· Private foundation
The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k167 grants · $416k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $667k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $485k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES | $170,000 |
| THE ELLIS FOUNDATION | $140,114 |
| GEMMA SERVICES | $75,000 |
| CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF DELAWARE VAL | $50,000 |
| BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $32,000 |
| ACHIEVEABILITY | $30,000 |
| MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| WISSAHICKON VALLEY WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| ALONG THE WAY INC | $25,000 |
| THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TR | $25,000 |
| GWYNEDD-MERCY ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 22% 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
143 repeat relationships — 99 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 28 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- TETHE ELLIS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +66%
- WCWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES7× · 2017–2024 · $993k · revenue +64%
- MUMINERVA UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2022 · $750k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1%
- BHBOLD HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +80%
- PFPHILADELPHIALEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -55%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Loss and Bereavement and the most unlike its peers is Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
233 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. 233 of the 285 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ELLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds MINERVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Gemma Services ↗
- Who funds THE MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOMENS WAY ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEABILITY ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Southeastern Suburban PA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REGINA COELI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Starfinder Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Whitemarsh Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NETWORK GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Friends of Briar Bush ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE WYNDCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMP TECUMSEH INC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds J WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds BUCKS-MONT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PHOEBE-DEVITT HOMES ↗
- Who funds Why Not Prosper 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 · 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
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 Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable 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.
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Williams 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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