The Community's Foundation
Ridley Park, PA · EIN 23-2354770. Reported 69 grants totalling $819,977 to 43 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Community's Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 43% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,250. Half of what it reported fell between $6,010 and $12,167; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $43,100. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
5 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $27,369 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagles Autism Challenge Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $61,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| CASA Youth Advocates Inc | Media, PA | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Support Line of Delaware County Inc | Media, PA | $53,588 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County Inc | Media, PA | $48,850 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chester Upland Youth Soccer | Media, PA | $44,565 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| County of Delaware Workforce Development | Upper Darby, PA | $40,222 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Wesley House Community Corporation Inc | Uppr Chichstr, PA | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Senior Community Services Inc | Folsom, PA | $30,833 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Making a Change Group | Chester, PA | $30,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Delaware County Community College Educational Foundation | Media, PA | $29,100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chester Eastside Inc | Upland, PA | $28,884 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Delaware County Literacy Council | Chester, PA | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Family and Community Service of Delaware County | Springfield, PA | $27,712 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Action Agency of Delaware County Inc | Uppr Chichstr, PA | $25,850 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Delaware County Victim Assistance Center | Media, PA | $25,700 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Caring for Friends | Philadelphia, PA | $15,583 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| John J Tyler Arboretum | Media, PA | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Institute for Leadership Education Advancement & Development Inc | Chester Hts, PA | $15,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maternity Care Coalition | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mitzvah Circle Foundation | Lansdale, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Andrew L Hicks JR Foundation | Downingtown, PA | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Library Foundation of Delaware County Pennsylvania | Media, PA | $14,010 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| African Family Health Organization Afaho | Philadelphia, PA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pennsylvania Institue of Technology | Media, PA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valley Youth House Committee | Bethlehem, PA | $9,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Womens Resource Center | Wayne, PA | $9,625 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vest-a-Cop Foundation | Ridley Park, PA | $9,065 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Operation Warm Inc | Glen Mills, PA | $8,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Murphys Giving Market | Upper Darby, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Door Abuse Awareness Prevention | Philadelphia, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blessed Katharine Drexel Church | Chester, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Urban Affairs Coalition | Philadelphia, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Community Center Established By the Surgent Family for Society | Devon, PA | $6,667 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Musicopia Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centro De Apoyo Comunitario | Upper Darby, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Career Wardrobe | Philadelphia, PA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trinity Transitional House | Aston, PA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saint Josephs Family Hope Center | Havertown, PA | $5,555 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teachers Teammates | Havertown, PA | $5,369 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chester Education Foundation | Chester, PA | $5,333 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Greenhouse Project | Chester, PA | $5,166 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ridley School District | Folsom, PA | $5,150 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
14 of 43 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Dccc Educational Foundation
career development program - Tyler Arboretum
disabled adult women internship - Mitzvah Circle Foundation
critical needs for healthy families - Delaware County Women Against Rape
Counseling for incarcerated women - Chester Upland Youth Soccer
After-school & weekend programs - Vest-a-Cop Foundation
Venture capital, op support
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 15 | $195,756 | $9,625 |
| 2021 | 10 | $119,518 | $8,469 |
| 2022 | 13 | $162,288 | $7,850 |
| 2023 | 14 | $178,132 | $9,100 |
| 2024 | 17 | $164,283 | $7,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
5 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 14 grants totalling $223,100 to The Community's Foundation. That is 45% of the 11 funders we can see giving to it. Those 5 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a community foundation.
4 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Wilbur C and Betty Lea | Pennsylvania | $158,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Justamere Foundation | Delaware | $57,300 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Nerney Family Foundation | Pennsylvania | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Gbh Foundation Trust | New York | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $8,250 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Community's Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 6 Ehinckley Avenue, Ridley Park, PA, 19078.
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