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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.

$767k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$5.0MEmployment$393kPublic Benefit$234kHuman Services$139kInternational$115kPhilanthropy$106kHealth$84kArts & Culture$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $261k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
  • $250k+1 grant · $310k
$3,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD WORKS INC$309,658
RECOVERY DIARIES$60,000
RIGHT TO DEMOCRACY PROJECT$50,000
GOOD WORKS INC$46,000
PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND$30,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FAT ACCEPTANCE$30,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATIN OF CUNY$30,000
PHILADELPHIA JOBS WITH JUSTICE$20,000
WORLDS FAIR FUND$20,000
CHILDREN FIRST$15,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$10,000
CENTER ON BUDGET POLICY PRIORITIES$10,000
IOWA ABORTION ACCESS FUND$10,000
GLOBAL REFUGE$10,000
FOUNDING FORWARD$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN FIRST: $90k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST: $20k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST: $15k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $9k → 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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
KS
DC
TX
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 60% of The Ivywood Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Ivywood Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$764k · 28 repeat orgs$823k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
25

Total granted

$764k
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
0%

Still filing today

82%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentHealthEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DI
    DEBS-JONES-DOUGLASS INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +21%
  • CF
    Children First PA
    3× · 2022–2025 · $125k · revenue +33%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • JW
    JOBS WITH JUSTICE
    one grant, 2024 · $41k
  • TE
    THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • CP
    CIVITAS PUBLIC AFFAIRS GROUP
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
2
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
3
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
4
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
5
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
6
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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7
Partnership for Public Service Inc

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…

Employment
8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
9
American Gas Association

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…

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10
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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11
Pew Research Center

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…

Social Science
12
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 91 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
29/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4,800,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA+4 more: $163,000 · EducationGOOD WORKS INC: $355,658 · OtherGOOD WORKS INCRIGHT TO DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $175,000 · OtherRIGHT TO DEMOCRACY …RECOVERY DIARIES: $60,000 · OtherLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $55,000 · OtherJOBS WITH JUSTICE: $40,585 · OtherTHE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION: $40,000 · Other+66 more: $412,950 · Other+66 moreChildren First PA: $125,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $9,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesPROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $30,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $34,000 · EmploymentMissouri Workers Center: $3,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO ADVANCE FAT ACCEPTANCE INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $3,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $500 · Civil Rights
Education$4,963,000Other$1,139,193Human Services$198,000Philanthropy$60,000Arts & Culture$46,500Employment$37,000Civil Rights$33,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4,800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEBS-JONES-DOUGLASS INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetChildren First PA: $125,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $34,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO ADVANCE FAT ACCEPTANCE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER ENGLISH PROGRAM IN CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOUSING OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR THE ELDERLY INCORPORATED: $11,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIowa Abortion Access Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $9,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN CENTER FOR YOUTH JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER PHILADELPHIA COALITION AGAINST HUNGER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER FREE AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOTLIGHT PA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITIZENS CAMPAIGN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE: $1,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $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 William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…New Venture FundValentine FoundationIndependence Foundati…Amalgamated Charitabl…Bread and Roses Commu…The Snider FoundationConnelly FoundationThe Robert Wood Johns…Philadelphia Health P…The Nararo Foundation
The William Penn FoundationPA28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ivywood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ivywood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to The Ivywood Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ivywood Foundation 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 91 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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