· Private foundation
Widener Memorial Foundation in Aid of Handicapped Children
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 46 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Widener Memorial Foundation in Aid of Handicapped Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Widener Memorial Foundation in Aid of Handicapped Children. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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