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Uncommon Individual 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k81 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $500,000 |
| LIGUORI ACADEMY | $110,000 |
| THE BAUM SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL | $79,549 |
| HOPE FOR KIDS | $35,000 |
| NEW JERSEY SCHOLARS | $30,000 |
| HAVEN MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| VILLANOVA ATHLETIC TICKET OFFICE | $22,680 |
| DEB TIAGWAD MEMORIAL FUND | $17,000 |
| BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM | $11,800 |
| EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,675 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHESTER PA | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those 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.
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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 82 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k 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
- LILIGUORI INC4× · 2021–2025 · $223k · revenue +252%
- NJNEW JERSEY SCHOLARS ELITE4× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +63%
- CBCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- VCVanguard Charitableone grant, 2024 · $500k
- TCTHE CALLIOPE JOY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -47%
- RMRonald McDonald Houseone grant, 2024 · $100k
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 Sow Good Now and the most unlike its peers is Jaymar Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 161 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE CALLIOPE JOY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGUORI INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SCHOLARS ELITE ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JAYMAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds ANDREW L HICKS JR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Radnor A Better Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
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 Philadelphia Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Uncommon Individual 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.
- Rider University — 1% 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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