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Wyncote Foundation

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.

$26M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
139
Grants FY2024
147
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$73,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,322,500
Organizations funded a year
147 to 197
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
17
Total assets, FY2024
$605M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Wyncote Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving136$19M14%
FY2023147$21M14%
FY2022160$26M22%
FY2021165$24M21%
FY2020197$28Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$58MEnvironment$25MPhilanthropy$17MEducation$8.8MHousing & Shelter$8.7MFood & Nutrition$4.4MInternational$2.3MCivil Rights$1.8MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 272 grantees
All grantees of Wyncote Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Natural Lands Trust Inc$11,857,093530%
The People's Light & Theatre Company$5,680,000548%
Low Income Housing Institute$4,445,00043%
The Santa Fe Opera$4,400,00053%
Philadelphia Orchestra Association$4,000,00042%
Plymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries$3,800,00033%
The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia$2,260,000534%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$1,900,00040%
Fringearts$1,860,000528%
Philadelphia Film Society$1,813,000524%
Historic Organ Restoration Committee Inc$1,690,000565%
The Wilma Theater$1,666,500531%
Food Lifeline$1,600,00050%
Johns Hopkins University$1,385,00050%
The Friends of the Wanamaker Organ$1,251,228453%
Northwest Harvest Emm$1,250,00051%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$1,250,00040%
Climate Solutions$1,250,00056%
Pike Place Market Foundation$1,200,000510%
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf$1,130,00053%
Equal Measure$1,108,824310%
American Documentary Inc$1,106,59756%
American University$1,077,50040%
Solid Ground Washington$1,060,00031%
The Pennsylvania Ballet Association$1,009,89152%
The Florida State University Foundation Inc$960,20621%
Pcc Farmland Trust$950,000517%
Balletx$945,000510%
Town Hall Association$925,00046%
The Seattle Aquarium Society$916,66641%
American Organ Academy$879,500482%
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc$800,00015%
Washington Trails Association$787,50053%
Friends of Kexp$775,00052%
Independent Television Services Inc$748,00051%
Opera Philadelphia$738,38953%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio$733,33341%
Greater Philadelphia Film Office$690,000520%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund$690,00046%
Scribe Video Center Inc$690,000514%
Whyy Inc$653,25041%
Association of Independents in Radio Inc$600,000232%
Methow Conservancy$600,000110%
Ballard Food Bank$600,00024%
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$600,00031%
Firelight Media Inc$600,00059%
Mass Design Group Ltd$570,00051%
Partners for Sacred Places Inc$540,000312%
Painted Bride Art Center Inc$530,000516%
WGBH Educational Foundation$525,00040%
Rails to Trails Conservancy$500,00032%
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey$500,00011%
Lantern Theater Company$500,00059%
Mid Atlantic Air Museum$467,000444%
Bearded Ladies Cabaret$450,000333%
Saint Peters Church$450,0003n/a
Drexel University$450,00030%
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation$437,562313%
Liberty Hill Center for Agricultural Education$425,000287%
Farestart$425,00051%
The Pathway School$425,00051%
The Center for Public Integrity$400,00042%
The Trust for Public Land$400,00020%
Friends of Seattle Waterfront$400,00021%
Pennon Organization$395,00051%
Media Development Investment Fund Inc$385,00031%
Media Impact Funders Inc$380,000513%
Organ Historical Society$371,944527%
Playpenn Inc$340,000441%
Theatre Exile Company$335,000417%
Kimmel Center Inc$325,00031%
Smithsonian Institution$320,00020%
Open Connections Inc$314,692119%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$300,00010%
Project Mercy Inc$295,00044%
Option Institute and Fellowship Autism Treatment Center of America$275,00027%
1812 Productions Inc$275,00056%
Hedgerow Theatre Inc$273,600542%
Lifelong Health for All$265,00050%
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance$263,00029%
The Public Interest Law Center$255,00053%
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science$250,000327%
The Barnes Foundation$250,00011%
Arden Theatre Company$250,00033%
Bright Invention Inc$245,000448%
Oberlin College$235,00030%
Bristol Riverside Theatre Co Inc$230,00053%
Public Media Women in Leadership Inc$225,000477%
Azuka Theatre Collective$220,000349%
York County History Center$210,00015%
Pennsylvania Voice$205,00022%
Pig Iron Theatre Company Inc$205,00042%
Spark Northwest$200,00049%
Science History Institute$200,00012%
The Pathway Corporation$200,00025%
LiveConnectionsorg$200,000211%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$200,00032%
Museum of New Mexico Foundation$180,77441%
Theatre Horizon Inc$180,00045%
Quintessence Theatre Group Inc$180,00053%
Pacific Northwest Trail Association$180,00036%
Ayiti Demen$180,000314%
Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project$175,00054%
Seattle Parks Foundation$175,00051%
Philadelphia Theatre Company$175,00032%
Spotlight Pa$170,00021%
Delaware Theatre Company$170,00043%
Weavers Way Community Programs$170,000424%
The Washington DC International Film Festival Inc$169,192512%
International Documentary Foundation Inc$160,00031%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$155,00040%
Interact Inc$152,00037%
Plays and Players$150,000334%
Curtis Institute of Music$150,00020%
Catholic Relief Services$150,0003n/a
Resolve Philadelphia Inc$150,00053%
Jazz Philadelphia$150,0002n/a
Developing Radio Partners Inc$150,000334%
