· Private foundation
The Tally 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $351k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| BENCHMARK SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST | $30,000 |
| GRIER SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $25,000 |
| RYERSS FARM FOR AGED EQUINES | $25,000 |
| MARK DAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN WILD HORSE CAMPAIGN | $20,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF | $20,000 |
| WESTTOWN SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| SALT RIVER WILD HORSES | $15,000 |
| FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC SUGARTOWN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EAEpiscopal Academy7× · 2019–2025 · $255k · revenue +32%
- BSBenchmark School7× · 2019–2025 · $183k · revenue +38%
- MDMARK DAY SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $180k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- CCCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANKone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
At mercersburg academy we embrace the values of hard work, character, and community while learning to balance independence with interdependence and individual humility with collective pride. our students commit to a life of learning, seek…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Provide a rigorous education and encourage pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work.
See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Benchmark School ↗
- Who funds MARK DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines ↗
- Who funds GRIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Orme School ↗
- Who funds THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SUGARTOWN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds CHESTER CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammal Stranding Center ↗
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.
Open a dossier: E Murdoch Family Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Boudinot Foundation · First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tally Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tally Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Marine Mammal Stranding Center: 10% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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