· Private foundation
The Nararo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Nararo Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Nararo Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 78 organizations, $863k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k59 grants · $223k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $590k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILABUNDANCE | $50,000 |
| FOOD MOXIE | $35,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - CHILDREN'S RIGHTS DIVISION | $35,000 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE - CHESTER CHILDREN'S CHORUS | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SE PA | $25,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $25,000 |
| MIGHTY WRITERS INC | $25,000 |
| MANNA | $20,000 |
| UNTOURS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH PCCY | $20,000 |
| BREAD AND ROSES COMMUNITY FUND | $20,000 |
| THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND | $20,000 |
| TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST | $15,000 |
| WONDERSPRING EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $403k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
106 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2020, 25 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCCSA FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +18%
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE4× · 2017–2021 · $115k · revenue +52%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- GUGEARING UPone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -90%
- TPTHE PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTEBOOKone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -78%
NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +78%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
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
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.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
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…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
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 association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
How this is measured
100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 137 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds WEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CCSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds Children First PA ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Bread and Roses Community Fund ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds NON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MAIA ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BALLETX ↗
- Who funds PLAY ON PHILLY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Wonderspring ↗
- Who funds ACLAMO ↗
- Who funds Back Bay Chorale LTD ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNTOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Cigna Group Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Foundation · Amj Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nararo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nararo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
- Back Bay Chorale Ltd: 3% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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