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health$150,0003n/a
Theatre Philadelphia$147,500321%
Women Make Movies Inc$140,00031%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$135,00010%
The Meridian School$125,00011%
Futurewise$125,00037%
The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated$120,00013%
Teen Feed$120,00036%
The Working Group$120,000220%
Nichole Canuso Dance Company$120,000527%
Foundation for the Reading Public Museum$115,00022%
New Paradise Laboratories Theatre Inc$115,000457%
Center City District Foundation$112,23813%
Ego Po Inc$110,000413%
Seashare$105,00051%
Public Media Company$100,00032%
Bryn Athyn Church of the New Jerusalem$100,0001n/a
The Groundtruth Project Inc$100,00021%
William Way Lgbt Community Center$100,00022%
American Solar Energy Society Inc$100,000310%
Museum of Flight Foundation$100,00011%
Natural Creativity$100,000115%
Keep Our Republic Charitable Fund$100,000112%
National Federation of Community Broadcasters Inc$100,00037%
Burke Museum Association$100,00016%
The Friends of the Wissahickon Inc$100,00022%
Tilth Alliance$100,00013%
Association for the Colonial Theatre$100,00024%
Virginia Mason Health System$100,00020%
Headlong Dance Theater Inc$100,000220%
The University of the Arts$100,00010%
Polyphonia Society$100,000242%
The Articulate Foundation$100,00017%
Doc Society Inc$100,00013%
Way Back Inn Foundation$100,000220%
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust$100,00014%
The Devereux Foundation$90,00010%
Macguffin Theatre and Film Company$90,00057%
Samuel S Fleisher Art Memorial Inc$90,0001n/a
Chicken & Egg Films Inc$90,00031%
Cafa-Third Horizon Inc$82,500216%
Magnolia Impact Solutions$80,000251%
Ithaca College$80,00040%
Inis Nua Theatre Company$80,000316%
Louisville Memorial Auditorium Foundation Inc$75,0001n/a
Institute Justice and Democracy in Haiti Inc$75,00033%
Montgomery Theater Inc$75,00057%
Public Media Group of Southern California$75,00010%
WorkingFilms Inc$75,00016%
Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System$75,00030%
Act II Playhouse Ltd$75,00052%
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress$75,00010%
Amistad Law Project$75,00034%
Blackstar Projects Inc$75,00013%
The Futuro Media Group$70,00021%
Fonkoze USA Inc$70,00031%
Military Veterans in Journalism Inc$65,20027%
Book Fairies Inc$65,00028%
Black Public Media Inc$65,00013%
The Village of Arts and Humanities$61,21712%
Newark Public Radio Inc$60,00021%
The North Carolina Public Television Foundation Inc$60,00022%
The Fabric Workshop and Museum$60,00012%
New York Theatre Workshop Inc$57,50050%
Philadelphia Artists Collective Incorporated$57,000420%
National Educational Telecommunications$55,80011%
Simpatico Theatre$55,0002n/a
Tiny Dynamite Inc$55,000420%
Catapult Film Fund$50,00013%
National Parks Conservation Association$50,00020%
Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc$50,00013%
The German Society of Pennsylvania$50,0001n/a
First Look Institute Inc$50,00010%
The Birth Center$50,00011%
Lighthawk$50,00022%
Wild Salmon Center$50,00020%
Center for Asian American Media$50,00012%
Woodmere Art Museum$50,00011%
Newport Festivals Foundation Inc$50,00040%
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc$50,00013%
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia$46,00051%
Bike Works Seattle$45,00041%
11th Hour Theatre Company$44,500213%
Team Sunshine Performance Corp$43,000315%
Publicsource$40,00041%
Philadelphia Clef Club for Jazz & Performing Arts Inc$40,00041%
Civic News Company$40,00040%
The Web Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy Inc$40,000110%
Delaware Public Media Corporation$40,00041%
League of Women Voters of Washington Education Fund$40,000210%
Friends Central School Corporation$40,0002n/a
Philadelphia Young Playwrights$40,00042%
Enchantment Theatre Company$37,500310%
The Horse Shelter$35,00014%
Historic Organ Trust$35,0002100%
Just Act Inc$35,000310%
No More Secrets-Mind Body Spirit$32,5003n/a
Patient Airlift Services Inc$30,00012%
Shakespeare in Clark Park$30,000317%
International Assn of Performing Arts for Young People Inc$30,00028%
Big Dog Rescue Project Inc$30,00016%
Washington Memorial Chapel$30,0003n/a
Pickleberry Pie Inc$28,000310%
Wallingford Community Senior Center$25,00051%
Extraspecialteas Inc$25,00013%
Cypress House at St Lukes$25,000122%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc$25,00010%
Local Journalism Initiative Inc$25,00012%
The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc$25,00011%
Philadelphia Outward Bound Center$25,00011%
City of Elderly Love$22,50034%
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press$20,00010%
The Food Depot$20,00010%
Manasota Asalh Inc$20,00019%
Children First PA$20,00030%
Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre$20,000114%
Auburn Theological Seminary$20,00011%
The 19th News$20,00010%
American Journalism Project Inc$20,00010%
Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium$20,000218%
Partners for Justice Inc$20,00010%
Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television Association$20,00020%
Project Home$20,00020%
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance$20,00020%
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia$17,00010%
Philadelphia Public Access Corporation$15,00011%
Leah Stein Dance Company$15,000222%
Dave Purchase Project$15,00030%
Al Dia Foundation$15,0001n/a
The Attic Youth Center$15,00011%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$15,00010%
Vermont Land Trust Inc$15,00030%
Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance$15,00010%
Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia$12,00010%
Artreach Inc$12,00021%
The Funders Network Inc$11,87210%
Junk$10,00015%
Foundations Inc$10,00010%
Philabundance$10,00010%
Wnet$10,00010%
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art$10,00010%
First Person Arts Inc$10,00011%
Greensgrow Inc$10,00012%
