· Private foundation
The William Penn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k354 grants · $705k
- $10k–50k150 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k399 grants · $51M
- $250k+124 grants · $94M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $7,777,255 |
| DELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATION | $7,000,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC | $5,000,000 |
| FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY | $3,455,084 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA | $3,000,000 |
| FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,500,000 |
| MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $2,000,000 |
| NATIONAL NURSE-LED CARE CONSORTIUM | $2,000,000 |
| CENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION | $2,000,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA CLEF CLUB OF THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $2,000,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $1,850,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA SOCCER 2026 | $1,500,000 |
| REINVESTMENT FUND INC | $1,500,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND | $1,260,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $32.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The William Penn Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
923 repeat relationships — 574 still active in FY2024, 349 since wound down; 135 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.1M 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
- PCPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +29%
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION5× · 2020–2024 · $13M · revenue +90%
- OSOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $8.9M · revenue +92%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF CALDER GARDENSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +362%
- RSREDSTONE STRATEGY GROUPone grant, 2021 · $486k
- TSThe Schuylkill Center For Environmental Educationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $450k · revenue +54%
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.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
See schedule o.pidc-ldc administers, as a subrecipient of the city of philadelphia, various federally funded grant programs, including community development block grants, housing and urban development loans, and economic development…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultureworks Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Kurt Cobain Music Education Project. 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 31 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
1192 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. 1192 of the 1,464 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE REINVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds National Nurse-Led Care Consortium ↗
- Who funds Public Health Management Corporation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST UP ↗
- Who funds CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Children First PA ↗
- Who funds The Corps Network ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds Clean Air Council ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The University of the Arts · Wyncote 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 William Penn 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.
- Camden Community Partnership Inc — 94% of income from government
- Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc — 69% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Musconetcong Watershed Association — 14% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Center for Supportive Schools Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Jersey Future Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- American Littoral Society — 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.