How much does Carita Foundation-Ima give?

Carita Foundation-Ima reported 58 grants totaling $350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 66 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Carita Foundation-Ima fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Arts & Culture (8%).

Who are Carita Foundation-Ima's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Food & Friends Inc ($75k), Shipley School ($70k), The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ($50k).

Does Carita Foundation-Ima fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Carita Foundation-Ima accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Carita Foundation-Ima?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Connelly Foundation.

Where is Carita Foundation-Ima based?

Carita Foundation-Ima is based in PA.

Carita Foundation-Ima

Carita Foundation-Ima at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k43 grants · $160k
$10k–50k15 grants · $190k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES	$20,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND	$20,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK	$15,000
FOOD & FRIENDS	$15,000
CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND	$15,000
SHIPLEY	$15,000
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS	$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK	$10,000
ALITE RESCUE FUND	$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$10,000
PHILABUNDANCE	$10,000
CEASEFIREPA	$10,000
HELPING HARVEST FOOD BANK	$10,000
WHYY	$10,000
WOLFPAC	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 62 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Total granted

$1.1M

$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +32%
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

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

87/88

Grantees still filing

49/88

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$778,575Education$212,000Human Services$127,500Food & Nutrition$114,000Health$103,000Environment$90,000Science & Tech$65,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carita Foundation-Ima funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carita Foundation-Ima. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home