· Private foundation
The Catherwood Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $165,000 |
| WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST | $44,000 |
| MONTGOMERY SCHOOL ANNUAL GIVING | $18,200 |
| EASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA | $14,000 |
| PEOPLE'S LIGHT AND THEATER | $14,000 |
| STILLWATER MUSIC | $10,313 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $10,313 |
| PARKERS ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,312 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAPLATA | $10,312 |
| ST JAMES SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $6,000 |
| PA STATE SOCIETYCHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $5,000 |
| ST DAVIDS CHURCH | $4,000 |
| CEDARCREST | $4,000 |
| SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- WCWillistown Conservation Trust Inc2× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +60%
- TPTHE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY6× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +25%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC4× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BMBRYN MAWR HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $1k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2022 · $1k
WHYY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +27%
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.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
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
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Valentine Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 72 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 THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Parker's Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds Radnor Outreach & Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds LUDINGTON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEUR WORKS FUND ↗
- Who funds Beyond Literacy ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds SQUASHSMARTS 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Honickman Foundation · The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Independence Foundation
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 Catherwood 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rollins College — 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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