· Private foundation
The Dansko Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $6,125 |
| NEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER | $4,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $3,625 |
| PAWS FOR LIFE | $3,000 |
| AVON GROVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE | $2,419 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $1,405 |
| OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES | $956 |
| Individual grant recipient | $642 |
| OXFORD MUSIC BOOSTERS | $564 |
| STROUD RESEARCH CENTER | $403 |
| MARC VETTORI OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES FOOD PANTRY | $393 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TROOP 87 | $289 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $239 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $146 |
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 (FY17–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 8 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- YOYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE5× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +4%
- YYOUNGMOMS5× · 2017–2023 · $19k · revenue +102%
- KAKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE4× · 2019–2023 · $15k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- OWOXFORD WRESTLING ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $17k
- OAOXFORD AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT OHS BASEBALLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TTTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -19%
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.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty
Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.
The mission of animal care pa is to help caring people help animals by bridging the gap through our animal welfare initiatives that feed, care and educate.
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley and the most unlike its peers is Sonshine Children Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 157 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 CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE ↗
- Who funds YOUNGMOMS ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds AVON GROVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Wings for Success Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFORD MAINSTREET INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DREAMCATCHER ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · The Oxford Area Foundation · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · United Way of Southern Chester County · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Chester County Food Bank · Agilent Technologies 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 Dansko Foundation Inc 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.
- Reach Riverside Development Corp — 100% of income from government
- Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.
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