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The Arcadia Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$50,000
NORRISTOWN YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATI$50,000
LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
JENKINS ARBORETUM GARDENS$50,000
RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION C$50,000
THEATRE HORIZON$40,000
SCHWENKFELDER LIBRARY HERITAGE CENT$30,000
UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOAR$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

+23%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENN SCHOOL OF NURSING
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • JH
    JEFFERSON HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Street Theatre Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
52/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENN SCHOOL OF NURSING: $250,000 · OtherJEFFERSON HOSPITAL: $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…WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORAT…KIMMEL CENTER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INCPHILADELPHIA 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $750,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $750,000 over 2y, 1.9% 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 budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 budgetMONTGOMERY THEATER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetKENNETT LIBRARY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAIRN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHWENKFELDER LIBRARY & HERITAGE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetIndependence Seaport Museum: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents: $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 budgetSCRANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetA STEP UP ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Arcadia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arcadia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 146 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home