· Private foundation
The Gordon Charter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k73 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA | $25,000 |
| LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER | $25,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO HOUSING PA | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| FACE TO FACE | $25,000 |
| BROAD STREET LOVE | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER | $25,000 |
| JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN | $20,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $20,000 |
| PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES (PACS) | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
150 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 93 since wound down; 18 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
- LMLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $390k · revenue +66%
- LILANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH3× · 2019–2022 · $125k · revenue +16%
- THTHE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER4× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- OMOLD MAN'S HOME OF PHILADELPHIA D/B/A SAUNDERS HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue -96%
- CICORIELL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +46%
- UCUPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +162%
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.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
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Gpca's mission is to break the cycle of generational proverty by ensuring equitable distribution of the resources for vulnerable children, families, and communities. our vision is to be philadelphia's catalyst for community empowerment and…
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
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.
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The mission of pmhcc is to improve service and recovery opportunities for persons who are challenged by serious and/or prolonged mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse and/or other barriers to self-sufficiency, in support of those citizens…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graduate Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is NORTH10 Philadelphia. 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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
220 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. 220 of the 251 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
- Who funds MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAKER INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra 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 Gordon Charter 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.
- Coriell Institute for Medical Research Inc — 44% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
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.