The Philadelphia Foundation
One of the country's earliest community foundations, a civic catalyst pooling local giving to strengthen Greater Philadelphia.
Peer societies
Five societies The Philadelphia Foundation is read alongside.
HFPG
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
The community foundation for Greater Hartford, marking a century of partnering with donors and nonprofits…
7 companies named
CFGA
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
A metropolitan community foundation connecting donors, nonprofits, and civic leaders across a 23 county…
SPMF
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
Minnesota's largest community foundation, pooling thousands of separate acts of generosity into one shared…
GKCCF
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
A philanthropic platform that has grown into a national engine for donor advised giving, holding thousands of…
MF
Minneapolis Foundation
A community foundation that pools the generosity of many donors into grantmaking, research, and advocacy for…
3 companies named
Who backs PF
Every company The Philadelphia Foundation names publicly as a supporter, exactly as published. Companies also named by other associations on Sociogene come first.
Sources: 1 published list, read September 2026
Our Centennial Sponsors. Read September 28, 2026. Centennial campaign sponsors (undated page, centennial year 2018); logo wall read from image file names; universities and nonprofits omitted.
Who backs The Philadelphia Foundation's peers, but not The Philadelphia Foundation
Companies named publicly by at least one of The Philadelphia Foundation's five peer societies, and not found in The Philadelphia Foundation's reviewed public records.
| Company | HFPG | MF | Peers |
|---|---|---|---|
| corporate-giving-logo-1 | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| corporate-giving-logo-4 | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| corporate-giving-logo-5 | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| CVS Aetna | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| fairview capital | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Shipman | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| The Hartford | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Travelers | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| turn two | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Whittlesey | Named | 1 of 2 |
The outside view
One of the country's earliest community foundations, a civic catalyst pooling local giving to strengthen Greater Philadelphia.
- Consensus
- Build
- Outward
- Operational
Their shape
The Village
Where everyone is known by name.
The Village is built on belonging, where everyone knows everyone and relationships are the point. Its gift is loyalty and warmth, its challenge is scaling beyond the intimacy that makes it work.
Also reads toward The Legacy and The Parliament.
Strengths
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