New Jersey · Private foundation
The Townsend Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 45
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The Townsend Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $855k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $8.5M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $7.2M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $6.1M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $3.8M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $5.2M | 42% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $3.7M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $4.2M | 29% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $4.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Partnership Schools Camden | $6,750,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Heights Philadelphia | $5,200,000 | 7 | 19% |
| Hopeworks 'N Camden Inc | $3,880,171 | 8 | 18% |
| Mighty Writers | $3,365,000 | 8 | 19% |
| Donorschooseorg | $1,802,618 | 7 | 0% |
| Camden Catholic High School | $1,736,265 | 8 | n/a |
| U-Go Initiative | $1,350,000 | 2 | 16% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $1,210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $900,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Room to Read | $800,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Townsend Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Townsend Foundation Inc
- How much does The Townsend Foundation Inc give?
- The Townsend Foundation Inc reported 48 grants totaling $8,506,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Townsend Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Youth Development (11%), Employment (9%).
- Who are The Townsend Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Catholic Partnership Schools Camden ($6.8M), Heights Philadelphia ($5.2M), Hopeworks 'N Camden Inc ($3.9M).
- Does The Townsend Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Townsend Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Townsend Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is The Townsend Foundation Inc based?
- The Townsend Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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