Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The EFM Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $927k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 64
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The EFM Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 49 | $927k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $884k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $792k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $841k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $952k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $807k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia | $377,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Saint John's Hospice | $217,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Saint Joseph's University | $178,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Our House Ministries Inc | $168,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Project Home | $166,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Philabundance | $165,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School | $145,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hands Together Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pugs Foundation | $120,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The EFM Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The EFM Foundation
- How much does The EFM Foundation give?
- The EFM Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $927,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 64 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The EFM Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (13%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are The EFM Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Little Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia ($378k), Saint John's Hospice ($218k), Saint Joseph's University ($178k).
- Does The EFM Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The EFM Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The EFM Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, The Philadelphia Foundation, Connelly Foundation.
- Where is The EFM Foundation based?
- The EFM Foundation is based in PA.
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