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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.
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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $922k
- $50k–250k70 grants · $7.3M
- $250k+22 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $6,322,500 |
| PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY | $1,145,000 |
| SANTA FE OPERA | $1,100,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $1,000,000 |
| PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $800,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC | $800,000 |
| NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC | $620,000 |
| FRINGEARTS | $550,000 |
| FOOD LIFELINE | $500,000 |
| WASHINGTON FARMLAND TRUST | $400,000 |
| HISTORIC ORGAN RESTORATION COMMITTEE | $400,000 |
| WILMA THEATER INC | $390,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $375,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KEXP | $375,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $583k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
203 repeat relationships — 117 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 19 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- NLNatural Lands Trust Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +65% · 30% of their budget
- LILOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE4× · 2020–2023 · $4.4M · revenue +241%
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA5× · 2020–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +43%
Funded once
- MCMETHOW CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue -70%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEYone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -45%
- OCOPEN CONNECTIONS INCone grant, 2020 · $315k · revenue -44%
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.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
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.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region
The corporation advances excellence in the arts, including studio, media, and creative writing. to achieve its mission, the corporation provides equipment and facilities for individual artists, conducts educational programs, and stimulates…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Historic Organ Trust. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
274 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. 274 of the 315 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 THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds THE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRINGEARTS ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ORGAN RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILMA THEATER ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE WANAMAKER ORGAN ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ↗
- Who funds EQUAL MEASURE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PCC FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BALLETX ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ORGAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KEXP ↗
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 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
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 Wyncote 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.
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Delaware Public Media Corporation — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% 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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