· Private foundation
The Curaterra Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $332k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASHOKA | $102,500 |
| ASYLUM PRIDE HOUSE | $69,120 |
| BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA | $60,000 |
| RODALE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| PHILLYSAFE | $25,000 |
| BROAD STREET MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY DBA LUTHERAN SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $10,000 |
| PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO HOUSING | $5,000 |
| DONORSCHOOSE ORG | $4,996 |
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 (FY18–22, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Curaterra Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 55% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k 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
- PPPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $410k · revenue +431%
- OAONE ACRE FUND4× · 2017–2020 · $350k · revenue +153%
- DUDEPAUL USA INC3× · 2017–2021 · $175k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- HSHELP SOCIAL SERVICES CORPone grant, 2019 · $146k
- RORegenerative Organic Alliancegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +53%
- PHPROJECT HOMEone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -13%
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.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
Driving change from the ground up, the urban affairs coalition (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging…
See schedule o.pidc-ldc administers, as a subrecipient of the city of philadelphia, various federally funded grant programs, including community development block grants, housing and urban development loans, and economic development…
Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathways to Housing - Pa and the most unlike its peers is Asylum Pride House. 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 26 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 36 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
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 PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds PHILLYSAFE ↗
- Who funds Regenerative Organic Alliance ↗
- Who funds Asylum Pride House ↗
- Who funds BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds ROOT CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS PA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPITCH ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION 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 · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Van Ameringen Foundation Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Cannuscio Rader Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · The William Penn Foundation
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 Curaterra Foundation 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.
- Root Capital Inc — 9% 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.