· Private foundation
The Footer 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,800 |
| AJC | $1,250 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| PICPA | $250 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $250 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $100 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +10%
- WPWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +22%
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2024 · $800 · revenue +97%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +198%
- TRTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +108%
- ASABRAMSON SENIOR CAREone grant, 2020 · $500
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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Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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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,…
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 29 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Footer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Footer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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