· Private foundation
The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $714k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $884k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAD AND ROSES COMMUNITY FUND | $884,051 |
| THOMAS SCATTERGOOD BEHAVIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| PA DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE | $200,000 |
| GENDER JUSTICE FUND | $200,000 |
| CENTRO DE CLUTURA ARTE TRAGAJO Y EDUCACION (CCATE) | $200,000 |
| THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MODER PATSHALA | $50,000 |
| AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION | $50,000 |
| COALITION OF AFRICAN COMMUNITIES (AFRICOM) | $50,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA REGIONAL INSTITUE FOR STEM EDUCATORS (PRISE) | $50,000 |
| POWER AND INTERFAITH MOVEMENT | $40,000 |
| URBAN TREE CONNECTION | $30,000 |
| SHELTERED YOGA | $30,000 |
| SPIRAL Q PUPPET THEATER | $30,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $830k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2022, 50 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $669k 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
- PCPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC2× · 2020–2021 · $751k · revenue +29%
MIGHTY WRITERS2× · 2020–2021 · $127k · revenue +141%- AFAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION2× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- BABREAD AND ROSES COMM FUNDone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TSTHOMAS SCATTERGOOD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Education, arts and culture.
) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors
The Equity Project is committed to advancing racial equity through radical access. We believe every community has the right to transformative experiences creative spaces and the resources needed to reach our full potential. We build the…
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
To combat community deterioration and promote education.
Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.
Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.
At the equal justice center, our mission is to build a more accessible and equitable civil legal system. we strive to create pathways to just outcomes and to remove barriers for all philadelphians, by empowering every member of the…
Boldly leverage the power of the performing arts to catalyze social change, challenge bias, and create spaces for dialogue and understanding by presenting culturally diverse voices that celebrate and affirm our shared humanity.
The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians and the most unlike its peers is Gender Justice Fund. 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 17 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 135 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.
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- Who funds MODER PATSHALA ↗
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- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE ↗
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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 Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Allen Hilles Fund · The Barra Foundation Inc · Union Benevolent Association · Samuel S Fels Fund · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · Independence Foundation · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sheltered Yoga — 40% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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