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The Gordon Charter Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.8MHuman Services$1.7MEducation$1.1MHousing & Shelter$846kYouth Development$468kFood & Nutrition$462kArts & Culture$185kCrime & Legal$180kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k73 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$60,000
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$25,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL$25,000
LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
PATHWAYS TO HOUSING PA$25,000
FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA$25,000
THE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER$25,000
BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA$25,000
FACE TO FACE$25,000
GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER$25,000
BROAD STREET LOVE$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
BEYOND LITERACY (COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER)$20,000
POTTSTOWN CLUSTER OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $20k → 12%TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $15k → 10%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $20k → 22%CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $15k → 12%KENCREST CENTERS: $15k → 7%UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $25k → 22%SILVER SPRINGS - MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $15k → 7%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE & PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $20k → 6%DRUEDING CENTER: $15k → 22%DOMESTIC ABUSE PROJECT OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $15k → 10%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $25k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $20k → 6%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $15k → 6%UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $15k → 7%UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $15k → 7%PROJECT HOME: $25k → 22%LAUREL HOUSE: $20k → 7%LAUREL HOUSE: $20k → 7%SENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $15k → 7%LAUREL HOUSE: $15k → 7%PROJECT HOME: $25k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $20k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $15k → 22%FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $25k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $20k → 7%SPARK SENIOR CENTER (GREATER HARLEYSVILLE AND NORTH PENN SENIOR SERVICE): $20k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $20k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $20k → 22%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $20k → 22%OLD MANS HOME OF PHILADELPHIA DBA SAUNDERS HOUSE: $36k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $20k → 22%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $25k → 6%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 6%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE (PACS): $20k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $20k → 6%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES (PACS): $20k → 6%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $20k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $20k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $25k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $25k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $25k → 22%HOPEPHL: $20k → 22%NORTHERN CHILDRENS SERVICES: $25k → 22%BROAD STREET LOVE: $25k → 22%BROAS STREET MINISTRY: $20k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $20k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 150 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

150
81

Total granted

$6.2M
$903k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

89%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LM
    LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $390k · revenue +66%
  • LI
    LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
    3× · 2019–2022 · $125k · revenue +16%
  • MA
    METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE
    4× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • OM
    OLD MAN'S HOME OF PHILADELPHIA D/B/A SAUNDERS HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue -96%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENN - WXPN
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • SI
    SELF INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue ×14
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
3
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
4
Pennsylvania Community Real Estate Corp

None

Housing & Shelter
5
Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance

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…

Human Services
6
Center for Community Resources Inc

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…

Health
7
Chartiers Center

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.

Human Services
8
The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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9
The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

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…

Human Services
10
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

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…

Education
11
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.

—
12
Pmhcc Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graduate Philadelphia; 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.
04the grantee network

220 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
60
Early backer (in before they grew)
219/220
Grantees still filing
158/220
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FACE TO FACE INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $85,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $80,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesPHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSE: $60,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $60,000 · Human Services+50 more: $1,237,500 · Human Services+50 moreLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $125,000 · OtherLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEA…THE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $95,000 · OtherUNITE FOR HER (HELPING TO EMPOWER AND RESTORE): $80,000 · Other+66 more: $1,813,000 · Other+66 moreLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $390,000 · HealthLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTE…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $150,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED IN…BREASTCANCERORG: $75,000 · HealthBREASTCANCERORGPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $75,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOU…ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC: $75,000 · HealthALS UNITED MID-ATLANTI…MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $68,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $60,000 · HealthHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Health+17 more: $429,000 · Health+17 moreBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA: $75,000 · EducationBIG PICTURE…COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $65,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY P…PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $56,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANI…CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $55,000 · EducationCHESTER COU…PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC: $50,000 · EducationPHILADELPHI…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFF…WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $45,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON …VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $40,000 · EducationVALLEY FORG…THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $35,000 · EducationOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $35,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 · Education+12 more: $184,000 · Education+12 moreMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $100,000 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $70,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $45,000 · Food & NutritionSHARING EXCESS: $40,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPENNYPACK FARM & EDUCATION CENTER: $20,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PHILADELPHIA COALITION AGAINST HUNGER: $20,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance: $17,000 · Food & NutritionBETHESDA PROJECT: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterPATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $37,500 · Housing & ShelterJOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterSELF INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterGIRLS ON THE RUN PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterDEPAUL USA INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterGOOD WORKS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentPETER'S PLACE: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH10 PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAKING A CHANGE GROUP: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $10,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$1,792,500Other$2,213,000Health$1,377,000Education$720,000Food & Nutrition$332,000Housing & Shelter$292,500Youth Development$233,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $390,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC: $90,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $80,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBETHESDA PROJECT: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA: $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $70,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $68,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $65,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $56,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $55,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $48,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $45,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $45,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY ROLLMAN OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $40,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INCORPORATED: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGemma Services: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA185× affinity142 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gordon Charter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gordon Charter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Coriell Institute for Medical Research Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Joseph's House of Camden Llc: 32% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
98report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 251 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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