· Private foundation
The Bff Friendship Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION OF CHESTER COUNTY | $8,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JERRY SEGAL | $8,000 |
| KESHER ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE-PRE SCHOOOLKINDERGARTEN | $8,000 |
| CONGREGATION OR SHALOM | $8,000 |
| BOOKTRUST | $7,000 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $6,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| PLANT A SEED INSPIRE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ONE SIMPLE WISH | $4,000 |
| DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM | $3,000 |
| MICHAEL'S WAY | $2,500 |
| HAPPINESS IS CAMPING | $2,000 |
| A BETTER CHANCE | $2,000 |
| TREDYFFRIN AND EASTTOWN CARE | $1,000 |
| BERWYN-PAOLI AREA LITTLE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BTBOOK TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +20%
ONE SIMPLE WISH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +247%- DBDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +416%
Funded once
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +228%
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.
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,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Vision A world without childhood brain tumors. Mission Care. Cure. Thrive.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Chance for life's mission is to raise awareness and funds for critical research and clinical trials for pediatric cancer in the united states of america.
The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-atlantic creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
The make-a-wish foundation of philadephia, delaware & susquehanna valley creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Beyond celiac unites with patients and partners to drive diagnosis, advance research, and accelerate the discovery of new treatments and a cure.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Beyond Breast Cancer and the most unlike its peers is Tredyffrin & Easttown Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds ONE SIMPLE WISH INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S WAY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPINESS IS CAMPING ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds TREDYFFRIN & EASTTOWN CARE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds Berwyn-Paoli Area Little League Inc ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Bff Friendship 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.