Pennsylvania · Private foundation
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.
- $767k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $309,658
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 33
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations The Ivywood Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $767k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $371k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $291k | 91% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $159k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Children First PA | $125,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Recovery Diaries | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Philosophical Society | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice | $34,000 | 2 | 4% |
| National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Progressive Multiplier Fund | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Volunteer English Program in Chester County Pennsylvania | $30,000 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($706k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ivywood Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
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About The Ivywood Foundation
- How much does The Ivywood Foundation give?
- The Ivywood Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $767,108 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 33 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Ivywood Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (77%), Employment (6%), Public Benefit (4%).
- Who are The Ivywood Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute Inc ($150k), Children First PA ($125k), Recovery Diaries ($60k).
- Does The Ivywood Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ivywood Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ivywood Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, New Venture Fund.
- Where is The Ivywood Foundation based?
- The Ivywood Foundation is based in PA.
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