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The Nerney Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.4MFood & Nutrition$2.0MHealth$1.6MArts & Culture$393kYouth Development$339kRecreation & Sports$237kHuman Services$187kReligion$97kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $685k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
ST JOSEPH'S - KINNEY CENTER$150,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$85,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
VINCERA FOUNDATION$50,000
ST KATHARINE OF SIENA$50,000
MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH'S ACADEMY$40,000
LASALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$30,000
ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL$30,000
THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELP US ADOPT: $3k → 17%HELP US ADOPT: $1k → 17%CARE2 FUND AT USLI INC: $35k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $35k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
DE
DC
HI
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 48 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
61

Total granted

$6.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

60%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $843k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $975k · revenue +39%
  • VF
    VINCERA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +29% · 50% of their budget
  • EA
    Episcopal Academy
    5× · 2018–2024 · $215k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • LF
    LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -90%
  • ST
    SHAPE TOMORROW CAMPAIGN EA PLAYGROUND
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • RA
    RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT UPENN
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
6
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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7
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
Philadelphia County Medical Society

The mission of the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.

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9
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
10
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
11
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
12
Lancaster General Health Foundation

The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tiger Woods Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lodigiano Film Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 124 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
37/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION: $1,604,034 · EducationCABRINI LEGACY CORPORATIONVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $975,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYElevate 215: $250,000 · EducationElevate 215Episcopal Academy: $215,000 · EducationEpiscopal AcademyTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $205,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYL…+8 more: $149,000 · EducationLASALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $360,000 · OtherLASALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLMOUNT SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMY: $360,000 · OtherMOUNT SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMYNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $359,635 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYSHAPE TOMORROW CAMPAIGN EA PLAYGROUND: $300,000 · OtherSHAPE TOMORROW CAMPAIGN EA PLAYGROUN…Individual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JOSEPH'S - KINNEY CENTER: $150,000 · OtherLASALLE ACADEMY: $145,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherMERCY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SISTERS OF MERCY: $115,000 · Other+75 more: $948,525 · Other+75 moreUPLIFT SOLUTIONS INC: $2,000,000 · Food & NutritionUPLIFT SOLUTIONS INCTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $435,014 · HealthTHE BRYN M…VINCERA FOUNDATION: $215,000 · HealthVINCERA FO…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $201,000 · HealthTHE CHILDR…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $60,000 · HealthAMERICAN C…+11 more: $91,515 · Health+11 moreLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC: $300,000 · ReligionPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $148,605 · PhilanthropySPEAKUP: $27,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $6,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $41,000 · Human ServicesCARE2 FUND AT USLI INC: $35,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,500 · Human Services
Education$3,398,034Other$3,313,160Food & Nutrition$2,000,000Health$1,002,529Religion$300,000Philanthropy$182,105Human Services$169,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUPLIFT SOLUTIONS INC: $2,000,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetCABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION: $1,604,034 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $975,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $435,014 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC: $300,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetElevate 215: $250,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVINCERA FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 7y, 50% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $215,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $205,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $201,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetPEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC: $75,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKolbe Academy Inc: $48,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCARE2 FUND AT USLI INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPEAKUP: $27,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRADNOR CONSERVANCY: $19,500 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetWayne Art Center: $16,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRadnor High School Scholarship Fund: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER MEDICAL SERV CORPS OF LM & NAR: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANDY TALLEY BONE MARROW FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Community's Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREATMENT TRENDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestminster Homes of the Lehigh Valley: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLIGUORI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPETER'S PLACE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnite for HER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTODD K DELANEY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIABCN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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 UPLIFT SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Elevate 215 ↗
  • Who funds VINCERA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ELWYN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Kolbe Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds CARE2 FUND AT USLI INC ↗
  • Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
  • Who funds SPEAKUP ↗
  • Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Connelly FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Maguire FoundationHamilton Family Found…The William Penn Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Goldman Sachs Cha…United Way of Greater…The Gordon Charter Fo…The Patricia Kind Fam…Chubb Charitable Foun…
Connelly FoundationPA53.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Nerney Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nerney Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Hansen Foundation Inc: 25% of income from government
  • The Wetlands Institute: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Nerney Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Nerney Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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