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The Ivywood Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k42 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $261k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD WORKS INC | $309,658 |
| RECOVERY DIARIES | $60,000 |
| RIGHT TO DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $50,000 |
| GOOD WORKS INC | $46,000 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATIN OF CUNY | $30,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FAT ACCEPTANCE | $30,000 |
| WORLDS FAIR FUND | $20,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA JOBS WITH JUSTICE | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST | $15,000 |
| VOLUNTEER ENGLISH PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL REFUGE | $10,000 |
| IOWA ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 60% of The Ivywood Foundation’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.
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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 35 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k 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
- DIDEBS-JONES-DOUGLASS INSTITUTE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +21%
- CFChildren First PA3× · 2022–2025 · $125k · revenue +33%
- LILUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- JWJOBS WITH JUSTICEone grant, 2024 · $41k
- TETHE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE INCARNATIONone grant, 2022 · $40k
- CPCIVITAS PUBLIC AFFAIRS GROUPone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Share. 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 37 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 91 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds DEBS-JONES-DOUGLASS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Children First PA ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO ADVANCE FAT ACCEPTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER ENGLISH PROGRAM IN CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR THE ELDERLY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Abortion Access Fund ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds Friends of Sabeel-North America ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania ↗
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 William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · New Venture Fund · Valentine Foundation · Independence Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The Snider Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Philadelphia Health Partnership · The Nararo 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 Ivywood 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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