· Private foundation
Jeff and Jenifer Westphal 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 $10k20 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $611k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Verx.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURAL CREATIVITY | $546,000 |
| BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $333,334 |
| CUPOLA ACADEMY | $220,000 |
| THE GLOBAL STEERING GROUP | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,500 |
| PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| GIRL RISING | $60,000 |
| EXTRASPECIALTEAS INC | $25,000 |
| JDRF | $25,000 |
| EAGLES AUTISM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GOOD WORK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MCGREGOR HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $24,616 |
| RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION | $13,096 |
| GRAMMY MUSEUM | $12,300 |
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 (FY18–21, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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 +15% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 14 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +10%
- NCNATURAL CREATIVITY4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +18% · 71% of their budget
- TBTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $996k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- NVNEW VOICE STRATEGIES NFPone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -63% · 43% of their budget
- KIKSCII INCone grant, 2023 · $81k
- HOHEARTS OF GOLD INCone grant, 2017 · $74k · revenue -12%
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Whyy is the philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and all of delaware.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Impact Guild Inc and the most unlike its peers is M Night Shyamalan Foundation Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 111 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.
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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 · Wyncote Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Snider Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Albert M Greenfield Foundation · Salem D Shuchman & Barbara L Klock Foundation C/O Bessemer Trust Company Na · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund
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 Jeff and Jenifer Westphal 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.
- Connecting Generations — 89% of income from government
- Extraspecialteas Inc — 83% of income from government
- Child Rescue Coalition Inc — 20% 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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