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The Welsh 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| SQUASH SMARTS OF PHILADELPHIA | $2,262 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $2,000 |
| ISAA | $1,500 |
| HOPE PHL | $1,500 |
| AERIAL RECOVERY | $1,353 |
| THE NINEVAH FOUNDATION | $1,035 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| BROAD STREET MINISTRY OF PHILADELPHIA | $1,000 |
| NURTURING MINDS | $1,000 |
| FIRST STEP STAFFING | $1,000 |
| J WOOD PLATT SCHOLARSHIP FOR CADDIES | $936 |
| HADDONFIELD FRIENDS SCHOOL | $513 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF AMERICA | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 17 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +22%
- CVCAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +70%
- SISQUASHSMARTS INC2× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- JWJANINE WERT ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP2× · 2022–2023 · $5k
- IOIHN OF MAIN LINEone grant, 2021 · $4k
- SSSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
JJPI is a specialized organization that provides prevention and treatment services in the areas of sexual and interpersonal violence, post-traumatic stress disorder and other forms of trauma, infant and early childhood mental health, and…
Strives to permanently break the cycle of poverty for philadelphia families
The mission of women's center & shelter of greater pittsburgh is to strengthen our ability to meet the individual and evolving needs of those affected by domestic violence by investing in the growth of our people, deepening community…
The agency's mission states "pinebrook family answers nurtures and empowers children, adults and families by providing mental health services and community-based programs throughout the greater lehigh valley. we do this through initiatives…
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
A living legacy of john wanamaker, philly house's mission is to open their doors every day with a welcoming spirit of christian compassion, walking alongside the homeless, hungry, and hurting of philadelphia so that they may experience the…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 50 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEPHL ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AERIAL RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NINEVAH FOUNDATION DBA FARM AND WILDERNESS CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA ↗
- Who funds HALF A SORROW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds First Step Staffing Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION 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 · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Neubauer Family Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
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 Welsh Foundation 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.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation 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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