· Private foundation
The Leroy E Kean Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WISTAR FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| EMILY'S ENTOURAGE | $70,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $50,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $40,000 |
| MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| AMERICA GIVES INC - ISRAEL CHILDREN FD | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| MIGHTY WRITERS | $20,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $20,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL | $15,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE ROCK SCHOOL | $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 (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 9% of The Leroy E Kean Family 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 +58% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- CFCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc3× · 2019–2024 · $121k · revenue +45%
- PYPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +216%
- MRMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +33%
- AGAMERICA GIVES INC- GLOW GLAMPINGone grant, 2023 · $10k
- NENE EMAN FOUNDATION USAone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -7%
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
The mission of the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.
The college of physicians of philadelphia advances the cause of health, while upholding the ideals and heritage of medicine
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is The Jerry Segal Classic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 63 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 Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ENCORE SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JERRY SEGAL CLASSIC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Studio Incamminati ↗
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 Cultural Fund Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Philadelphia Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Connelly Foundation · Clarence a Rowell #2 · The Brind Foundation · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2 · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Snider 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 Leroy E Kean Family 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.