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Carita Foundation-Ima

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$350k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$324kFood & Nutrition$240kArts & Culture$113kHuman Services$108kAnimals$91kEnvironment$87kHealth$78kCivil Rights$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $160k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $190k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$20,000
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES$20,000
CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$15,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$15,000
FOOD & FRIENDS$15,000
SHIPLEY$15,000
WHYY$10,000
PHILABUNDANCE$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
HELPING HARVEST FOOD BANK$10,000
CEASEFIREPA$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$10,000
WOLFPAC$10,000
ALITE RESCUE FUND$10,000
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRINITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%NURTURING MINDS: $1k → 9%COMFORT CASES: $2k → 8%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%NURTURING MINDS: $1k → 9%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $7k → 8%CARIDAD CENTER: $5k → 11%MAINE NEEDS: $5k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 8%PROJECT HOME: $10k → 22%MAINE NEEDS: $3k → 7%AIO FOOD AND ENERGY ASSISTANCE: $3k → 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 8%MAINE NEEDS: $1k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 8%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%AYUDA: $3k → 14%PROJECT HOME: $4k → 22%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%AYUDA: $3k → 14%GIRLS WHO CODE: $2k → 17%MOTHER'S HOME: $5k → 10%OPERATION WARM: $1k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 62 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
53

Total granted

$1.1M
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+14%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • FF
    FOOD & FRIENDS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +22%
  • SS
    SHIPLEY SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +14%
  • TA
    THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TF
    TRINITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +53% · 27% of their budget
  • TN
    TRINITY NURSEY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
2
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment
6
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Health Partnership. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…Community College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Women & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyPublic Library OperationsImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Food PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr17%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr17%31%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/90
the rest of the field
9%
7,128/78,072

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.

04the grantee network

88 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 141 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
50/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ECHOES — $47,500 · OtherECHOESALITE RESCUE FUND — $40,000 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOL OF BERWYN — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherST JAMES SCHOOL — $27,000 · OtherAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY — $30,000 · Other+83 more — $559,075 · Other+83 moreSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $70,000 · EducationSHIPLEY SCHOOLTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $38,000 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL …DONORSCHOOSEORG — $25,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVER…BRYN MAWR COLLEGE — $18,000 · EducationBRYN MAWR COLLEG…LAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL — $10,000 · Education+7 more — $21,000 · Education+7 morePROJECT HOME — $23,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT H…TRINITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY F…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $19,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES T…DC ABORTION FUND — $15,500 · Human ServicesDC ABORTI…Caridad Center Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesCaridad C…Maine Needs Inc — $9,000 · Human ServicesMaine Nee…AYUDA INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS' HOME — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $5,000 · Human Services+5 more — $10,000 · Human Services+5 moreCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $35,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank — $23,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance — $17,000 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $12,000 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCome Spring Food Pantry — $6,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $6,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $75,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $20,000 · HealthPHILADELPHIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $3,000 · HealthTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $20,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $12,000 · EnvironmentNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED — $11,000 · EnvironmentMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN — $5,000 · EnvironmentNatural Lands Trust Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentThe Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA — $50,000 · Science & TechCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND — $15,000 · Science & Tech
Other$778,575Education$212,000Human Services$127,500Food & Nutrition$114,000Health$103,000Environment$90,000Science & Tech$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWHYY INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDC ABORTION FUND — $15,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCaridad Center Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStarfinder Foundation — $11,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Needs Inc — $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCome Spring Food Pantry — $6,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAYUDA INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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 FOOD & FRIENDS INC
  • Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
  • Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG
  • Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC
  • Who funds WHYY INC
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC
  • Who funds TRINITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC
  • Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
  • Who funds Philabundance
  • Who funds DC ABORTION FUND
  • Who funds Caridad Center Inc
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
  • Who funds ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA31.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · The Cigna Group 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 Carita Foundation-Ima 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc2% of income from government
  • Caridad Center Inc0% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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