· Public charity
The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc
Organized principally to make grants and provide financial support to other charitable organizations qualifying for exemption under 501(c)(3).
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law | $303,000 |
| National Museum of American Jewish History | $50,000 |
| National September 11 Memorial & Museum | $50,000 |
| Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund | $40,000 |
| Philadelphia Union Foundation | $35,000 |
| American Jewish Committee | $30,000 |
| American Heart Association | $30,000 |
| Posse Foundation | $30,000 |
| Champions of the Community | $30,000 |
| Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | $30,000 |
| Anti-Defamation League | $27,000 |
| Philadelphia Bar Foundation | $25,000 |
| Jewish National Fund | $25,000 |
| Access Justice Brooklyn | $25,000 |
| Presbyterian Senior Living | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $423k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 85% of The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 9%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
90 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 29 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2024 · $611k · revenue +29%
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education5× · 2019–2024 · $178k · revenue +1%
- SDSAMUEL D COZEN MEMORIAL FUND4× · 2019–2024 · $167k · revenue +191% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- TBTHE BURTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -63%
- CRCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL WORK STUDY PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +41%
- TQTHE QUEEN ELIZABETH II SEPTEMBER 11TH MEMORIAL GARDEN INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -81%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
212 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 212 of the 221 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Equal Justice Works · Future Standard Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridges from School to Work Inc: 33% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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