· Private foundation
Withington Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k26 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $440k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $689k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLBY SAWYER COLLEGE | $175,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA | $160,000 |
| COBBS CREEK FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNVERSITY | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL | $53,900 |
| CUREBOUND | $50,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,500 |
| MT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER | $27,900 |
| CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS | $27,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO | $25,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY | $20,000 |
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, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +55% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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
Bucknell University8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +45%- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $876k · revenue +6%
- CCCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- MMMORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $30k
- TPTHE PECK SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +10%
- JHJEFFERSON HOSPITAL OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morristown-Beard School and the most unlike its peers is Kanawha Salines Foundation Inc. 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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 90 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 Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds Highlands Historical Society ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Independence Seaport Museum ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Main Line Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LOCHLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE BABIES ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER 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: Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
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 Withington Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Morristown-Beard School — 0% of income from government
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.