· Private foundation
The Musser Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA | $4,750 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF PALM BEACH | $4,000 |
| DREYFOOS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| DELAWARE VALLEY GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC | $3,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN | $2,950 |
| PALM BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION | $775 |
| MARGATE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $500 |
| J WOOD PLAT TRUST | $250 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 21% of The Musser 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. Read by recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 50% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +53%
- SOSchool of the Arts Foundation Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +118%
- DVDELAWARE VALLEY GOLDEN RETRIEVER2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- COCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -14%
- GPGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Associationone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +10%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHESTER COUNTY COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -3%
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.
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…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
The purpose of circle ten council is to promote and extend scouting in northeast texas and southeast oklahoma. our goal is to provide all youth and adults with programs, training, and awards that build character, teach participatory…
The mission of the bsa is to prepare young people to make ethical decisions over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. the bsa program seeks to positively impact youth risk behaviors, juvenile crime,…
To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
Provide youth services through the execution of the charter of the national council boy scouts of america.
It is the mission of the boy scouts of america (bsa) to serve others by helping to instill values in young people and in other ways prepare them to make ethical choices over their lifetime in achieving their full potential. the values bsa…
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
Society of gynecologic oncology's (sgo) mission is to improve the care of patients with gynecologic cancer; to advance knowledge and raise standards of practice in gynecologic oncology; to encourage research in gynecologic oncology; and,…
Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Year Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer 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.
14 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. 14 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY GOLDEN RETRIEVER ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CTC WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Musser 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.