· Charitable trust
The Harry R Halloran Jr Charitable Trust
To make charitable grants and pursue charitable activities that support the mission of the philadelphia foundation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k31 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+8 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VISIONS FUND AT THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| WATSON INSTITUTE | $493,548 |
| BRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE | $400,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BRADFORD AREA | $300,000 |
| MCKEAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| REALIZE IMPACT | $250,000 |
| IMPACTASSETS INC | $250,000 |
| KENSINGTON CORRIDOR TRUST | $250,000 |
| THE NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION | $200,000 |
| THE PEACE STUDIO | $150,000 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| IMPACTPHL | $150,000 |
| BRADFORD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA AREA COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| EISENHOWER EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIPS INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of The Harry R Halloran Jr Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- THTHE HALLORAN FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $2.7M · revenue +17% · 71% of their budget
- BABRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +638% · 82% of their budget
- WIWatson Institute3× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +241%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHone grant, 2022 · $700k · revenue +11%- FSFirst Step Staffing Incone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -13%
- BLB LAB COMPANYone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +20%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transform Finance Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Impact Society. 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 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 106 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 THE VISIONS FUND AT THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds THE HALLORAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTHERN ALLEGHENIES ↗
- Who funds Watson Institute ↗
- Who funds KENSINGTON CORRIDOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Realize Impact ↗
- Who funds IMPACTPHL INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENLIGHTENED WORLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEACE STUDIO ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA AREA COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BRADFORD AREA INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM TRIPPLEY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FTD ↗
- Who funds THE ENTERPRISE CENTER ↗
- Who funds First Step Staffing Inc ↗
- Who funds B LAB COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL PA REGIONAL PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds CalCef Innovations ↗
- Who funds FREEDMENS ART ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNTOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Unlocking Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds MOM YOUR BUSINESS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRADFORD ↗
- Who funds THE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY-OF-LIFE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds FAITH CRUSADES MINISTRIES ↗
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 · Impactassetsinc · The William Penn Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation
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 Harry R Halloran Jr Charitable Trust 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.
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% 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.
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