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The Arcadia Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$6.2MAnimals$2.4MEducation$2.3MScience & Tech$1.3MHealth$1.3MReligion$784kEnvironment$492kHuman Services$316kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $682k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $745k
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$500,000
ELMWOOD PARK ZOO$300,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$164,524
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$125,000
GERMAN SOCIETY OF PA$75,000
NORRISTOWN NEW LIFE MENNONITE CHURC$70,000
DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY$60,000
NORRISTOWN YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATI$50,000
MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$50,000
JENKINS ARBORETUM GARDENS$50,000
RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION C$50,000
LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
THEATRE HORIZON$40,000
UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOAR$30,000
AARK WILDLIFE REHAB EDUCATION CENTE$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STONY CREEK ANGLERS: $8k → 7%KEN CREST CENTER: $5k → 7%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE INC: $2k → 22%GEMMA SERVICES: $10k → 7%STONY CREEK ANGLERS: $10k → 7%STONY CREEK ANGLERS: $8k → 7%STONY CREEK ANGLERS: $8k → 7%STONY CREEK ANGLERS: $8k → 7%UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOAR: $30k → 7%THE PHILADELPHIA PROTESTANT HOME: $82k → 22%PHILADELPHIA PROTESTANT HOME: $76k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $15k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $15k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 22%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $10k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 55 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
64

Total granted

$11M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

62%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +14%
  • NZ
    NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +201%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2019–2021 · $750k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2018 · $750k · revenue +8%
  • KC
    KIMMEL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +133%
  • WS
    WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
5
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
8
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment
11
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

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
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Street Theatre Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Evangelical and Reformed Historical. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHistoric Preservation Organ…Community Arts OrganizationsUniversity Research & Polic…Performing Arts CompaniesCharter and Independent Sch…Private Sports & Recreation…Early Childhood Education C…Affordable Housing ProvidersHospital Health Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr15%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr15%49%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
14%
2,460/18,167

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.

04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 146 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
50/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART - LIBRARY — $750,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART - LIBRARYTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCE — $550,000 · OtherTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCELANCASTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $325,000 · OtherJEFFERSON HOSPITAL — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENN SCHOOL OF NURSING — $250,000 · Other+86 more — $4,012,201 · Other+86 morePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $1,600,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $619,140 · Arts & CultureWOODMERE ART MUSEUMTHE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY — $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE C…KIMMEL CENTER INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INCWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORAT…PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $247,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIA…HISTORIC TRAPPE — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $717,300 · Arts & Culture+16 moreNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,325,000 · AnimalsNORRISTOWN ZOOL…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $750,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCI…DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $122,785 · AnimalsDELAWARE COUNTY…+1 more — $25,000 · AnimalsTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $625,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFER…PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $350,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA …DREXEL UNIVERSITY — $327,048 · EducationDREXEL UNIVER…ARCADIA UNIVERSITY — $226,000 · EducationARCADIA UNIVE…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $100,000 · Education+9 more — $262,500 · Education+9 moreTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA — $750,000 · Science & TechTHE PHILADELPHIA PROTESTANT HOME — $157,618 · Human ServicesSTONY CREEK ANGLERS — $67,500 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesUPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD — $30,000 · Human Services+5 more — $37,400 · Human ServicesJENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS — $190,000 · EnvironmentRIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER — $25,000 · EnvironmentThe Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education — $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $15,000 · Environment
Other$6,137,201Arts & Culture$4,283,440Animals$2,222,785Education$1,890,548Science & Tech$750,000Human Services$342,518Environment$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $1,600,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,325,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $750,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA — $750,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $625,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $619,140 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY — $450,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $350,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $327,048 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION — $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $247,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY — $226,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS — $190,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetEVANGELICAL AND REFORMED HISTORICAL — $160,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA PROTESTANT HOME — $157,618 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC TRAPPE — $150,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $122,785 over 3y, 1.2% of budget1812 PRODUCTIONS INC — $120,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetACT II PLAYHOUSE LTD — $105,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHEATRE HORIZON INC — $80,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE PATHWAY SCHOOL — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY — $75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTONY CREEK ANGLERS — $67,500 over 8y, 36% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR CREST COLLEGE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHWENKFELDER LIBRARY & HERITAGE CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY THEATER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetKENNETT LIBRARY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIndependence Seaport Museum — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAIRN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYRIC FEST — $45,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetDOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $39,258 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAYES MANOR — $38,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCatholic Social Services — $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD — $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWayne Art Center — $24,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetA STEP UP ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCRANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Connelly FoundationLindback Cr & Mf Foun…Child Development Fou…The Gordon Charter Fo…Independence Foundati…The Cigna Group Found…Genuardi Family Found…Hamilton Family Found…W W Smith Charitable …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA47.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arcadia 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Arcadia Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Arcadia Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 146 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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