· Public charity
The Wawa Foundation Inc
The foundation will make grants to section 501(c)3 charitable organizations whose focus is health related issues, combating hunger, and benefitting everyday heroes which are generally located in the geographic area where the foundation's fundraising occurs.
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.
The 174 grants below total $15,423,361 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,009,876 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,586,515 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $245k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k35 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+14 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY INC | $1,696,935 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,524,681 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $1,215,696 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC | $1,113,296 |
| CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK | $999,607 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $896,330 |
| THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $823,333 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $475,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY | $395,275 |
| THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $390,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC | $336,096 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA INC | $323,967 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $300,000 |
| VARIETY-THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $165,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $12.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
268 repeat relationships — 139 still active in FY2024, 129 since wound down; 33 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $483k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $8.8M · revenue +46%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8.8M · revenue +4%
- CFCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +97%
Funded once
- CFCHOP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $500k
- KKKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
MARCH OF DIMES INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -41%
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.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
We, trinity health of the mid-atlantic region and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health of the mid-atlantic is a member of…
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.
The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…
We, trinity health of the mid-atlantic region and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy catholic medical center of southeastern…
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley and the most unlike its peers is Cypress Gardens Water Ski Team Inc. 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 32 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
425 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. 425 of the 459 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds EDEN AUTISM SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Institute For Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY 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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Phillies Charities Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Connelly Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Cigna Group 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 Wawa 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.
- Hope Exists Foundation Inc — 60% of income from government
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- Community Treatment Solutions Inc — 37% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- Feeding Florida Inc — 32% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Camp Barnes Inc — 13% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jewish Family Services of Atlantic County Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
- Elijahs Promise Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.
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