· Private foundation
The Fidelio Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAHILL PROPERTY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $44,500 |
| MICHAELS WAY | $35,000 |
| LA SALLE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| HOLY REDEEMER HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| THE LEGACY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COMPANIONS OF ST ANTHONY | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL ASSOC OF THE MIRACULOUS ME | $2,500 |
| ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| ST RITA OF CASCIA | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +39%
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2023–2025 · $98k · revenue +13%
- RCREGINA COELI ACADEMY5× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SJST JUDE CHURCH & SHRINE2× · 2021–2022 · $20k
- CNC3 NYC3× · 2020–2022 · $15k
- SKST KATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 32 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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S WAY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds REGINA COELI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fidelio Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fidelio Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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