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The Two Dimes Charitable Foundation Trust

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$20kHuman Services$12kHealth$7kEducation$7kPhilanthropy$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$600Science & Tech$500Recreation & Sports$265Other$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
4
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Peter Church$3,600
Lock Haven University Fd$1,200
Cathlolic Charities Appeal$1,100
United Way of Chester Co$1,000
Society of St Vincent DePaul$500
Alzheimer's Assoc$400
St Joseph House$300
Chester County Library Tr$300
Brandywine Valley Active Agin$300
Archbishops Ben for Children$275
A Haven$200
NMSS$100
Milton Model Train Musuem$100
Wagontown Vol Fire Co$100
St Boniface Church$75
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 (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Inglis Foundation: $1k → 22%Inglis Foundation: $1k → 22%Inglis Foundation: $1k → 22%St Joseph House: $300 → 6%St Joseph House: $250 → 6%St Joseph House: $250 → 6%St Joseph House: $100 → 6%Lord's Pantry of Downingtown: $100 → 6%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

IL
PA
CO
MD
TN
SC
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 19 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$53k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+10%

Still filing today

42%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +13%
  • IF
    INGLIS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +31%
  • BV
    BRANDYWINE VALLEY ACTIVE AGING
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $290
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $165 · revenue +35%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100 · revenue +74%
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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Jevs Care At Home

Jevs care at home provides non-medical home care services that support older adults and adults with disabilities with activities of daily living. see schedule o for additional details.our goal aligns with the mission and vision of jevs…

Human Services
2
Life St Mary

We, trinity health pace and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.life st. mary is a member of trinity health pace and trinity health.

Health
3
Vincentian Collaborative System Charitable Foundation

Compelled by the love of christ, vincentian charitable foundation nurtures and sustains a ministry of compassionate care that preserves the human dignity of persons within a diverse and changing society. vcf exists to be a catalyst for…

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4
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Allentown Inc

Catholic charities, diocese of allentown serves as a living expression of christ's love by providing compassionate, professional services, advocacy, and hope to individuals, families, and communities, regardless of faith while respecting…

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5
Philadelphia County Medical Society

The mission of the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.

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6
Chambersburg Health Services

Chambersburg health services is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing cancer treatment and developing and supporting medical centers for its wellspan tax-exempt affiliaties within franklin county, pennsylvania.

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7
Saint Joseph's Health System Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

Health
8
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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9
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
10
St Joseph's Health At Home Inc

We, trinity home health services and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's health at home is a member of trinity home health…

Health
11
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…

Health
12
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance; the most unlike its peers is Wagontown Volunteer Fire Company. 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

14 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. 14 of the 30 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Peter Church: $18,525 · OtherSt Peter ChurchCathlolic Charities Appeal: $6,350 · OtherCathlolic Charities AppealLock Haven University Fd: $6,200 · OtherLock Haven University FdUnited Way of Chester Co: $6,000 · OtherUnited Way of Chester CoSt Vincent De Paul Society: $1,500 · Other+13 more: $5,415 · Other+13 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,201 · HealthALZHEIMER'…A HAVEN: $753 · HealthA HAVEN+2 more: $200 · HealthINGLIS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesSt Josephs House Inc: $900 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesWAGONTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $600 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 · Public Safety & DisasterSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $165 · Recreation & SportsMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $150 · AnimalsPhilabundance: $100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$43,990Health$5,154Human Services$4,000Public Safety & Disaster$700Recreation & Sports$165Animals$150Food & Nutrition$100

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 budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,201 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINGLIS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY ACTIVE AGING: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Josephs House Inc: $900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA HAVEN: $753 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWAGONTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $165 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLORD'S PANTRY OF DOWNINGTOWN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INGLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY ACTIVE AGING ↗
  • Who funds St Josephs House Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF PHILADE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds A HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds WAGONTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds Montgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds LORD'S PANTRY OF DOWNINGTOWN ↗

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Two Dimes Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Two Dimes Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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