PHILLY STARTUP LEADERS INC co mindspace$10,00012%
West Philadelphia Alliance for Children$10,00014%
Council for Relationships Inc$10,00010%
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation$10,00010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$8,00020%
Independent Arts & Media$7,50010%
Riverbend Environmental Education Center$7,50020%
Cathedral Church of St John the Divine$3,0001n/a
Santa Fe Botanical Garden$2,50010%
Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival$2,50013%
Berwyn Fire Company$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Wyncote Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 26 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $11,857,093 over 5y, 30% of budgetThe People's Light & Theatre Company: $5,680,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetLow Income Housing Institute: $4,445,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe Santa Fe Opera: $4,400,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Orchestra Association: $4,000,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPlymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries: $3,800,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetThe Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia: $2,260,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $1,900,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFringearts: $1,860,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetPhiladelphia Film Society: $1,813,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetHistoric Organ Restoration Committee Inc: $1,690,000 over 5y, 65% of budgetThe Wilma Theater: $1,666,500 over 5y, 31% of budgetFood Lifeline: $1,600,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $1,385,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friends of the Wanamaker Organ: $1,251,228 over 4y, 53% of budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $1,250,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetClimate Solutions: $1,250,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetPike Place Market Foundation: $1,200,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetThe Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf: $1,130,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetEqual Measure: $1,108,824 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetAmerican Documentary Inc: $1,106,597 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetAmerican University: $1,077,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $1,060,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Pennsylvania Ballet Association: $1,009,891 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $960,206 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPcc Farmland Trust: $950,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetBalletx: $945,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTown Hall Association: $925,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetThe Seattle Aquarium Society: $916,666 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Organ Academy: $879,500 over 4y, 82% of budgetThe Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc: $800,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetWashington Trails Association: $787,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetFriends of Kexp: $775,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetIndependent Television Services Inc: $748,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOpera Philadelphia: $738,389 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetKuow Puget Sound Public Radio: $733,333 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Film Office: $690,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetWashington Conservation Action Education Fund: $690,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetScribe Video Center Inc: $690,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetWhyy Inc: $653,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAssociation of Independents in Radio Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetMethow Conservancy: $600,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBallard Food Bank: $600,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFirelight Media Inc: $600,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetMass Design Group Ltd: $570,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPartners for Sacred Places Inc: $540,000 over 3y, 12% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The William Penn FoundationPA123.5× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Lida Foundation · The University of the Arts · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Charlotte Cushman Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Wyncote Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wyncote Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wyncote Foundation

How much does Wyncote Foundation give?
Wyncote Foundation reported 139 grants totaling $26,273,216 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 147 and 197 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Wyncote Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Environment (18%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are Wyncote Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Natural Lands Trust Inc ($12M), The People's Light & Theatre Company ($5.7M), Low Income Housing Institute ($4.4M).
Does Wyncote Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wyncote Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wyncote Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc, The Philadelphia Foundation.
Where is Wyncote Foundation based?
Wyncote Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 315 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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