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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$249kEducation$135kHousing & Shelter$110kHealth$87kRecreation & Sports$74kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kCivil Rights$63kFood & Nutrition$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $164,283, the rows itemized in this filing. The $863,191 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $698,908 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Casa Youth Advocates$35,000
Senior Community Services$19,100
Chester Eastside$12,167
Del County Literacy Council$10,500
Comm Action Agency of Delco$9,000
Chester Upland Youth Soccer$8,650
Caring for Friends$8,250
Open Door Abuse Awareness$8,000
St Katherine Drexel Parish$7,500
Musicopia$6,500
Del Cty Workforce Dev Bd$6,000
Trinity Transitional House$5,750
The Wardrobe$5,750
Domestic Abuse Project Delco$5,750
Family Support Line of Delco$5,700
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Access: $7k → 6%Mitzvah Circle Foundation: $15k → 7%Centro de Apoyo Comunitano: $6k → 10%Senior Community Services: $19k → 10%Senior Community Services: $8k → 10%Senior Community Services: $7k → 10%Senior Community Services: $7k → 10%Domestic Abuse Project of Delco: $43k → 10%Family Support Line: $43k → 10%Pathways PA: $25k → 10%Domestic Abuse Project of Delco: $11k → 10%Valley Youth House: $10k → 10%Family & Community Svcs of Delco: $7k → 10%Domestic Abuse Project Delco: $6k → 10%Family Support Line of Delco: $6k → 10%Family Support Line: $5k → 10%Senior Community Svcs: $5k → 10%Family & Community Svcs of Delco: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$695k · 19 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
26

Total granted

$695k
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+34%

Still filing today

89%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CU
    CHESTER UPLAND YOUTH SOCCER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $69k · revenue +117%
  • EA
    EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $61k · revenue +95%
  • DA
    Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • WH
    WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +45%
  • MA
    MAKING A CHANGE GROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +128%
  • DC
    DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue +22%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
3
Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware

To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
4
Domestic Violence Center of Chester County

THE MISSION OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY IS TO REDUCE domestic violence by supporting survivors and advancing prevention strategies.

Human Services
5
Delaware Center for Justice

The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.

Crime & Legal
6
Crime Victims' Center of Chester County

The crime victims' center of chester county, inc. (cvc) is a nonprofit agency providing free, immediate, and confidential crisis response and compassionate support to children and adults impacted by sexual violence and all other crime. we…

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7
Women Against Abuse Legal Center

The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal
8
Community Dispute Settlement Program of Delaware County Inc

The organization provides alternative dispute resolution services through delaware and chester counties.

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9
Fayette County Community Action Agency Inc

To provide programs that will enable low income individuals to attain the necessary skills, knowledge, and motivation needed to become self-sufficient.

Human Services
10
Center for Victims

Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…

Human Services
11
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
12
Child Inc

To be the leading advocate for delaware's children. we provide creative prevention and treatment programs that meet the changing needs of families. we serve dependent, neglected, and abused children and their parents. we provide programs…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware County Victim Assistance Center; the most unlike its peers is Rose Valley Chorus and Orchestra. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County Inc: $59,520 · Human ServicesDomestic Abuse Project of De…FAMILY SUPPORT LINE OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $53,588 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPORT LINE OF DELAW…SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $46,478 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES IN…CHESTER EASTSIDE INC: $28,884 · Human ServicesCHESTER EASTSIDE INCPATHWAYS PA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS PA INCMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATIONFAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $11,986 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $9,700 · Human Services+3 more: $21,067 · Human Services+3 moreCOUNTY OF DELAWARE: $46,547 · OtherCOUNTY OF DELAWAREDELAWARE COUNTY VICTIM ASSISTANCE CENTER: $25,700 · OtherDELAWARE COUNTY VICTIM ASSISTANCE CENTE…WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $20,625 · OtherWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE…Salvation Army Montachusett A: $15,443 · OtherRIDLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15,136 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $37,470 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF DELAWARE COU…LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF DELAWARE COUNTY PA: $26,801 · OtherLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF DELAWARE COUNTY P…WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $31,000 · OtherWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CORPORATIONCARING FOR FRIENDS: $15,583 · OtherTHE JOHN J TYLER ARBORETUM: $15,500 · Other+17 more: $120,023 · Other+17 moreDELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $29,100 · EducationDELAWARE CO…DELAWARE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL: $28,000 · EducationDELAWARE CO…INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP EDUCATION ADVA: $15,250 · EducationINSTITUTE F…ANDREW L HICKS JR FOUNDATION: $14,500 · EducationANDREW L HI…PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $12,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANI…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,500 · EducationTemple Univ…CHESTER UPLAND YOUTH SOCCER: $68,751 · Youth DevelopmentCHESTER UPL…MAKING A CHANGE GROUP: $30,200 · Youth DevelopmentMAKING A CH…OPEN DOOR ABUSE AWARENESS PREVENTION: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPEN DOOR A…EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $61,100 · HealthMaternity Care Coalition: $15,000 · HealthVEST-A-COP FOUNDATION: $70,843 · Crime & LegalCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $55,000 · Civil RightsAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $12,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$271,223Other$369,828Education$109,350Youth Development$106,951Health$76,100Crime & Legal$70,843Civil Rights$67,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVEST-A-COP FOUNDATION: $70,843 over 2y, 75% of budgetCHESTER UPLAND YOUTH SOCCER: $68,751 over 7y, 13% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $61,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDomestic Abuse Project of Delaware County Inc: $59,520 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT LINE OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $53,588 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $46,478 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $37,470 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $31,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMAKING A CHANGE GROUP: $30,200 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $29,100 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHESTER EASTSIDE INC: $28,884 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL: $28,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION OF DELAWARE COUNTY PA: $26,801 over 4y, 28% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY VICTIM ASSISTANCE CENTER: $25,700 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPATHWAYS PA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $20,625 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCARING FOR FRIENDS: $15,583 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN J TYLER ARBORETUM: $15,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP EDUCATION ADVA: $15,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANDREW L HICKS JR FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $11,986 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $9,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Josephs Family Hope Center: $8,870 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $8,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMURPHYS GIVING MARKET INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOPEN DOOR ABUSE AWARENESS PREVENTION: $8,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA COMMUNITY CENTER ESTABLISHED BY THE SURGENT FAMILY FOR SOCIETY: $6,667 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO DE APOYO COMUNITARIO: $6,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTRINITY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE INC: $5,750 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHE CAREER WARDROBE: $5,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANDID: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRose Valley Chorus and Orchestra: $5,459 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $5,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,333 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTEACHERS' TEAMMATES INC: $4,295 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Foundation for Delawa…The Philadelphia Foun…Ethel S C Smith No 5 …United Way of Greater…Connelly FoundationW W Smith Charitable …The Gordon Charter Fo…PhilabundanceHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Wsfs Cares FoundationMitzvah Circle Founda…Independence Foundati…
Foundation for Delaware CountyPA59.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Community's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Community's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Community's Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Community's Foundation 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.

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 52 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 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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