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The Thomas and Tracey Gravina Foundation at a glance

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The Thomas and Tracey Gravina Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$495k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.3MRecreation & Sports$428kHealth$273kYouth Development$235kHousing & Shelter$155kHuman Services$118kPhilanthropy$78kReligion$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $129k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $322k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$100,000
WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC$88,333
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$78,350
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL$55,000
COBBS CREEK FOUNDATION$35,200
JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM$25,000
BROTHERS OF THE ORDER OF HERMITS$16,667
PHILLYSAFE$12,500
WOMENS WAY$10,000
PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WEST PALM BEACH POLICE FUND INC$10,000
INDEPENDENCE TRUST$8,333
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$6,000
THE PHILADELPHIA CITIZEN$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%SILOAM: $2k → 22%FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS: $3k → 10%MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 9%KENS KREW INC: $5k → 17%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE INC: $10k → 22%KENS KREW INC: $5k → 17%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE INC: $10k → 22%GETINCLUDED INC: $5k → 7%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE INC: $5k → 22%THE CAT COLLABORATIVE: $5k → 22%FORT FREEDOM: $3k → 11%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $3k → 22%THE CAT COLLABORATIVE: $500 → 22%WOMENS WAY: $10k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $1k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
MN
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 22 repeat orgs$381k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
44

Total granted

$2.1M
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+25%

Still filing today

91%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $689k · revenue +39%
  • WP
    WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $255k · revenue +75%
  • PY
    PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +656%

Funded once

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • WA
    WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +66%
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.

04Its field

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.

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The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
5
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Point Park University

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…

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8
Delaware Valley University

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…

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9
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
10
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
11
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Cat Collaborative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
45/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $688,863 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $400,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $61,500 · Education+10 more: $100,950 · Education+10 moreWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $254,999 · OtherWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRU…West Palm Beach Police Fund Inc: $31,000 · OtherON THE RIGHT PATH: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 · OtherSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $50,000 · OtherSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING C…Philabundance: $60,000 · OtherPhilabundanceTHE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM: $25,000 · OtherWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 · Other+33 more: $206,906 · Other+33 morePHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA Y…THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $157,700 · Recreation & SportsTHE COBBS CREE…THE HERREN PROJECT: $100,000 · HealthTHE HERREN…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $92,500 · HealthAMERICAN C…American Heart Association Inc: $55,000 · HealthAmerican H…+5 more: $8,750 · HealthCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $155,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE FOR PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $27,500 · Human ServicesWOMENS WAY: $10,000 · Human ServicesKEN'S KREW: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAT COLLABORATIVE: $5,500 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGETINCLUDED INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFIRST GENERATION INVESTORS: $3,450 · Human ServicesFORT FREEDOM INC: $2,500 · Human Services+4 more: $4,100 · Human ServicesTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRANALEITH SPIRITUAL CENTER: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Education$1,251,313Other$727,905Recreation & Sports$357,700Health$256,250Community Improvement$155,000Human Services$73,050Philanthropy$72,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $688,863 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $254,999 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $200,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $157,700 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetTHE HERREN PROJECT: $100,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $92,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $61,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWest Palm Beach Police Fund Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $27,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetINDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST: $16,667 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DELAWARE VALLEY CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $16,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetPHILLYSAFE: $12,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWOMENS WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCoalition For Open Democracy: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEN'S KREW: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $6,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA CITIZEN: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CAT COLLABORATIVE: $5,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF COMPASS INC: $5,231 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERB-IT-FORWARD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION 300 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST GENERATION INVESTORS: $3,450 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRANALEITH SPIRITUAL CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Smiles (PA) Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Connelly FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Future Standard Found…The Daniel B and Flor…The William Penn Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Forman Family Fou…The Neubauer Family F…The Barra Foundation …Sidney and Sandy Brow…Poor Richard's Charit…The Green Family Char…
Connelly FoundationPA35.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connelly Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Forman Family Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Sidney and Sandy Brown Foundation Inc · Poor Richard's Charitable Trust · The Green Family Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Thomas and Tracey Gravina Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas and Tracey Gravina Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Thomas and Tracey Gravina Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Thomas and Tracey Gravina Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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