FundersPennsylvania

Health and Welfare Foundation of

West Grove, PA · EIN 23-3090992. Reported 78 grants totalling $526,405 to 56 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$526,405granted, 2020-2023
56organizations funded
26%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,869,168assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Health and Welfare Foundation of did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $8,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $24,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
37 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
26 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$54,900442023
Penn State UniversityUniversity Park, PA$33,900222021
Temple UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$27,000442023
West Chester UniversityWest Chester, PA$26,600332022
Maternal & Child Health ConsortiumWest Chester, PA$22,700112020
Southern Chester County EmsWest Grove, PA$18,000112023
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$15,000112023
Mighty WritersPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112022
YoungmomsKennett Square, PA$15,000112022
Shenandoah UniversityWinchester, VA$13,200222023
Family Service of Chester CountyWest Chester, PA$13,100112021
New London Counseling CenterLincoln University, PA$13,100112021
Elizabethtown CollegeElizabethtown, PA$13,000332023
Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$11,700222022
Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL$11,605112021
University of North Carolina - Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC$11,000112023
University of South CarolinaColumbia, SC$10,600332023
Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PA$9,700222022
Duquesne UniversityPittsburgh, PA$9,700222022
Immaculata UniversityImmaculata, PA$9,600222022
Messiah UniversityMechanicsburg, PA$9,000112021
Penn Dental Medicine University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$9,000112021
Cooper Medical School at Rowan UniversityCamden, NJ$8,000112022
Princeton UniversityPrinceton, NJ$8,000112022
University of DelawareNewark, DE$8,000112022
University of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN$7,500112023
University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$7,500112023
Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg, PA$7,000112022
Pennsylvania College of Health and SciencesLancaster, PA$7,000332022
University of VermontBurlington, VT$7,000112022
Liberty UniversityLynchburg, VA$6,700222023
Lancaster County Career & Technology CenterWillow Street, PA$6,000222022
University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$5,700112020
Delaware County Community CollegeMedia, PA$5,000112021
Mount St Mary's UniversityEmmitsburg, MD$5,000112021
Providence CollegeProvidence, RI$4,700112020
University of DelawareNorman, OK$4,700112020
Delaware Technical Community CollegeWilmington, DE$4,000112022
Indiana University of PennsylvaniaIndiana, PA$4,000112022
Spelman CollegeAtlanta, GA$4,000112022
West Virgina UniversityMorgantown, WV$4,000112022
Delaware State UniversityDover, DE$3,600112020
University of AlabamaTuscaloosa, AL$3,600112020
Bloomsburg UniversityBloomsburg, PA$3,000112022
Chester County Intermediate UnitDowningtown, PA$3,000112023
Commonwealth University of PennsylvaniaBloomsburg, PA$3,000112023
Franciscan UniversitySteubenville, OH$3,000112021
George Washington UniversityWashington, DC$3,000112023
Murray State UniversityMurray, KY$3,000112023
Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH$3,000112021
Commonwealth University of BloomsburgBloomsburg, PA$2,000112023
James Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, VA$2,000112023
La Comunidad HispanaKennett Square, PA$2,000112020
Millersville UniversityMillersvillepa, PA$2,000112023
St Joseph's UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$2,000112023
University of Massachusetts LowellLowell, MA$2,000112023

14 of 56 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 26%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
28 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202019$125,600$4,700
202116$126,805$5,500
202223$142,000$7,000
202320$132,000$3,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 69% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$364K
Virginia
$22K
Maryland
$20K
New Jersey
$16K
Delaware
$16K
Illinois
$12K
North Carolina
$11K
South Carolina
$11K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund22 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc22 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program20 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc18 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America16 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc15 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Related guides

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Health and Welfare Foundation of's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 374, West Grove, PA, 19390. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 23-3090992 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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