· Private foundation
Willow Grove Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k38 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST | $100,500 |
| OLD YORK ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE | $11,100 |
| LAUREL HOUSE | $6,000 |
| CRADLE OF HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| BRIAR BUSH NATURE CENTER | $4,500 |
| THE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CHELTEN BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,500 |
| ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| CHELTEN BAPTIST SEEDS OF HOPE FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| DICKENS AUXILIARY OF THE AHF WOMAN'S BOARD AMH | $2,500 |
| SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| WILLOW GROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $2,500 |
| CONCERN | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–18, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +212% since the first grant, against +90% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 58% 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
- FPFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +212%
- COCradle of Hope Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +304%
- CSCENTER SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- UMUPPER MORELAND YOUTH AND DRUG COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +90%
- BCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $4k
- EGEVERY GOOD GIFTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +181%
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.
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…
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…
As a private non-profit health and human services organization, maternal and family health services (mfhs) works to meet the health and nutrition needs of northeastern pennsylvania's women, children, and families with essential…
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
Public health management corporation (phmc) is a nonprofit public health institute that creates and sustains healthier communities. phmc uses best practices to improve community health through direct service, partnership, innovation,…
Accessmatters' mission is to protect, expand, and enhance access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. accessmatters fulfills its mission by providing services and information directly to people, by…
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
The mission of princeton healthcare system is to provide exceptional, compassionate care to enhance the health and wellness of our patients, their families, and our community. princeton healthcare system provides inpatient and outpatient…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise Montco Pa and the most unlike its peers is Old York Road Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 52 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 PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds OLD YORK ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA ↗
- Who funds Cradle of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UPPER MORELAND YOUTH AND DRUG COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW GROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds EVERY GOOD GIFT ↗
- Who funds CENTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEALTHLINK DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BUX-MONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AND POLICE TOGETHER ↗
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 Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vesta Fund · The Windmill Foundation Inc · Montgomery County Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Healthspark Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
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 Willow Grove Foundation 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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