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The Phamsquad Foundation at a glance

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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.

$454k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Youth Development$556kEducation$487kHealth$257kRecreation & Sports$112kPhilanthropy$21kInternational$11kCrime & Legal$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDING FORWARD$125,000
JUNIATA COLLEGE$100,000
THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL$90,000
THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$25,000
J WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST$20,000
COBBS CREEK FOUNDATION$20,000
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE$20,000
BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL$20,000
THE PAT SUMMITT FOUNDATION$10,000
LEGACY FOUNDATION$5,700
WOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK (W G G B)$5,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$5,000
SAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC$5,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PA$1,500
ACADEMY OF MUSIC OF PHILADELPHIA$1,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MELMARK INC: $1k → 6%SAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC: $5k → 10%SAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC: $1k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Phamsquad Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Phamsquad Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 20 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
10

Total granted

$1.4M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-23%

Still filing today

75%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION)
    3× · 2023–2025 · $375k · revenue +66%
  • JC
    JUNIATA COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +16%
  • TA
    THE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2025 · $161k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • FA
    FLYERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • DA
    DOMESTIC ABUSE PROJECT OF DELAWARE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • CS
    Comcast Spectacor Charities Flyers Wives Fight For Livesgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +77%
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 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
2
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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3
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
4
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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…

Education
5
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
6
The Public School of Germantown

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…

Education
7
Albright College

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

Education
8
Golf Association of Philadelphia Foundation
Recreation & Sports
9
Wilson College

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

Education
10
Cedar Crest College

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…

Education
11
La Roche University

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.

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Agnes Irwin School; 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.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUNIATA COLLEGE: $180,000 · EducationJUNIATA COLLEGETHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $161,000 · EducationTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOLLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $60,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGEEsperanza Academy Charter School: $40,000 · EducationEsperanza Academy Charter School+2 more: $11,033 · EducationFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $375,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY TH…+1 more: $1,100 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH WORK FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA: $125,000 · OtherYOUTH WORK FOUNDATION OF …BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL: $110,000 · OtherBRYN MAWR HOSPITALJ WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $45,000 · OtherJ WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOL…PAT SUMMITT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherPAT SUMMITT FOUNDATION+9 more: $29,000 · Other+9 moreTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE COBBS C…THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $53,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST T…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $108,000 · HealthBREASTCANCERORG: $6,000 · HealthLEGACY FOUNDATION: $20,700 · PhilanthropyGARY AND VIVIENNE PLAYER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropySAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesMELMARK INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesACADEMY OF MUSIC OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$452,033Youth Development$376,100Other$329,000Recreation & Sports$153,000Health$114,000Philanthropy$21,700Human Services$7,000Arts & Culture$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $375,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE: $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $161,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $108,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $53,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJ WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEsperanza Academy Charter School: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY FOUNDATION: $20,700 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetComcast Spectacor Charities Flyers Wives Fight For Lives: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACADEMY OF MUSIC OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPETER'S PLACE: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $1,033 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY AND VIVIENNE PLAYER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMELMARK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

United Way of Greater…The Nerney Family Fou…Connelly FoundationThe William Penn Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …Daniels Family Founda…The Philadelphia Foun…Chubb Charitable Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…The Ayco Charitable F…The US Charitable Gif…Morgan Stanley Global…
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Phamsquad Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Phamsquad Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Phamsquad Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Phamsquad 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 30 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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