· Private foundation
The EFM Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k51 grants · $877k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saint John's Hospice | $50,000 |
| Holy Family Home | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Philabundance | $30,000 |
| Camden Catholic High School | $25,000 |
| The Pugs Foundation | $25,000 |
| Hands Together | $25,000 |
| The Gesu School | $25,000 |
| Saint Joseph's Preparaory School | $25,000 |
| Tunnels to Towers Foundation | $25,000 |
| Mindrulness Through Movement | $25,000 |
| Our House Ministries | $25,000 |
| Independence Mission Schools | $20,000 |
| Salvation Army | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $291k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% 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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA6× · 2020–2025 · $378k · revenue +88%
- SJSaint John's Hospice5× · 2020–2025 · $218k · revenue +28%
- SJSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $55k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2020 · $50k
- WAWomens's Auxiliary of ST Edmonds Homeone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
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.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint John's Hospice. 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 37 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 135 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 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Saint John's Hospice ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Hands Together Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS' HOME ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS ↗
- Who funds MINDFULNESS THROUGH MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
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: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Howley Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Patricia Kind Family 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 EFM 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.
- The Heart of Camden Inc — 41% 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.