· Private foundation
The Kanter 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| COMMON SPACE | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of your 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.
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +45%
- PMPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2022 · $55k · revenue +84%
- TSTHE STARTING POINT INC OF NEW JERSEY2× · 2020–2021 · $17k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- VVARIETYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- VCVARIETY CLUBone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +56%
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.
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
To provide exceptional patient care and customer service to members of the communities served by the hospitals, and to recognize a patient's right to considerate and respectful care, regardless of ability to pay. please refer to schedule o…
To function as an academic medical center that provides the finest healthcare services with excellent outcomes to people living in our communities. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.
The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all by fostering healing, easing suffering, and promoting wellness in a culture of safety, learning and respect. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community…
The magee memorial hospital for convalescents' mission is to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities by providing high quality physical and cognitive rehabilitation services. please refer to schedule o for the…
The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all by fostering healing, easing suffering, and promoting wellness in a culture of safety, learning and respect. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community…
See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…
Aehn group is licensed to operate 721 acute care beds. tertiary care is provided through three locations, its main campus in north philadelphia, its campus at montgomery county and at elkins park (until june 30, 2023). in addition, its…
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
Penn state health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and equitable care; educates and trains (continued…
The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paoli Memorial Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Regina Luminis Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE STARTING POINT INC OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds DDX3X FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Special Equestrians Inc ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kanter 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.
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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