· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Calkins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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 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
How this is measured
11 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. 11 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 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Calkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Calkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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