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The Allen Hilles Fund
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $280k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JOUNCE PARTNERS INC | $15,000 |
| JOYFUL READERS INC | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS | $10,000 |
| PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED | $10,000 |
| NORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT INC | $10,000 |
| CODED BY KIDS | $10,000 |
| THE CLAY STUDIO | $10,000 |
| LIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY | $10,000 |
| THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| THE DREAM PROGRAM INC | $10,000 |
| MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k 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
- TPTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +21%
- CFChildren First PA6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +81%
- ASAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- PCPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +29%
- LELIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY (FKA PHILLY PARENT ORGANIZING PROJECT)one grant, 2022 · $11k
- PPPLAYWORKS PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2022 · $11k
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.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
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.
Horizons Greater Philadelphia advances educational equity by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools to create experiences outside of school that inspire the joy of learning.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
To combat community deterioration and promote education.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
Project 440 teaches young people how to use music as a pathway to forge opportunities for themselves and ignite change in their communities.
Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.
Education, arts and culture.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Up Philly and the most unlike its peers is John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library Inc. 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 26 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 178 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 FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Children First PA ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTEDLY ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE BOOKS ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE BARS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds NORTH10 PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Immigration Legal Services ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC FAIR HILL INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE PRINT CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOUNCE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENS LANE ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER HORIZON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds WEST PARK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
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 · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Ludwick Fdn · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · 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 Allen Hilles Fund 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.
- The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Rural Education Collaborative Inc — 43% of income from government
- Craftsbury Saplings Inc — 40% of income from government
- Northeast Kingdom Collaborative Inc — 19% of income from government
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation — 8% of income from government
- Craftsbury Community Care Center — 1% of income from government
- John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% 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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