· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| HAVEN MINISTRIES | $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 |
| RADNOR ABC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 81 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 158 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds JAYMAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC ↗
- 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 Radnor A Better Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Uncommon Individual Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Uncommon Individual Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rider University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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