Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Arcadia Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations The Arcadia Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $784k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $2.2M | 47% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $1.6M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $1.6M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $1.3M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $1.8M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $1.8M | 77% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $1.7M | 70% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $1.5M | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $1,600,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Norristown Zoological Society | $1,325,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | $750,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Zoological Society of Philadelphia | $750,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $625,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Woodmere Art Museum | $619,140 | 2 | 12% |
| The People's Light & Theatre Company | $450,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | $350,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Drexel University | $327,048 | 2 | 0% |
| Lancaster Theological Seminary | $325,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Arcadia Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Child Development Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About The Arcadia Foundation
- How much does The Arcadia Foundation give?
- The Arcadia Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $2,244,015 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Arcadia Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Animals (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Arcadia Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Philadelphia Museum of Art ($1.6M), Norristown Zoological Society ($1.3M), The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ($750k).
- Does The Arcadia Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Arcadia Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Arcadia Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.
- Where is The Arcadia Foundation based?
- The Arcadia Foundation is based in PA.
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