Pennsylvania · Private foundation
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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 94
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 31
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $94M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Uncommon Individual Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 93 | $634k | 87% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $844k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $304k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $527k | 81% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $212k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Calliope Joy Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Liguori Inc | $222,961 | 4 | 3% |
| New Jersey Scholars Elite | $100,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School | $79,549 | 1 | 0% |
| Surrey Services for Seniors Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hope for Kids Inc | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunrise of Philadelphia | $28,890 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Volunteers in Medicine | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jaymar Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Little Flower Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 125 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Uncommon Individual Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Uncommon Individual Foundation
- How much does Uncommon Individual Foundation give?
- Uncommon Individual Foundation reported 94 grants totaling $1,133,704 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 31 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Uncommon Individual Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Education (22%), Health (9%).
- Who are Uncommon Individual Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Calliope Joy Foundation ($250k), Liguori Inc ($223k), New Jersey Scholars Elite ($100k).
- Does Uncommon Individual Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Uncommon Individual Foundation 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 Uncommon Individual Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Wsfs Cares Foundation, Connelly Foundation.
- Where is Uncommon Individual Foundation based?
- Uncommon Individual Foundation is based in PA.
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