· Private foundation
The Bff Friendship Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF JERRY SEGAL | $8,000 |
| KESHER ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE-PRE SCHOOOLKINDERGARTEN | $8,000 |
| CONGREGATION OR SHALOM | $8,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION OF CHESTER COUNTY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds ONE SIMPLE WISH INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S WAY ↗
- 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bff Friendship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bff Friendship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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