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The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
112
Grants FY2025
127
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
32 to 134
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$43M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving74$1.4M18%
FY2024127$1.6M22%
FY2023127$1.7M21%
FY2022121$2.0M23%
FY2021134$2.0M34%
FY2020112$1.5M41%
FY201990$1.0M81%
FY201732$46kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.7MEnvironment$832kHuman Services$818kYouth Development$551kCommunity Improvement$525kArts & Culture$362kHousing & Shelter$226kRecreation & Sports$211kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 263 grantees
All grantees of The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Ellis Foundation$1,240,00077%
Williamson College of the Trades$1,168,44481%
Minerva University$750,00022%
Gemma Services$604,50080%
The Meadowbrook School$424,50082%
The Public School of Germantown$333,00070%
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc$330,25073%
Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust$312,64764%
Bucks County Opportunity Council Inc$288,35071%
Community Partnership School$247,00061%
Travis Manion Foundation$210,00070%
Achieveability$207,92164%
Academy in Manayunk$202,50040%
Womens Way$190,00054%
The Bucks County Historical Society Inc$182,00071%
Philadelphia Outward Bound Center$179,25071%
Ed Snider Youth Hockey & Education$178,35171%
Girls on the Run of Southeastern Suburban PA$178,10078%
Starfinder Foundation$145,00073%
Gwynedd-Mercy Academy$145,0006n/a
Regina Coeli Academy$143,60062%
Squashsmarts Inc$143,00071%
Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia$139,50070%
The Whitemarsh Foundation$132,500610%
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia$130,00064%
Women's Resource Center of the Delaware Valley$112,20669%
Young Life$110,50070%
Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School$100,00050%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$98,50050%
Friends Council on Education$85,00026%
Friends of Briar Bush$83,00067%
The Wyndcroft School$82,00070%
J Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship Trust$78,60081%
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Association$76,50051%
Camp Tecumseh Inc$74,00071%
Mid-Atlantic Christian Ministries$71,500711%
Bucks-Mont Collaborative$66,00068%
Why Not Prosper Inc$60,00062%
Bucks County Choral Society$57,00075%
Phoebe-Devitt Homes$56,00070%
Vanderbilt University$52,00070%
Bucknell University$51,00070%
Committee of Seventy$43,50060%
Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation$42,50061%
Tricounty Community Network Inc$42,00053%
Lasalle College High School$41,1608n/a
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy$40,00040%
County Theater Inc$40,00033%
Settlement Music School of Philadelphia$40,00020%
Mount Saint Joseph Academy$39,9458n/a
Center School$37,00060%
Ambler Theater Inc$31,26051%
New Life Presbyterian Church of Glenside$29,5946n/a
Liberty Lutheran Services$28,50070%
Along the Way$26,00012%
Every Good Gift$25,20043%
Pennsylvania Cpa Foundation$22,50041%
All Hallows Episcopal Church$21,0003n/a
Archbishop Ryan High School$20,0006n/a
Bowdoin College$18,50070%
Philadelphia Union Foundation$17,50031%
Vita Education Services Inc$17,50050%
North Penn Valley Boys and Girls Club Inc$16,50030%
Mattie N Dixon Community Cupboard Inc$16,50030%
Family Promise Montco Pa$16,06570%
The Sharing Foundation$16,00070%
North Dakota Museum of Art$15,00030%
Lgbt Elder Initiative$15,00025%
Carroll County Ymcacamp Huckins$15,00050%
Horizons Greater Philadelphia Inc$15,00012%
Friends of the Cynwyd Trail Inc$15,00037%
Seachange Capital Partners Inc$15,0001n/a
St Marthas Roman Catholic Church$14,5005n/a
B Inspired Philadelphia Inc$14,00033%
Act II Playhouse Ltd$14,00051%
Juniata College$14,00070%
The Friends of Upper Dublin Public Library$13,40036%
Turning Points for Children$13,20050%
Norristown Zoological Society$12,90020%
Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission$12,50020%
Community Volunteers in Medicine$12,40040%
Open Hearth Inc$12,00050%
Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia$11,00011%
Heights Philadelphia$11,00030%
Life Turning Point of Philadelphia$11,00022%
Artwell Collaborative Inc$10,00011%
Metropolitan Area Platform Tennis Association$10,00023%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region$10,00010%
St Thomas Church Whitemarsh$9,0007n/a
Riverwood Therapeutic Riding Center$9,00060%
Building a Bridge to Uganda$9,00051%
Chincoteague Island Library Inc$8,90043%
The Giving Tree$8,71422%
The Girls Friendly Society in the Diocese of Pennsylvania$8,0004n/a
Chincoteague Island Arts Org Inc$7,00043%
The Robert James Leonard Foundation Inc$7,00026%
The First Tee of Greater Philadelphia Inc$7,00020%
Haverford School$6,50020%
Mary Mother of the Redeemer$6,2404n/a
Bold Hope Inc$6,20010%
Phoenixville Area Community Services$6,00030%
The Junior League of Philadelphia Inc$6,00060%
Mercy Vocational High School Sisters of Mercy$6,0003n/a
Christian Legal Clinics of Philadelphia Inc$6,00011%
Philadelphialeadership Foundation Inc$6,00017%
Wyncote Church Home$6,00060%
The Navigators$5,1605n/a
Montgomery County Community College Foundation$5,00010%
James a Michener Art Museum$5,0001n/a
Larimore Community and Historical Association$5,000134%
BUDZYNSKI BALLET THEATER INC co Kim Walters$5,0001n/a
Reading Allowed$5,0001n/a
Mitzvah Circle Foundation$5,0001n/a
Heroic Gardens$5,00013%
Philanthropitch$5,00010%
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey$5,00020%
