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The Albert Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k23 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $4,500 |
| SOUTH BRONX UNITED SOCCER CLUB | $3,000 |
| FRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| WHYY | $1,000 |
| AMBLER THEATER, INC. | $1,000 |
| PUT PEOPLE FIRST PA | $1,000 |
| SARATOGA CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES | $1,000 |
| WMHT | $1,000 |
| WAMC | $500 |
| WXPN 88.5 FM UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $500 |
| MOONCATCHER PROJECT | $500 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $114k · revenue +10%
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES2× · 2021–2022 · $51k · revenue +71%- BOBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +330%
Funded once
Philabundanceone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +0%- SLST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +52%
- MMMULENBERG MUSIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Pem offers thought-provoking experiences of the arts, humanities, and sciences to activate understanding of our shared humanity and to empower imagination and learning through experimentation. we steward, build, and make our collections…
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Community Ambulance Association of Ambler. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds AMBLER THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FRINGEARTS ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds Please Touch Museum ↗
- Who funds THE MOONCATCHER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION OF AMBLER ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund · The William Penn Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Nordlys Foundation · The University of the Arts · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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