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The Bathon Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$162kReligion$133kYouth Development$28kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$5kArts & Culture$4kHuman Services$3kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$286k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Longwood Gardens$10,200
Salesianum School$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Delaware Museum of Natural History: $1k → 10%Longwood Gardens: $10k → 6%Greater Philadelphia Church of Christ: $110k → 7%Delware County Christian School: $1k → 10%Greater Philadelphia Church of Christ: $10k → 22%Antelope Valley Church: $5k → 14%Our Foundation: $1k → 14%Camp Swamp: $7k → 14%SUSAN KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%St Joseph's Health Foundation: $1k → 12%Mark and Susan Shelton: $3k → 12%Delaware Museum of Natural History: $2k → 10%Hope for Kids: $20k → 7%Greater Philadelphia Church of Christ: $7k → 22%Delaware Museum of Natural History: $1k → 10%Hope for Kids: $5k → 7%Salesianum School: $150k → 10%Salesianum School: $8k → 10%Reach Riverside: $5k → 10%Salesianum School: $1k → 10%Salesianum School: $1k → 10%SALESIANUM SCHOOL: $500 → 10%Boys and Girls Club of DE: $3k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DE
GA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$317k · 4 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$317k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+114%

Still filing today

50%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Youth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SS
    SALESIANUM SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $161k
  • GP
    GREATER PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $128k
  • HF
    HOPE FOR KIDS INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • RR
    REACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -32%
  • AV
    ANTELOPE VALLEY CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALESIANUM SCHOOL INC: $160,500 · OtherSALESIANUM SCHOOL INCGREATER PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF CHRIST INC: $127,617 · OtherGREATER PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF CHRIST INC+8 more: $24,280 · Other+8 moreHOPE FOR KIDS INC: $25,125 · Youth DevelopmentLONGWOOD GARDENS INC: $10,200 · PhilanthropyREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterDELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $1,000 · Education
Other$312,397Youth Development$25,125Philanthropy$10,200Housing & Shelter$5,000Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE FOR KIDS INC: $25,125 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLONGWOOD GARDENS INC: $10,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC: $4,030 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds HOPE FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗

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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bathon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bathon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Reach Riverside Development Corp: 100% of income from government
  • Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 14 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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