· Private foundation
The Elmer R Deaver Foundation Idt
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN UNIVERSITY | $120,464 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $42,340 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $37,878 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $35,586 |
| SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY | $31,800 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $30,116 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $30,116 |
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $27,971 |
| SAINT JOSEPHS UNIVERSITY | $23,238 |
| IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY | $21,650 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $18,520 |
| WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY | $18,135 |
| OPERATION WARM INC | $18,000 |
| SHARING EXCESS | $17,463 |
| BROAD STREET MINISTRY | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $346k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 19 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k 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
- LULINCOLN UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $824k · revenue +44%
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education7× · 2019–2025 · $206k · revenue +1%
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC7× · 2019–2025 · $206k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINone grant, 2024 · $328k
- CFCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2019 · $260k
- PIPRATT INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF ARCH FBOone grant, 2022 · $57k
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.
Pathways to housing pa empowers people with disabilities to improve their housing stability, achieve better health, and reclaim their lives.
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…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
Dignity Housing's mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty that confronts low-income families and individuals in the City of Philadelphia.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Summary
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance and the most unlike its peers is Gentle Gratitude. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 86 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 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HOPEPHL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMANGOOD PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING ↗
- Who funds BAKER INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
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: W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Union Benevolent Association · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly 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 Elmer R Deaver Foundation Idt 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.
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.