· Community foundation
The Philadelphia Foundation
See schedule o.philadelphia foundation is one of the country's first publicly supported community foundations and the largest devoted to improving lives in greater philadelphia.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 715 grants below total $39,137,145 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $42,876,874 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,739,729 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k70 grants · $490k
- $10k–50k451 grants · $10M
- $50k–250k169 grants · $15M
- $250k+25 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METHOW HOUSING TRUST | $1,600,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $1,027,579 |
| BAYADA HOME HEALTHCARE | $1,000,000 |
| IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION | $850,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION | $850,000 |
| LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE | $850,000 |
| CULTURE CHANGING CHRISTIANS WORSHIP CENTER INC | $607,500 |
| MATERNITY CARE COALITION | $560,000 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS | $501,750 |
| IMS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| WELD SEATTLE | $500,000 |
| CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $462,500 |
| HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA | $406,646 |
| COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | $370,263 |
| FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $366,520 |
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 (FY17–24, $15.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 8% of The Philadelphia 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
1024 repeat relationships — 568 still active in FY2024, 456 since wound down; 128 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.6M 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
- MCMaternity Care Coalition8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +69%
- MHMETHOW HOUSING TRUST4× · 2018–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +148% · 64% of their budget
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +734%
Funded once
- CHCLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +3%
- VCVARIETY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2021 · $875k · revenue -25%
- TTENFOLDone grant, 2023 · $775k · revenue +5%
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.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
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
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…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
See schedule o.pidc-ldc administers, as a subrecipient of the city of philadelphia, various federally funded grant programs, including community development block grants, housing and urban development loans, and economic development…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graduate Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Unitarian Universalist House Out- Reach of Joseph Priestley District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1781 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. 1781 of the 1,984 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds METHOW HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Elevate 215 ↗
- Who funds TWISPWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY J & WILLEMINA B KUHN DAY CAMP ↗
- Who funds METHOW CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds SENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER OF MONTGO ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds IMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYADA HOME HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA KIDS IN CARE ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HILL COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
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: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Independence Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation 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 Philadelphia 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.
- Reach Riverside Development Corp — 100% of income from government
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc — 23% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community Action Inc — 6% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bayada Home Health Care Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.