· Private foundation
Union Benevolent Association
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Common Place | $60,000 |
| African Cultural Alliance of North America Inc | $60,000 |
| Coalition of African Communities | $60,000 |
| Lift Every Voice Philly Inc | $50,000 |
| American family Health organization | $50,000 |
| Southwest Community Development Corp | $50,000 |
| Attic Youth Center | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $553k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 2 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- AFAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION4× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +112%
- COCoalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom3× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +64%
- ACAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA2× · 2022–2024 · $66k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- COCOALITION OF AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN COMMUNITIES (AFRICOM)one grant, 2020 · $35k
- PEPEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER CDCone grant, 2020 · $35k
- PCPHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY BAIL FUND CO MEDIA MOBILIZING PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
Mentoring and educational programs for female youth
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Driving change from the ground up, the urban affairs coalition (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging…
Pcca's mission is to strengthen households and communities by developing and preserving homeownership and affordable housing, and educating consumers to increase accessability to economic opportunities.
To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.
The Philadelphia Prevention Partnership is a coalition of community partnerships sharing the common goal of preventing substance abuse Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the long term throughout the City.
Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopephl and the most unlike its peers is Outside the Bars. 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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
134 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. 134 of the 178 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 AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Coalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Common Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
- Who funds LIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY INC ↗
- Who funds FEAST OF JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CEIBA INC ↗
- Who funds Esperanza Immigration Legal Services ↗
- Who funds Why Not Prosper Inc ↗
- Who funds Cradle of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITIES SOUTHEAST PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SELF INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds DAWN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA COALITION AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTEDLY ↗
- Who funds THE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROJECT ↗
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 · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Independence Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust
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 Union Benevolent Association 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.
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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