Pennsylvania · Community foundation
The Community's Foundation
To connect volunteeers and donors to support grants, programs, and scholarships that change lives in the Delaware County, Pennsylvania region.
- $863k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $164k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Community's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $164k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $178k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $162k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $118k | 70% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $170k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $181k | 69% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $59k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vest-A-Cop Foundation | $70,843 | 2 | 75% |
| Chester Upland Youth Soccer | $68,751 | 7 | 13% |
| Eagles Autism Challenge Inc | $61,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County Inc | $59,520 | 3 | 1% |
| Casa Youth Advocates Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Support Line of Delaware County Inc | $53,588 | 3 | 3% |
| County of Delaware | $46,547 | 4 | n/a |
| Senior Community Services Inc | $46,478 | 5 | 1% |
| Community Action Agency of Delaware County Inc | $37,470 | 4 | 0% |
| Wesley House Community Corporation | $31,000 | 1 | 5% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Community's Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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: Foundation for Delaware County · The Philadelphia Foundation · Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Philabundance · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Mitzvah Circle Foundation · Independence Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Community's Foundation
- How much does The Community's Foundation give?
- The Community's Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $164,283, out of $863,191 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Community's Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Education (13%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
- Who are The Community's Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vest-A-Cop Foundation ($71k), Chester Upland Youth Soccer ($69k), Eagles Autism Challenge Inc ($61k).
- Does The Community's Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Community's Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for Delaware County, The Philadelphia Foundation, Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw.
- Where is The Community's Foundation based?
- The Community's Foundation is based in PA.
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