· Private foundation
The Gordon Charter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LMLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $390k · revenue +66%
- LILANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH3× · 2019–2022 · $125k · revenue +16%
- MAMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE4× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- OMOLD MAN'S HOME OF PHILADELPHIA D/B/A SAUNDERS HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue -96%
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENN - WXPNone grant, 2020 · $25k
- SISELF INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
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.
None
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…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA ↗
- 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 VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAIN LINE MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- 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 CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
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.
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
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.
- Coriell Institute for Medical Research Inc: 44% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc: 32% of income from government
How this is measured
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