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The Roemer 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 $10k18 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $495k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL BREAST HEALTH FUND | $1,100,000 |
| Brandywine Conservancy | $500,000 |
| THE CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL RESEARCH FUND | $125,000 |
| Abraham Cancer Center for the Rena Rowan Breast Center | $100,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $100,000 |
| THE CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND | $100,000 |
| UNITE FOR HER | $70,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY | $37,000 |
| STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER | $30,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS | $30,000 |
| VINCEREMOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $25,000 |
| The Foundation for the Horse | $25,000 |
| PALM BEACH FIRE RESCUE STATION 27 | $20,000 |
| COCHRANVILLE FIRE COMPANY | $20,000 |
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, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- CCCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +2%
- BCBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art5× · 2021–2025 · $800k · revenue +95%
- UFUnite for HER5× · 2021–2025 · $310k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- TCThe Chester County Hospital Fdn Dr Berman Reserveone grant, 2023 · $125k
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERSone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +10%
- R2RESCUE 22 FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +66%
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.
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Therapeutic Horseback Riding Inc and the most unlike its peers is Primitive Hall Foundation. 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 36 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 — 0.0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 55 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 CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Unite for HER ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COCHRANVILLE FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Vinceremos Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERS ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE 22 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds PANTHER RIDGE CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Hankin Foundation · Blue Yak Foundation · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Quaker City Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Buttonwood Family Foundation · Macelree Family Foundation
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 Roemer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% 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.
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