· Public charity
The Fund for Women and Girls
The fund leads and unites the community through philanthropy and advocacy to ensure that women and girls have resources and opportunities to thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $209,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $221,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,150 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOM'S HOUSE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $17,925 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE CHESTER COUNTY | $16,925 |
| CRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER CO | $13,500 |
| PROJECT LIBERTAD | $13,500 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY | $13,500 |
| 4TH TRIMESTER MAHMEE | $13,500 |
| LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES | $13,500 |
| THE CLINIC | $13,500 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER | $13,500 |
| YOUNGMOMS | $13,500 |
| ALIANZAS DE PHOENIXVILLE | $13,500 |
| THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER | $12,000 |
| PARKESBURG POINT | $8,500 |
| A CHILD'S LIGHT | $8,500 |
| NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY | $8,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $494k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +65% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LHLCH Health and Community Services8× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +98%
- MHMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA6× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +127%
- DVDomestic Violence Center of Chester County6× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CWCOMMUNITY WAREHOUSE PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $15k
- BABRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue -5%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESCOone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.
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 mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
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…
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
The mission of pennsylvania women work is to empower women to advance in their careers and achieve self-sufficiency through life-changing career development programs and mentorship.
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…
Berks counseling center (bcc) is a recovery oriented certified community behavioral health center (ccbhc) with an integrated behavioral and physical health model of service delivery. the center provides a holistic approach to a culturally…
Provider of health care services to the general population targeting uninsured, low-income and medical assistance individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Libertad. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 56 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 LCH Health and Community Services ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Center of Chester County ↗
- Who funds ALIANZAS DE PHOENIXVILLE ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGMOMS ↗
- Who funds THE PARKESBURG POINT ↗
- Who funds CRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
- Who funds COATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Wings for Success Inc ↗
- Who funds Unite for HER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HORSEWORKS ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER ENGLISH PROGRAM IN CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Project Libertad ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESPENN HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE ACCESS ↗
- Who funds ORION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PREPARED TO THRIVE ↗
- Who funds A CHILD'S LIGHT ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Justamere Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Alliance for Health Equity · Genuardi Family Foundation · Quest for the Best · Claneil Foundation Inc · The Dansko Foundation Inc
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 Fund for Women and Girls 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.