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The Hbe Foundation Co Beucler Kelly & Irwin Ltd

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$195k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Public Benefit$246kReligion$217kPhilanthropy$216kEnvironment$209kInternational$195kArts & Culture$91kEducation$72kFood & Nutrition$60kOther$0
02FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $974k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION$194,724
PLOUGHSHARES FUND$194,724
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION$194,724
FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE$194,724
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$194,724
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA$20,000
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION$15,000
MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER$5,000
HILL TOP PREPARATORY SCHOOL$5,000
SEPIA$5,000
CLEAN AIR COUNCIL$5,000
PHILADELPHIA FUTURES$2,100
501C3 ENTITY$34
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL HISTORY CLUB: $7k → 8%ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $195k → 13%JENKINS ARBORETUM GARDENS: $5k → 6%FRIENDS OF LAUREL HILLW LAUREL HILL: $10k → 7%SALVATION ARMY: $12k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FDN THE FAIRNESS CENTE: $10k → 12%SOUTHEASTERN PA INTERGROUP ASSOCIAT: $2k → 22%PLOUGHSHARES FUND: $195k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC: $10k → 12%REMOTE AREA MEDICAL INC: $5k → 10%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $5k → 6%NATIONAL HISTORY CLUB: $7k → 8%CAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS: $2k → 6%CHESTER CORPS COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FDN THE FAIRNESS CENTE: $10k → 12%SOUTHEASTERN PA INTERGROUP ASSOCIAT: $2k → 22%NATIONAL HISTORY CLUB: $7k → 8%CHESTER UPLAND YOUTH SOCCER: $5k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NATIONAL HISTORY CLUB: $7k → 8%WORLD VISION: $5k → 6%THE CHESTER FUND FOR EDUCATION ARTS: $25k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10k → 22%HILL TOP PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $20k → 22%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $5k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $15k → 22%THE HARRITON ASSOCIATION: $4k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $15k → 22%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $195k → 10%CEASE FIRE PA EDUCATION FUND: $6k → 22%CHESTER CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $5k → 10%CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%PROIVDENCE ANIMAL CENTER: $15k → 10%GREATER PHILADELPHIA FILM OFFICE: $5k → 22%ST JAMES SCHOOL: $4k → 22%PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES: $12k → 22%PHILADELPHIA FUTURES: $2k → 22%ST JAMES SCHOOL: $4k → 22%CLEAN AIR COUNCIL: $5k → 22%ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER: $18k → 22%ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 22%PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM: $8k → 22%HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $10k → 22%SEPIA: $5k → 22%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20k → 22%PHILADELPHIA VIETNAM VETERANS MEMOR: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
TN
MS
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 38% of The Hbe Foundation Co Beucler Kelly & Irwin Ltd’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 20%.

The Hbe Foundation Co Beucler Kelly & Irwin Ltdlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$439k · 11 repeat orgs$815k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
25

Total granted

$439k
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+67%

Still filing today

64%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $624k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TP
    THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $50k · revenue +45%
  • CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +162%
  • NH
    NATIONAL HISTORY CLUB
    4× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHESTER FUND FOR EDUCATION ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • PA
    PROIVDENCE ANIMAL CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
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
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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2
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
6
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
7
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
8
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
9
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
10
Chestnut Hill Conservancy

The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.

Arts & Culture
11
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
12
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the most unlike its peers is National History Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE: $239,724 · OtherFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGETHE CHESTER FUND FOR EDUCATION ARTS: $25,000 · OtherHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $20,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH FDN THE FAIRNESS CENTE: $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL HISTORY CLUB: $28,000 · OtherNATIONAL HISTORY CLUBESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER INC: $27,550 · OtherESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER INC+20 more: $122,949 · Other+20 moreNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $194,724 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY …THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE PENNSYLVANIA HO…+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $194,724 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES FUND…CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalCAPE ELEUTHERA FO…+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalThe Community's Foundation: $194,724 · PhilanthropyThe Community's …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDA…+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $194,724 · ReligionAMERICAN FAMILY…HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of the Pacific: $10,000 · EducationHILL TOP PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $3,800 · EducationPARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON MEMORIAL HERITAGE: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePlease Touch Museum: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHARRITON ASSOCIATION: $3,900 · Arts & Culture
Other$503,223Environment$249,724International$229,724Philanthropy$216,224Religion$194,724Education$38,800Arts & Culture$38,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE: $239,724 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $194,724 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $194,724 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $194,724 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Community's Foundation: $194,724 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL HISTORY CLUB: $28,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER INC: $27,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWASHINGTON MEMORIAL HERITAGE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlease Touch Museum: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClean Air Council: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILL TOP PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER UPLAND YOUTH SOCCER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Foun…The William Penn Foun…Connelly FoundationHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Maguire FoundationFoundation for Delawa…Hamilton Family Found…The Philadelphia Cult…The Ayco Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Maguire Foundation · Foundation for Delaware County · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer 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 Hbe Foundation Co Beucler Kelly & Irwin Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hbe Foundation Co Beucler Kelly & Irwin Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Hbe Foundation Co Beucler Kelly & Irwin Ltd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 48 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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