Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Cigna Group Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $14M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4,075
- Grants FY2024
- 1,147
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $540,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 622 to 1,179
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $127M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Cigna Group Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1,186 | $13M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 1,147 | $15M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 1,179 | $16M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 1,078 | $16M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 893 | $40M | 52% |
| FY2019 | 622 | $10M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | $804,872 | 6 | 3% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $713,499 | 6 | 0% |
| Arogya Inc Dba Arogya World | $484,555 | 5 | 24% |
| YMCA of the Roses | $333,333 | 1 | 2% |
| Back on My Feet | $317,676 | 4 | 2% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $298,998 | 6 | 0% |
| Maternity Care Coalition | $298,570 | 3 | 1% |
| Oasis Center Inc | $296,105 | 3 | n/a |
| The Brashear Association Inc | $227,725 | 3 | 11% |
| Urban League of Greater Philadelphia | $211,725 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 179 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1,817 recipients with no EIN on record ($102M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Cigna Group Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 154 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Independence Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Cigna Group Foundation
- How much does The Cigna Group Foundation give?
- The Cigna Group Foundation reported 4,075 grants totaling $14,097,258 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 622 and 1,179 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Cigna Group Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (19%), Education (13%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are The Cigna Group Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Blessings in a Backpack Inc ($805k), American Heart Association Inc ($713k), Arogya Inc Dba Arogya World ($485k).
- Does The Cigna Group Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cigna Group Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cigna Group Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
- Where is The Cigna Group Foundation based?
- The Cigna Group Foundation is based in PA.
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