Brighter Horizon Foundation$5,00011%
Founding Forward (Formerly the Union League Legacy Foundation)$4,80040%
The Center for Loss and Bereavement$4,50040%
The Philadelphia Education Fund$4,50020%
Cradle of Hope Inc$4,25050%
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society$4,00020%
The City School$4,00010%
Newtown Rock Softball Association$4,00040%
Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund$3,70020%
ALS Hope Foundation$3,50021%
Urbanpromise International$3,50010%
Philabundance$3,50010%
Bruckner Chase Ocean Positive Inc$3,45021%
Friends of Father Judge High School Inc$3,00010%
Solebury School$3,00010%
The Trustees of the Smith College$3,00020%
Generation Life$3,00021%
Center for Aquatic Sciences$2,90040%
Vassar College$2,80010%
Jevs Human Services$2,50010%
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc$2,50040%
General Council on Finance & Admins of the United$2,5001n/a
Museum of Chincoteague Island Inc$2,50010%
Brave Hearts for Strong Minds$2,50017%
Vetri Foundation for Children$2,50020%
Katie Samson Foundation Inc$2,50012%
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Rebuilding Together Philadelphia$2,47620%
National Youth Science Foundation Inc$2,00010%
North American Lutheran Church$2,0001n/a
A Woman's Place$2,00010%
Suitup Incorporated$2,00010%
Bridge of Hope Inc$2,00010%
Trellis for Tomorrow$2,00010%
Upper Dublin Citizen Emergency Fund$2,00017%
Overbrook School for the Blind$2,00020%
Mighty Writers$2,00040%
Roxborough Christian School$2,0001n/a
Main Line Animal Rescue Inc$1,60930%
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia$1,50010%
Caring for Friends$1,50010%
Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc$1,40060%
Niagara University$1,30070%
Water Street Ministries$1,00010%
Suite Dreams$1,0001n/a
1812 Productions Inc$1,00010%
Lower Merion Township Scholarship Fund$1,00010%
Harvest USA$1,00010%
Beyond Literacy$1,00020%
Resources for Human Development Inc$1,00010%
Abington Health Foundation$1,00020%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$1,0001n/a
CureGrin Foundation$1,00010%
Systemic Reformative Change Foundation$1,0001n/a
National Society of the Daughters of the American$1,0001n/a
The Innocence Project Inc$1,00010%
Uatx$1,00010%
Laymen's Retreat League$1,0001n/a
Saint Joseph Villa$1,00010%
Veterans Monument Foundation of Whitemarsh$1,00011%
Washington Memorial Heritage$1,00010%
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia Inc$1,00010%
WPLL Foundation Inc$1,00013%
Upper Dublin Education Foundation$90040%
Breakthrough T1d$83020%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$80820%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$80010%
Chester County Food Bank$80010%
University of Saint Katherine$80040%
Trustees of Boston College$60010%
The Campaign Legal Center Inc$60010%
Upper Moreland Youth and Drug Council Inc$60010%
University of Mary Washington Foundation$60030%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation$57520%
Pennsylvania State University$5151n/a
Missio Theological Seminary$50010%
Springfield Township Education Foundation$5001n/a
Breakthrough Bike Challenge$50010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50010%
Independence Mission Schools$50010%
Williams College$50010%
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc$50010%
Theatre Philadelphia$50010%
Life Rolls on Foundation$50010%
Bryn Mawr College$50010%
Doc Wayne Inc$50010%
Queen of Angels Regional Catholic School$5001n/a
Whitemarsh Continuing Care Retirement Community$50010%
Clean Air Council$5001n/a
The Center for Election Innovation & Research$50010%
Els for Autism Foundation$50010%
National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$50010%
Upper Dublin Junior Athletic Association$50010%
Jefferson Health - Northeast$50010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$40020%
Manna on Main Street$40010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$40010%
One Family Fund$40010%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$40010%
St Josephs Preparatory School$4002n/a
Rochester Institute of Technology$40020%
American Cancer Society Inc$40010%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$37510%
Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc$37510%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$37510%
Civic News Company$36010%
Maccabi USA Inc$36010%
Upper Dublin High School Water Polo Team Booster Club$3001n/a
Women Against Abuse Inc$30010%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$30010%
Montgomery Township Baseball & Softball Association$27510%
Children's Miracle Network$27010%
Spotlight Pa$25810%
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution$25010%
InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA$25010%
The University of the Arts$25010%
Towamencin Swim Team Inc$25011%
The Philadelphia Citizen$25010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$24010%
Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia$22610%
Unrwa USA National Committee Inc$21110%
Asian Law Caucus$20610%
Equal Justice Initiative$20610%
American Lung Association$2001n/a
Community Learning Center$20010%
The Phoenixville Jaycees Foundation$20010%
Voice of the Martyrs Inc$2001n/a
Radnor Historical Society$20010%
Discover Lansdale$20010%
Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia$20010%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$20010%
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc$20010%
Phoenix Animal Rescue$20010%
Autism Cares Foundation$20010%
Manna Food Bank Inc$20010%
