· Private foundation
The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $160k
- $10k–50k111 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION & HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| SHARE FOOD PROGRAM INC | $225,000 |
| TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC | $40,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $40,000 |
| GREATER PHILADELPHIA COALITION AGAINST HUNGER | $40,000 |
| UNITED AGAINST POVERTY | $35,000 |
| SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS | $35,000 |
| FEAST OF JUSTICE | $30,000 |
| BROAD STREET MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| FOOD CONNECT CO | $30,000 |
| SMALL THINGS INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
168 repeat relationships — 123 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $489k 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
- UAUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $880k · revenue +4%
- SFSHARE FOOD PROGRAM7× · 2018–2024 · $743k · revenue +480%
- FFFAITH FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES6× · 2018–2023 · $415k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +148%
Central Texas Food Bank Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -28%- PEPENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +14%
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.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Our mission is to leverage the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes.
Manna uses nutrition to improve health for people with serious illnesses who need nourishment to heal. by providing medically tailored meals and nutrition education, we empower people to improve their health and quality of life.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Community kitchen pittsburgh is a nonprofit food service company. because poverty, food insecurity and employment are entwined issues, we work across these focus areas, engaging in the following activities: "culinary based workforce…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
The organization is a non-profit that distributes local and sustainably produced foods. the organization's public purpose is to implement educational programs that improve access to local foods for residents of underserved low income…
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise Montco Pa and the most unlike its peers is NORTH10 Philadelphia. 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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
190 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. 190 of the 227 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FAITH FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS DATA TRUST ↗
- Who funds GREENER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Senior Resource Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA COALITION AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds CABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECT CO ↗
- Who funds MANNA ON MAIN STREET ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD GARDENS TRUST ↗
- Who funds WEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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: W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Philabundance · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Claneil Foundation Inc · The Barra Foundation Inc · Independence 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 Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% 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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