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The Phamsquad 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDING FORWARD | $125,000 |
| JUNIATA COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL | $90,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $25,000 |
| COBBS CREEK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| J WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST | $20,000 |
| BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| THE PAT SUMMITT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LEGACY FOUNDATION | $5,700 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK (W G G B) | $5,000 |
| SAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PA | $1,500 |
| ACADEMY OF MUSIC OF PHILADELPHIA | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 100% of The Phamsquad 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, 98% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — 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 +33% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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
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
- FFFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION)3× · 2023–2025 · $375k · revenue +66%
- JCJUNIATA COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +16%
- TATHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL4× · 2021–2025 · $161k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- FAFLYERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k
- DADOMESTIC ABUSE PROJECT OF DELAWAREone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CSComcast Spectacor Charities Flyers Wives Fight For Livesgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +77%
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 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,…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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 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…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Cedar crest college is a liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. the college prepares students for life in a global community by educating the whole student at all stages of…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Agnes Irwin School and the most unlike its peers is Legacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds JUNIATA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WORK FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds J WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Academy Charter School ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds Comcast Spectacor Charities Flyers Wives Fight For Lives ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF MUSIC OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds MELMARK INC ↗
- Who funds GARY AND VIVIENNE PLAYER 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: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Nerney Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Daniels Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Phamsquad 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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