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The Fann Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$103k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$213kHousing & Shelter$208kEducation$204kFood & Nutrition$109kReligion$97kHealth$17kAnimals$1k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIDGE OF HOPE INC$15,000
SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC$10,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$10,000
A HAVEN$10,000
WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD$10,000
CALVARY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$10,000
CLEVELAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION$10,000
CARE CENTER FOUNDATION INC$7,500
TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION$5,000
PHILABUNDANCE$5,000
WITTENBERG COLLEGE BOARD OF DIRECTORS$5,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA AND SUSQUEH$3,000
CLEVELAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $20k → 6%BRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $15k → 6%BRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $15k → 6%BRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $15k → 6%BRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $15k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $15k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $15k → 6%BRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $15k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$842k · 14 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$842k
$6k

Still filing today

79%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BO
    BRIDGE OF HOPE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +373%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +68%
  • AH
    A HAVEN
    7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +439%

Funded once

  • WI
    WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AC
    ANIMAL CARE ASSOCIATION INC SPCA
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chester County Food Bank

We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…

Food & Nutrition
2
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
3
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
4
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

Our vision is a community that embraces specialized care at the end of life with the same importance that is given at the beginning of life. our guiding principles are service - to make a difference in the lives of our patients/families,…

Human Services
5
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

6
Share Food Program

As the largest serving hunger-relief organization in the greater philadelphia region, share food program's mission is reducing regional food insecurity by providing nourishing food to a network of community-based partners and directly to…

Food & Nutrition
7
Lancaster County Food Hub

Rooted in faith and compassion we provide services that honor the dignity of all by striving to meet basic human needs.

Religion
8
West Side Catholic Center

The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.

Human Services
9
Tandem Living

The christ-centered mission of tandem living is to partner with and support vibrant senior living communities where residents pursue their passions, deepen their relationships, prioritize their wellness, and live fully at every age.

Housing & Shelter
10
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
11
Domestic Violence Center of Chester County

THE MISSION OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY IS TO REDUCE domestic violence by supporting survivors and advancing prevention strategies.

Human Services
12
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Harbor of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Haven. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALVARY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — $97,000 · OtherCALVARY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHCLEVELAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $96,000 · OtherCLEVELAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOC…THE CARE CENTER FOUNDATION — $67,500 · OtherTHE CARE CENTER FOUNDATIONMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA AND SUSQUEH — $10,000 · Other+2 more — $6,000 · OtherBRIDGE OF HOPE INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF HOPE I…GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES — $30,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN S…WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD — $65,000 · Food & NutritionWEST CHESTER F…Philabundance — $44,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $67,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO C…THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE — $40,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF D…A HAVEN — $80,000 · HealthA HAVENST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $17,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $82,500 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HARBOR…Travis Manion Foundation — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$276,500Human Services$125,000Food & Nutrition$109,000Education$107,500Health$97,000Housing & Shelter$82,500Philanthropy$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE INC — $95,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $82,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetA HAVEN — $80,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetTHE CARE CENTER FOUNDATION — $67,500 over 8y, 10% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $67,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD — $65,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $50,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance — $44,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 BRIDGE OF HOPE INC
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC
  • Who funds A HAVEN
  • Who funds THE CARE CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
  • Who funds WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD
  • Who funds Travis Manion Foundation
  • Who funds Philabundance
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC

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.

United Way of Chester County IncPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Chester County Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fann Family 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Fann Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Fann Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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