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The Calkins 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PENNSYLVANIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEW JERSEY PRESS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOONE AREA LIBRARY | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Calkins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2019 · $75k
- PNPENNSYLVANIA NEWSMEDIA ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +4%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2020–2021 · $25k
Funded once
- GPGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Associationone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +10%
- PUPHILADELPHIA UNION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +137%
- TCTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +92%
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 daily pennsylvanian exists to inform the penn community of relevant news and opinion while providing a training vehicle for students.
The library exists to provide free public library services for the needs of the residents of jersey shore and surrounding areas.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
We build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
Feeding pennsylvania is the partner state association of feeding america food banks. it is our mission to promote and aid our members in securing food and other resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity for their communities and…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…
To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.
Tri-state food bank, inc solicits, warehouses, and disburses donated and purchased food products to other not-for-profit entities in indiana, illinois, and kentucky.
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit philanthropic, educational organization operating in partnership with the national park service (nps) to preserve gettysburg national military park and the eisenhower national historic site, and to educate the…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of South Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pennsylvania Newsmedia Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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 PENNSYLVANIA NEWSMEDIA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOONE AREA LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Calkins 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.
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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