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The Mariposa Wish 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $150,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $150,000 |
| WAYNE SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| HORIZONS AT THE EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| WAYNE ART CENTER | $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 (FY18–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE3× · 2022–2024 · $167k · revenue +77%
- EAEpiscopal Academy6× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +32%
- WRWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY5× · 2019–2023 · $44k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- VVOCATIOone grant, 2018 · $25k
- GSGREENE STREET FRIENDS SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $16k
- SEST EDMONDS HOME FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
To provide a safe, secure, and nurturing atmosphere in which each child may develop and grow emotionally, socially, intellectually, and physically by receiving a well-rounded experience based on montessori philosophy.
Summary
To provide an individualized, age-appropriate, creative learning environment for children 2 to 5 years of age, with a variety of learning and weekly music, gym, nature center and library classes, as well as optional enrichment programs.…
At community day school, we are committed to raising proud jews, confident leaders, and accomplished learners who value excellence and prioritize community. as educators, administrators, and staff, we hold ourselves to the highest ethical…
Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.
The Montessori School educates children from 18 months-6th grade. Our program is rooted in the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori faithful to her method. In our caring environment, sustained by freedom peace, the school…
Preschool education for 3, 4 and 5 year old children in the kennett square, pennsylvania area
Drexel neumann academy is committed to providing a catholic elementary school education in a multiculteral environment to the children of chester
With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
A charter school for k-5 whose mission is to help every child find a pathway to a successful adult life in the city and beyond.
Early education and child care services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Drueding Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MAIN LINE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Wayne Art Center ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
- Who funds DRUEDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILLOWS PARK PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FIRST ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN 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: Hamilton Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Mariposa Wish 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.
- Cradles to Crayons 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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