· Private foundation
The Mutual Fire Foundation Inc
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
- Under $10k34 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WIDENER SCHOOL OF LAW | $40,000 |
| MONTGOMERY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| SERB NATIONAL FEDERATION | $20,000 |
| VILLANOVA LAW SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| VILLA MARIA ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $12,500 |
| PAOLI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF | $10,000 |
| THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION | $8,250 |
| SAINT MATTHEW'S SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITALS FOR | $8,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH | $8,000 |
| LORD'S PANTRY OF DOWNINGTOWN | $7,000 |
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, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 37% 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.
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.
66 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 23 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- WUWIDENER UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2021 · $56k · revenue +28%
- MSMONTGOMERY SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +17%
- MPMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- DLDELAWARE LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
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…
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
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,…
Provision of charitable healthcare services
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…
As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
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…
Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elwyn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kolbe Fund Inc. 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 36 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
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 84 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 THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERB NATIONAL FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LORD'S PANTRY OF DOWNINGTOWN ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELWYN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LULUS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · United Way of Chester County Inc · Justamere Foundation · The Wawa Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
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 Mutual Fire 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.
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — 8% 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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