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The Garbose Family Foundation William Garbose & Lynne Garbose Ttees

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.

$89k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$383kPhilanthropy$211kEducation$120kCivil Rights$56kInternational$25kHuman Services$17kEmployment$12kCrime & Legal$8kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$284k
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NAGEN PROJECT INC$50,000
MISSION KIDS ADVOCACY CENTER$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$4,667
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY - NY$4,000
CONGREGATION BETH OR$3,600
ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND$3,000
GERMANTOWN ACADEMY$2,500
NETWORK FOR GOOD$2,000
OROT$1,613
Individual grant recipient$1,554
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL$1,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$1,000
DINAH$1,000
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM INC$1,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$1,000
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, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $250 → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $2k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $2k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $2k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $2k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $2k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $1k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $500 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $500 → 22%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER: $1k → 22%WELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS: $500 → 22%WELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS: $250 → 22%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$834k · 40 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
39

Total granted

$834k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+27%

Still filing today

68%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsInternationalCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    6× · 2017–2024 · $353k · revenue +88%
  • RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $104k · revenue +228%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +253%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +25%
  • AC
    ABRAMSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

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
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
6
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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7
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology

The mission of the wistar institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation in order to solve some of the world's most challenging and important…

Health
8
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
9
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
10
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Hughie & Selma Black Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr17%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr17%60%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
9%
7,128/78,105

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 87 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)
54/55
Grantees still filing
40/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $353,497 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHI…Children's Hospital Colorado — $19,065 · Health+11 more — $10,120 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION — $103,600 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES…CONGREGATION BETH OR — $82,739 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ORIndividual grant recipient — $34,645 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMDRC — $11,850 · Other+47 more — $77,379 · Other+47 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $204,635 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF …+3 more — $5,974 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL — $92,350 · EducationCOMMUNITY PA…THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN — $16,080 · EducationTHE PUBLIC S…+5 more — $11,903 · Education+5 moreTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $6,000 · Civil RightsBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $24,700 · International+1 more — $360 · InternationalFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES — $10,800 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $2,030 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME — $1,800 · Human ServicesHOPEPHL — $1,000 · Human ServicesWELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS — $750 · Human Services+3 more — $530 · Human Services
Health$382,682Other$310,213Philanthropy$210,609Education$120,333Civil Rights$56,000International$25,060Human Services$16,910

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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $353,497 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $204,635 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION — $103,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL — $92,350 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $24,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado — $19,065 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN — $16,080 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC — $11,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES — $10,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION — $10,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATE SVITEK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $4,560 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOrot — $3,973 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $2,515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $2,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,680 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH BIKE CHALLENGE — $1,643 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND CELIAC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc — $1,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $1,180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $1,170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARKINSON COUNCIL — $1,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL THE WORLD INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPELOTONIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEPHL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDINAH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCESSMATTERS — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc — $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $414 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADD IMPACT NETWORK INC — $375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $320 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL ENTERPRISES CORPORATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC — $180 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Saramar Charitabl…Jewish Federation of …United Way of Greater…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Chubb Charitable Foun…Fred and Bryna Berman…The Cigna Group Found…The Pfizer Foundation…Citizens Charitable F…Horowitz Family Found…Katz Family Charitabl…
The Saramar Charitable FundPA32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Saramar Charitable Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Horowitz Family Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust

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 Garbose Family Foundation William Garbose & Lynne Garbose Ttees 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 87 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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