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The Philly Service Award
The organization engages and inspires philadelphia's youth by funding high schools with grants for student-led community service projects.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $150,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $249,327 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,327 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF CARVER HSES | $20,000 |
| MULTICULTERAL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOO | $20,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY CHARTER | $20,000 |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| NEW FOUNDATION CHARTER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| WEST CATHOLIC PREP HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VOCATIO CAREER PREP HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LANKENAU SCIENCE MAGNET | $10,000 |
| FIRST PHILADELPHIA PREP CHARTER SCH | $10,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 100% of your 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.
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.
We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…
Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.
Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.
The mission of the philadelphia electrical and technology charter high school is to develop students who will be employable in the emeraging high-tech industries; while giving students a strong foundation in the core academic…
A charter school for k-5 whose mission is to help every child find a pathway to a successful adult life in the city and beyond.
We are committed to academic excellence by vigorously engaging students in a rigorous, student-centered learning environment that will foster the development of global citizens.
Basic high school education for high school students.
Cresthaven academy charter school exists to provide a comprehensive education to our scholars that develops the whole child through academic excellence, physical wellness, emotional health and character enrichment.
Bradford is a college preparatory school committed to academic excellence, nurturing personal relationships, and inspiring a growing passion for creativity and learning in all of our students.
The mission of independence charter school (iacs) is to educate students of diverse ages and backgrounds - helping them understand, thrive in, and enhance our community, our environment,and our world. iacs regards learning as a continuing…
To educate each child according to age and development so that learning and growth are united, integrate the developing mind and body of the child with academics and the performing arts to ensure each child's excellence in core and…
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Foundations Charter School and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Gw Carver Hses. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 IMHOTEP INSTITUTE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Academy Charter School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GW CARVER HSES ↗
- Who funds SANKOFA FREEDOM ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW FOUNDATIONS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds First Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LANKENAU ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VOCATIO CAREER PREP HIGH SCHOOL ↗
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.
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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 Philly Service Award 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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