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Delaware County Medical Society Public Health Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$39kFood & Nutrition$28kHealth$23kReligion$14kPhilanthropy$9kCommunity Improvement$6kCrime & Legal$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$253k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY$3,000
RIDLEY UMC FOOD PANTRY$2,000
MEDIA FOOD BANK$2,000
UPPER DARBY FOOD BANK$2,000
BERNADINE CENTER$2,000
DOMESTIC ABUSE PROJECT OF DELAWARE$1,500
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF DELCO$1,250
DMAX FOUNDATION$1,000
CHESPENN$1,000
FAITH TABERNACLE CHURCH$1,000
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
MOTHER'S HOME$1,000
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,000
UNION MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SURREY SERVICES: $950 → 6%CHILDREN FIRST: $1k → 22%SURREY SERVICES: $950 → 6%GEMME SERVICES: $500 → 7%CHILDREN FIRST: $500 → 22%SURREY SERVICES: $950 → 6%CHILDREN FIRST: $500 → 22%SURREY SERVICES: $950 → 6%GEMME SERVICES: $500 → 7%SURREY SERVICES: $950 → 6%MOTHER'S HOME: $1k → 10%MOTHER'S HOME: $750 → 10%MOTHER'S HOME: $750 → 10%MOTHER'S HOME: $750 → 10%MOTHER'S HOME: $750 → 10%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 10%PATHWAYS PA: $725 → 10%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $725 → 10%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $725 → 10%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $725 → 10%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $725 → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT LINE: $640 → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT LINE: $640 → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT LINE: $500 → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT LINE: $500 → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT LINE: $500 → 10%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$119k · 33 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
5

Total granted

$119k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-10%

Still filing today

33%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthOther
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

  • SS
    SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • MH
    MOTHERS' HOME
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +0%
  • CH
    CHESPENN HEALTH SERVICES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • DC
    DELAWARE COUNTY (EMERGENCY FUND)
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -10%
  • PP
    PATHWAYS PA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $725 · revenue -15%
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
Accessmatters

Accessmatters' mission is to protect, expand, and enhance access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. accessmatters fulfills its mission by providing services and information directly to people, by…

Health
2
Community Services for Children Inc

Csc prepares young children and their families to succeed in learning and life through innovative, comprehensive, leading edge services.

Education
3
Maternal & Family Health Services Inc

As a private non-profit health and human services organization, maternal and family health services (mfhs) works to meet the health and nutrition needs of northeastern pennsylvania's women, children, and families with essential…

Health
4
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
5
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
6
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers

Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…

Health
7
Family and Children's Services of Centra

To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.

Human Services
8
Public Health Management Corporation

Public health management corporation (phmc) is a nonprofit public health institute that creates and sustains healthier communities. phmc uses best practices to improve community health through direct service, partnership, innovation,…

Health
9
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

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

Human Services
10
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
11
Maryland Patient Safety Center Inc

To develop and implement strategies to improve the safety of patient care in maryland. mpsc unites stakeholders to champion patient safety, eliminate preventable harm, and accelerate improvements in safety quality across healthcare.

Health
12
Family Health Initiatives Inc

Our mission is to help hospitals, nonprofits and government improve the health and well being of communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council for Relationships Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unity Center Inc co RagoGriesser & Co. 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

16 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. 16 of the 40 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPPER DARBY FOOD BANK: $9,000 · OtherUPPER DARBY FOOD BANKDELAWARE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOU: $9,000 · OtherDELAWARE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOURIDLEY UMC FOOD PANTRY: $8,000 · OtherRIDLEY UMC FOOD PANTRYBERNADINE CENTER: $8,000 · OtherBERNADINE CENTERMEDIA FOOD BANK: $8,000 · OtherMEDIA FOOD BANKCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF DELCO: $6,250 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF DELCODOMESTIC ABUSE PROJECT OF DELAWARE: $5,300 · OtherDELAWARE COUNTY (EMERGENCY FUND): $5,000 · OtherWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $3,625 · Other+19 more: $37,280 · Other+19 moreSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $4,750 · Human ServicesSURREY SERVICES…MOTHERS' HOME: $4,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS' HOMESENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3,900 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNIT…FAMILY SUPPORT LINE OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $2,780 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPORT …Children First PA: $2,000 · Human ServicesChildren First …Gemma Services: $1,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS PA INC: $725 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $9,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR…CHESPENN HEALTH SERVICES INC: $4,000 · HealthCHESPENN HEALT…DMAX FOUNDATION: $3,140 · HealthDMAX FOUNDATIO…+2 more: $1,000 · Health+2 more
Other$99,455Human Services$19,155Health$17,140

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS' HOME: $4,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHESPENN HEALTH SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $3,625 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDMAX FOUNDATION: $3,140 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT LINE OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $2,780 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAIN LINE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $2,175 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChildren First PA: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGemma Services: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnity Center Inc co RagoGriesser & Co: $1,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetPATHWAYS PA INC: $725 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvery Child Counts Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS' HOME ↗
  • Who funds CHESPENN HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds DMAX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT LINE OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN LINE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Children First PA ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Gemma Services ↗
  • Who funds Unity Center Inc co RagoGriesser & Co ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS PA INC ↗
  • Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Every Child Counts Inc ↗

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 FoundationPA25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw · The Gordon Charter Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Foundation for Delaware County · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Phillies Charities Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Community's Foundation · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2

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 Delaware County Medical Society Public Health Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delaware County Medical Society Public Health Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Delaware County Medical Society Public Health Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Delaware County Medical Society Public Health Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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