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The Elmer R Deaver Foundation Idt

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$602k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$3.3MHuman Services$312kFood & Nutrition$150kHousing & Shelter$105kEmployment$70kCrime & Legal$48kYouth Development$35kHealth$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY$120,464
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$42,340
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$37,878
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$35,586
SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY$31,800
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$30,116
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BABY BUREAU: $5k → 6%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $10k → 7%OPERATION WARM INC: $18k → 10%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $15k → 18%BABY BUREAU: $5k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $13k → 10%BABY BUREAU: $4k → 6%HUMANGOOD PENNSYLVANIA: $20k → 7%OPERATION WARM INC: $10k → 10%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $5k → 7%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $10k → 6%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $12k → 22%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTERY COUNTY: $10k → 6%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 22%Project Home: $15k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $15k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $15k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $10k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $10k → 22%Jewish Family & Children's Services: $10k → 22%HOPE PHL: $15k → 22%PEOPLES EMERGENCY CENTER: $15k → 22%Peoples Emergency Center: $10k → 22%FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%PEOPLES EMERGENCY CENTER: $10k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $15k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $15k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $11k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $10k → 22%Broad Street Ministry: $9k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 28 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
39

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+1%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LU
    LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $824k · revenue +44%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    7× · 2019–2025 · $206k · revenue +1%
  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $206k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMIN
    one grant, 2024 · $328k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2019 · $260k
  • PI
    PRATT INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF ARCH FBO
    one grant, 2022 · $57k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pathways to Housing - Pa

Pathways to housing pa empowers people with disabilities to improve their housing stability, achieve better health, and reclaim their lives.

Housing & Shelter
2
Urban Affairs Coalition

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…

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3
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
4
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
5
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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…

Education
7
Urban League of Greater Philadelphia

The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

—
8
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

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…

Human Services
9
Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development

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.

—
10
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
11
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
12
Women's Law Project

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…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 86 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
24/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP DETAIL ATTACHED: $570,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP DETAIL ATTACHEDCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMIN: $328,211 · OtherCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP: $260,000 · OtherCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP+49 more: $915,878 · Other+49 moreLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $823,748 · EducationLINCOLN UNIVERSITYTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $205,937 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $205,937 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $77,053 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY+5 more: $119,228 · Education+5 moreBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $59,500 · Human ServicesBROAD STRE…Operation Warm Inc: $55,500 · Human ServicesOperation …HOPEPHL: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOPEPHLPROJECT HOME: $45,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HO…WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $20,000 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $20,000 · Human ServicesHUMANGOOD PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $16,500 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MINISTRY CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesBABY BUREAU: $13,500 · Human Services+5 more: $46,000 · Human Services+5 morePhilabundance: $55,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $55,000 · Food & NutritionSHARING EXCESS: $17,463 · Food & NutritionCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $12,940 · Food & NutritionPEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC: $35,000 · EmploymentMaternity Care Coalition: $20,000 · HealthFIRST STOP RECOVERY: $10,000 · HealthBRIGHTER HORIZON FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGENTLE GRATITUDE: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,074,089Education$1,431,903Human Services$381,000Food & Nutrition$140,403Employment$35,000Health$30,000Philanthropy$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $823,748 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $205,937 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $205,937 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $77,053 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $59,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $55,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEPHL: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $42,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $23,238 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $21,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANGOOD PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $17,463 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInner Strength Education: $17,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS BOARDING HOME OF WESTERN QUARTERLY MEETING: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBRIGHTER HORIZON FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VIP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBABY BUREAU: $13,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $12,940 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDEPAUL USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCollege Unbound: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENTLE GRATITUDE: $10,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetFIRST STOP RECOVERY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOrdinarie Heroes: $8,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBETHESDA PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
  • Who funds BAKER INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING ↗
  • Who funds HUMANGOOD PENNSYLVANIA ↗

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.

W W Smith Charitable …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Philadelphia Foun…The Gordon Charter Fo…The Leo and Peggy Pie…The Patricia Kind Fam…The William Penn Foun…Union Benevolent Asso…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Wsfs Cares FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Connelly Foundation
W W Smith Charitable TrustMO42.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Elmer R Deaver Foundation Idt funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elmer R Deaver Foundation Idt. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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