· Private foundation
The Townsend Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $457k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+10 grants · $6.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA | $1,500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200,000 |
| CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS | $1,000,000 |
| HOPEWORKS | $500,000 |
| U-GO INITIATIVE | $500,000 |
| HOPEWORKS | $500,000 |
| U-GO INITIATIVE | $350,000 |
| NETWORK ADVOCATES FOR CATH SOC JUST | $350,000 |
| MIGHTY WRITERS | $350,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $250,000 |
| CAMDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FDN | $200,000 |
| INTERFAITH HOMELESS OUTREACH COUNCI | $200,000 |
| BERKS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNT | $125,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k 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
- HPHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA7× · 2018–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +332%
- H'HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +576%
MIGHTY WRITERS8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +521%
Funded once
- UU-GOone grant, 2022 · $500k
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2018 · $425k
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +12%
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.
Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…
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…
Foundations is dedicated to improving the quality of education for our nation's most vulnerable children by strengthening the skills of educators through professional learning. foundations, inc. is a not-for-profit educational service…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…
With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…
Summary
Read alliance, inc (read alliance) works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities. read impacts two populations…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reading Partners and the most unlike its peers is Interfaith Homeless Outreach Council. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 90 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 CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds U-GO INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds NETWORK EDUCATION PROGRAM NETWORK ADVOCATES FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BOOKSMILES A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Homeless Outreach Council ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds BESS THE BOOK BUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN 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: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Domenica Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · Ravitz Family Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Td Charitable Foundation · David and Marilyn Krupnick 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 Townsend Foundation Inc 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Booksmiles a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Bess the Book Bus Inc — 0% 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.