· Private foundation
The Wilbur C and Betty Lea Henderson Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $583k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $333,333 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY - BRANDYWINE | $250,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| HOPE & HEALING AT HILLENGLADE | $100,000 |
| FRANKLIN MINT CREDIT UNION FDTN | $50,000 |
| FULTON COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY'S FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| HOMER HOYT INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FULTON COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| SIM USA | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| FULTON COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER | $14,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $10,000 |
| LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +9%
- FCFulton County Medical Center9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +16%
- HHHOMER HOYT INSTITUE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- VV-NEPone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TTTEACHERS' TEAMMATES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +34%
- VNVETERANS' NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -91%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Delaware County and the most unlike its peers is Homer Hoyt Institue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 26 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 DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Fulton County Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Community's Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOMER HOYT INSTITUE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS' TEAMMATES INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS' NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
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.
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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 Wilbur C and Betty Lea Henderson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cradles to Crayons 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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