· Private foundation
Widener Memorial Foundation in Aid of Handicapped Children
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of WIDENER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION IN AID OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $735k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA | $220,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA | $100,000 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $95,240 |
| LASALLE UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
| PEGASUS RIDING ACADEMY INC | $54,840 |
| EASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA | $50,000 |
| NEMOURS FUND FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $50,000 |
| ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES | $50,000 |
| SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| MUSICOPIA | $30,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT EAST | $25,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $23,700 |
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 (FY18–24, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 10% 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 9 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- SMSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA7× · 2018–2024 · $330k · revenue +70%
- AWACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES7× · 2018–2024 · $276k · revenue +151%
- ESEASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA5× · 2018–2024 · $240k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TWTHE WIDENER MEMORIAL SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $150k
- NSNEMOURS - SHANDS HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $55k
- YOYMCA OF BUCKS COUUNTYone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
Easter seals eastern pa creates life-changing solutions for individuals with disablities and their families in their community by increasing independence, maximizing opportunities, minimizing barriers and enhancing quality of life.
To provide therapeautic benefits to handicapped citizens through a horseback riding program.
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
Provide quality programs and facilities to help the individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities entrusted to our care live with purpose, dignity and to provide opportunities to grow and function at their full potential and as…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals of Southeastern Pa and the most unlike its peers is Hammerheads Sled Hockey Associationinc. 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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 46 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 Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT EAST ↗
- Who funds HAMMERHEADS SLED HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Special Equestrians Inc ↗
- Who funds MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS ↗
- Who funds RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 1812 PRODUCTIONS 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 · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Child Development Foundation · Foundations Community Partnership · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
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 Widener Memorial Foundation in Aid of Handicapped Children 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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