· Private foundation
Thomas a and Kathleen R Bruder 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $6,000 |
| MARPLE NEWTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| KINNEY CENTER FOR AUTISM | $5,000 |
| RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $4,625 |
| NEUMANN UNIVERSITY | $4,625 |
| YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP | $4,250 |
| ST KATHERINE OF SIENNA SCHOOL | $3,125 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| EAGLES AUTISM FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD CHURCH | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ATHLETICS | $1,250 |
| CARON | $1,250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 9 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2020–2025 · $46k
- KCKINNEY CENTER FOR AUTISM7× · 2019–2025 · $35k
- SKST KATHERINE OF SIENA3× · 2019–2021 · $28k
Funded once
- LCLASALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $3k
- SDST DENIS CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $3k
- GFGIRLS FIRSTone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -14%
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.
See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
An independent college preparatory school for girls from age three through twelfth grade.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The Montessori School educates children from 18 months-6th grade. Our program is rooted in the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori faithful to her method. In our caring environment, sustained by freedom peace, the school…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neumann University and the most unlike its peers is Saint David's Nursery School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 34 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 MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEUMANN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FIRST ↗
- Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Benchmark School ↗
- Who funds SAINT DAVID'S NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPEAKUP ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
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: Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Maguire Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Jeff and Kathy Siegfried Family Foundation · The Howley Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Equitable Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable 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 Thomas a and Kathleen R Bruder 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.
- Florida Southern College — 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.