· Private foundation
The EFM Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Philabundance | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Saint Joseph's Preparaory School | $25,000 |
| The Pugs Foundation | $25,000 |
| Tunnels to Towers Foundation | $25,000 |
| Mindrulness Through Movement | $25,000 |
| Camden Catholic High School | $25,000 |
| The Gesu School | $25,000 |
| Our House Ministries | $25,000 |
| Hands Together | $25,000 |
| The Gesu School | $20,000 |
| Hopeful Horizons | $20,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA6× · 2020–2025 · $378k · revenue +47%
- 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
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.
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…
How this is measured
52 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. 52 of the 134 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
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.
- 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 Hands Together Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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 THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MINDFULNESS THROUGH MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The EFM Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The EFM Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Heart of Camden Inc: 41% of income from government
How this is measured
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