How much does The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund give?

The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund reported 25 grants totaling $56,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Arts & Culture (17%), Housing & Shelter (11%).

Who are The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Whyy Inc ($26k), The Franklin Institute ($14k), Bethesda Project ($13k).

Does The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wsfs Cares Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Where is The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund based?

The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund is based in PA.

The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund

The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund

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.

$56k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$80kArts & Culture$37kHousing & Shelter$24kHealth$19kEducation$16kScience & Tech$15kFood & Nutrition$7kInternational$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k23 grants · $21k
$10k–50k2 grants · $35k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$561k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WILLISTOWN CON TRUST	$25,000
WHY	$10,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY	$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHESTER COUNTY	$1,000
RAILS TO TRAILS	$1,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION	$1,000
PHILABUNDANCE	$1,000
CVIM	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$1,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE	$1,000
WORLD WILDFIRE FUND	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$201k · 36 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$201k

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+18%

Still filing today

58%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

WHYY INC
5× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +40%
TF
THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
3× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +27%
BP
BETHESDA PROJECT
5× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +12%

Funded once

PA
PHILADELPHIA ART MUSEUM
one grant, 2022 · $2k
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -9%
UL
US LACROSSE INC
one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +12%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment

Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…

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United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment

The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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

32 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. 32 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/32

Grantees still filing

26/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$104,750Arts & Culture$40,000Environment$29,250Health$16,750Housing & Shelter$13,000Education$7,250Food & Nutrition$7,000

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.

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.

Wsfs Cares FoundationDE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William L Oliver & Donna F Oliver Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home