Sandy Paws Rescue Inc$20010%
Meadowood Corporation$20010%
Westminster Theological Seminary$20010%
Bethesda Project$20010%
Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc$20010%
From The Heart Productions$20010%
Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa$20010%
Youth Services Managers Inc$20010%
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc$20010%
Fort Washington Fire Company No 1$20010%
Community Ambulance Association of Ambler$11010%
Tenacity Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($526k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Ellis Foundation: $1,240,000 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetWilliamson College of the Trades: $1,168,444 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetMinerva University: $750,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGemma Services: $604,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe Meadowbrook School: $424,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetThe Public School of Germantown: $333,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc: $330,250 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetPennypack Ecological Restoration Trust: $312,647 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBucks County Opportunity Council Inc: $288,350 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Partnership School: $247,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $210,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAchieveability: $207,921 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetAcademy in Manayunk: $202,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWomens Way: $190,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetThe Bucks County Historical Society Inc: $182,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetPhiladelphia Outward Bound Center: $179,250 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetEd Snider Youth Hockey & Education: $178,351 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGirls on the Run of Southeastern Suburban PA: $178,100 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetStarfinder Foundation: $145,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetRegina Coeli Academy: $143,600 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSquashsmarts Inc: $143,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia: $139,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Whitemarsh Foundation: $132,500 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetPhilanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia: $130,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetWomen's Resource Center of the Delaware Valley: $112,206 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetYoung Life: $110,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCristo Rey Philadelphia High School: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $98,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Council on Education: $85,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetFriends of Briar Bush: $83,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetThe Wyndcroft School: $82,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJ Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship Trust: $78,600 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve Association: $76,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCamp Tecumseh Inc: $74,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMid-Atlantic Christian Ministries: $71,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetBucks-Mont Collaborative: $66,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBucks County Choral Society: $57,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetPhoebe-Devitt Homes: $56,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University: $52,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $51,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee of Seventy: $43,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFamilies Behind the Badge Children's Foundation: $42,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTricounty Community Network Inc: $42,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSpringside Chestnut Hill Academy: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCounty Theater Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSettlement Music School of Philadelphia: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCenter School: $37,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA85.1× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Cigna Group Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable

How much does The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable give?
The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable reported 112 grants totaling $1,942,951 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 134 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Environment (8%), Human Services (8%).
Who are The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Ellis Foundation ($1.2M), Williamson College of the Trades ($1.2M), Minerva University ($750k).
Does The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Connelly Foundation, The William Penn Foundation.
Where is The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable based?
The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB Charitable is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 299 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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