Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Nerney Family 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Nerney Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $1.2M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $523k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $837k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $864k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.1M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $1.1M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $1.1M | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabrini Legacy Corporation | $1,604,034 | 5 | 1% |
| Villanova University | $975,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation | $435,014 | 7 | 2% |
| Lasalle College High School | $360,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Mount Saint Joseph Academy | $360,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Lodigiano Film Development Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Elevate 215 | $250,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Vincera Foundation | $215,000 | 7 | 50% |
| Episcopal Academy | $215,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $201,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Nerney Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Connelly Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Nerney Family Foundation
- How much does The Nerney Family Foundation give?
- The Nerney Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $1,254,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Nerney Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Nerney Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cabrini Legacy Corporation ($1.6M), Villanova University ($975k), The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation ($435k).
- Does The Nerney Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nerney Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Nerney Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connelly Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Wsfs Cares Foundation.
- Where is The Nerney Family Foundation based?
- The Nerney Family Foundation is based in PA.
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