· Private foundation
The Thomas a Fillippo Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k7 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PAOLI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY BOY SCOUTS | $2,500 |
| WAYNE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| HELP HOPE LIVE | $500 |
| ALS | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $300 |
| CHARLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100 |
| JUST FOR PA KIDS | $75 |
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 10% of your 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- WCWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $51k · revenue +6%
- PMPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +59%
- HIHELPHOPELIVE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BLBILL LATOFF CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BVBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +142%
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 serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The chester county historical society (the "society") is a nonprofit organization established to inspire, inform and build community identity by preserving and sharing the remarkable story of chester county and its people. the society…
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
The mission of main line hospitals, inc. is to provide a comprehensive range of safe, high quality health services, complemented by educational and research activities that meet healthcare needs and improve the quality of life in the…
The organization's exempt purpose is to raise funds to support charitable,educational & scientific purposes of its tax-exempt affiliate the hospital for special surgery, and other health care related charitable organizations.
Establish, maintain, sponsor, and promote activities relating to the improvement of human health and the provision of care to the sick and injured through its wholly owned subsidiary, AHS Hospital Corp. The system provides the Hospital…
Raises funds to meet the mission of upmc somerset.
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 organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Johns hopkins all children's foundation, inc. supports the mission of johns hopkins all children's hospital, inc., all children's health system, inc., all children's research institute, inc. and other 501(c)(3) organizations through…
To improve the health and well-being of the people of chautauqua county and the surrounding area in a way that includes compassion, dedication, a commitment to quality and patient safety while maintaining economic viability and a vision…
The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Chester University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Charlestown Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
- Who funds KIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN KNAUER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
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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 Thomas a Fillippo 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.
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.