· Private foundation
Wsfs Cares Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k235 grants · $917k
- $10k–50k81 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k7 grants · $485k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BE READY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| TEENSHARP - WILMINGTON DE | $100,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS INC | $80,000 |
| DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC | $55,000 |
| DELAWARE PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP INC | $50,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES | $50,000 |
| DELAWARE PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP INC | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA & SOUTHERN NJ | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE | $40,000 |
| CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL | $38,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $33,334 |
| FREIRE CHARTER SCHOOL WILMINGTON | $33,333 |
| WILMINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVANCY LAND BANK | $33,333 |
| DELAWARE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE EDUCATION COMMITTEE | $33,333 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DELAWARE | $30,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $726k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% 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 +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
277 repeat relationships — 213 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 92 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $669k 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
- TWTEEN WAREHOUSE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $225k · revenue +12%
- DPDELAWARE PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP INC2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +3%
- BRBe Ready Community Development Corporation2× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TTEENSHARPone grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $60k
- CGCONNECTING GENERATIONSone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +19%
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.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Gpca's mission is to break the cycle of generational proverty by ensuring equitable distribution of the resources for vulnerable children, families, and communities. our vision is to be philadelphia's catalyst for community empowerment and…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
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Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
The organization provides alternative dispute resolution services through delaware and chester counties.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graduate Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is A Love for Life 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
392 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. 392 of the 535 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TEEN WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Be Ready Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds TEENSHARP ↗
- Who funds Sunday Breakfast Mission ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds DISTANCE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE EDUCATION COMMITTEE (THE) ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds CITYFEST INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER HORIZON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING EXCESS ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LISAS ARMY INC ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEUR WORKS FUND ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN SHIPYARD MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE ↗
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Crestlea Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation 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 Wsfs Cares 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc — 100% of income from government
- Latin American Economic Development Association Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pathways to Success Inc — 95% of income from government
- Connecting Generations — 89% of income from government
- First State Community Action Agency Inc — 83% of income from government
- Delaware Futures Inc — 78% of income from government
- Housing Alliance Delaware — 74% of income from government
- Family Promise of Northern New Castle County — 73% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Justice — 73% of income from government
- Community Education Building Corp — 64% of income from government
- Central Baptist Community Development Corporation — 60% of income from government
- United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
- Cheer Inc — 51% of income from government
- People's Place Ii Inc — 51% of income from government
- Wilmington Neighborhood Conservancy Land Bank Corporation — 51% of income from government
- Ywca Delaware Inc — 50% of income from government
- True Access Capital Corporation — 48% of income from government
- Westside Family Healthcare Inc — 48% of income from government
- St Michael's School and Nursery Inc — 48% of income from government
- Christiana Care Health System Inc — 43% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Delaware — 40% of income from government
- Leading Youth Through Empowerment Inc — 39% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Society Inc — 38% of income from government
- Project New Start Inc — 37% of income from government
- Delaware Council On Economic Education — 37% of income from government
- West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
- Veterans Watchmaker Initiative Inc — 34% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Teen Warehouse Inc — 28% of income from government
- Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation — 26% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Sussex County Habitat for Humanity — 23% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County — 21% of income from government
- Wilmington Alliance Inc — 19% of income from government
- Financial Wellness Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Delaware College Scholars Inc — 18% of income from government
- Delaware Zoological Society Inc — 16% of income from government
- Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council Inc — 14% of income from government
- Teensharp — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Children's Museum Inc — 11% of income from government
- Operadelaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sussex Montessori School Inc — 9% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Hbcu Week Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cityfest Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Prosperity Partnership Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware — 1% of income from government
- The Independence School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Freire Charter School Wilmington Inc — 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.
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