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Caroline J S Sanders Td at a glance

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Caroline J S Sanders Td

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.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$75kHealth$57kEducation$42kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$18kCrime & Legal$17kFood & Nutrition$15kEmployment$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$708k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA$5,000
CITY YEAR INC$5,000
MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL$5,000
HUMANGOOD PENNSYLVANIA$5,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC$2,500
NEED IN DEED$2,500
SENIORLAW CENTER$2,500
ACHIEVEABILITY$2,500
MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT$1,040
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $3k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY: $2k → 12%HUMANGOOD PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE FOR CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $3k → 11%ARC ALLIANCE GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES: $5k → 7%EQUI-LIBRIUM INC: $3k → 11%ARC ALLIANCE GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES: $5k → 7%MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $3k → 11%MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $2k → 11%MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $2k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $4k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $8k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134k · 13 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
32

Total granted

$134k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TM
    The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents
    4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE
    5× · 2018–2023 · $15k · revenue +65%
  • MC
    MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +222%

Funded once

  • RH
    Rahabs Hope
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • TA
    THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +69%
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.

1
United Cerebral Palsy of Central Pennsylvania

Ucp of central pennsylvania empowers people of diverse abilities to live meaningful life through innovative support and services.

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2
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
3
Merakey Idd Philadelphia

The organization was formed to serve all functioning levels of individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities who reside primarily in the philadelphia metropolitan area. services provided include residential, outpatient and adult…

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4
SpArc Services

To provide day programming services that will assist people to learn skills in order to live independently.

Employment
5
Step By Step Inc

The provision of housing, rehabilitation, and support services to individuals with emotional and developmental disabilities along with support and treatment services for individuals with drug and alcohol addictions.

Human Services
6
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
7
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
8
Potential Inc

Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.

Human Services
9
Key Human Services Inc

Provides supports to people with intellectual/developmental disability across the lifespan that encourages growth and meaningful life choices while assisting persons in finding home, health, friends, work, and presence in their…

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10
Programs Employing People

Our mission is to develop, coordinate and improve the services and supports that are offered in the disability system and to ensure that each person has access to the care they need to live a productive and meaningful life.

Employment
11
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
12
Melmark Inc

Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Royer-Greaves School for Blind; the most unlike its peers is Harmony Theater. 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

46 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. 46 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND: $9,000 · OtherROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLINDBAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $8,000 · OtherBAKER INDUSTRIES INCTHE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $8,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTYTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF: $7,500 · OtherTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OFTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC: $5,500 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INCFEDERATION HOUSING INC: $5,000 · OtherYMCA: $5,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC: $5,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE FOR CHESTER COUNTY: $5,000 · OtherOrdinarie Heroes: $7,000 · OtherOrdinarie Heroes+13 more: $35,000 · Other+13 moreMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Human ServicesMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATIONTHE ARC ALLIANCE GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC ALLIANCE GUARDIAN…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $7,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRE…MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $7,040 · Human ServicesMOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPOR…THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $6,500 · Human ServicesTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR…HUMANGOOD PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 · Human ServicesHUMANGOOD PENNSYLVANIAWings for Success Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesWings for Success IncEQUI-LIBRIUM INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $4,000 · Human Services+2 moreThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents: $25,000 · HealthThe Magee Memorial H…THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC: $12,500 · HealthTHE BARN AT SPRING B…GAUDENZIA INC: $3,000 · HealthGAUDENZIA INCEASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS EASTERN…KELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $3,000 · HealthKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEM…LANCASTER COUNTY THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC D/B/A GREYSTONE MANOR THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $2,868 · HealthLANCASTER COUNTY THE…A STEP UP ACADEMY INC: $7,589 · EducationA STEP UP …IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationIMMACULATA…COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY …VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $3,000 · EducationVALLEY FOR…THE TIMOTHY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $3,000 · EducationTHE TIMOTH…MIGHTY WRITERS: $2,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRI…PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $14,500 · Crime & LegalSENIORLAW CENTER: $2,500 · Crime & LegalRahabs Hope: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterACHIEVEABILITY: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $8,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$100,000Human Services$62,040Health$49,368Education$25,589Crime & Legal$17,000Housing & Shelter$12,500Food & Nutrition$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC ALLIANCE GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRahabs Hope: $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $8,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBAKER INDUSTRIES INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA STEP UP ACADEMY INC: $7,589 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $7,040 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetOrdinarie Heroes: $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWings for Success Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYERTOWN AREA MULTI-SERVICE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIMOTHY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUI-LIBRIUM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC D/B/A GREYSTONE MANOR THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $2,868 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPARK PROGRAM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEABILITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEED IN DEED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1812 PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

Sanders Caroline J S …Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Gordon Charter Fo…Phillies Charities IncHenrietta Tower Wurts…United Way of Greater…W W Smith Charitable …Howell Lockhart Seipl…Skilling Joseph Kenna…Dl Saunders Lawrence …
Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2MO40.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2 · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Howell Lockhart Seiple No 1 Idt Res · Skilling Joseph Kennard Td · Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders 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 Caroline J S Sanders Td funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caroline J S Sanders Td. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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