· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD | $10,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wilbur C and Betty Lea Henderson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wilbur C and Betty Lea Henderson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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