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Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation at a glance

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Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$243kFood & Nutrition$94kHuman Services$87kYouth Development$75kArts & Culture$67kHealth$61kEnvironment$54kRecreation & Sports$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT$5,000
THE WARDROBE$5,000
PROJECT BASED LEARNING INC$5,000
NORRISTOWN PAGE TURNERS$5,000
MINORITY CENTER FOR PARTICIPATION$5,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA$5,000
BELIEVE IN STUDENTS$5,000
MINDING YOUR MIND$5,000
CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$5,000
SURVIVORS ALLIANCE FOR GROWTH$5,000
THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM$5,000
CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCATION$5,000
JENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS$5,000
GREENER PARTNERS$5,000
ACHIEVE NOW$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%THE BABY BUREAU: $4k → 6%THE BABY BUREAU: $3k → 6%CRADLE OF HOPE: $4k → 7%CRADLE OF HOPE: $3k → 7%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%CRADLE OF HOPE: $3k → 7%MINORITY CENTER FOR PARTICIPATION: $5k → 22%FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%CRADLE OF HOPE: $3k → 7%THE GARCES FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%THE CRADLE OF HOPE: $3k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 10%CAMPBELL COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 10%YOUNGMOMS: $3k → 6%EXPRESSIVE PATH: $5k → 7%CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCATION: $5k → 7%EXPRESSIVE PATH: $3k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 7%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%GERMANTOWN AVENUE CRISIS MINSTRY: $5k → 22%FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%GERMANTOWN AVENUE CRISIS MINISTRY: $3k → 22%GERMANTOWN AVENUE CRISIS MINSTRY: $3k → 22%THE GARCES FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%THE GARCES FOUNDATION: $3k → 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$701k · 56 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
47

Total granted

$701k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+42%

Still filing today

88%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ID
    INN DWELLING INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • TP
    THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +65%
  • JA
    JENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS
    6× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MARJOT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -6%
  • CS
    COLLECTIVE SUCCESS NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • CARING FOR FRIENDSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +54%
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
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
2
Natural Creativity

To help young people and their families enhance their innate ability to think flexibly and meet challenges creatively.

Youth Development
3
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
5
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

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
Educating Communities for Parenting Inc

Using the parent-child model ecp increases the potential for developing life-long positive relationship.

Human Services
8
Build Philly Now

Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.

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9
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
10
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
11
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education
12
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education; the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 119 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/88
Grantees still filing
64/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INN DWELLING INC: $30,000 · OtherINN DWELLING INCCAMP RAINBOW INC: $19,000 · OtherWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $16,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $15,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER ENGLISH PROGRAM IN CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 · OtherHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC: $20,000 · OtherThe Petey Greene Program Inc: $15,000 · Other+57 more: $294,000 · Other+57 moreTREE HOUSE BOOKS: $25,000 · EducationTREE HOUSE BOOKSSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationSAINT JAMES SCHOO…Achieve Now: $15,000 · EducationAchieve NowBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $14,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH OF G…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $13,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE …THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $13,000 · EducationTHE GARAGE COMMUN…THE MARJOT FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · EducationTHE MARJOT FOUNDA…COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationUPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationCENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE: $6,000 · EducationNORRISTOWN PAGE TURNERS: $5,000 · EducationWORKSHOP LEARNING: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,275 · EducationTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE PENNSYLVA…JENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS: $30,000 · EnvironmentJENKINS ARBOR…GREENER PARTNERS: $20,000 · EnvironmentGREENER PARTN…The Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education: $8,000 · EnvironmentThe Schuylkil…Friends of Briar Bush: $6,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Br…PHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Environment+6 more: $10,000 · Environment+6 moreCradle of Hope Inc: $16,000 · Human ServicesCradle of Ho…GARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Human ServicesGARCES FAMIL…Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry: $11,000 · Human ServicesGermantown A…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO C…EXPRESSIVE PATH INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesEXPRESSIVE P…BABY BUREAU: $6,000 · Human ServicesBABY BUREAUFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $6,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVI…FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMinority Center for Participation: $5,000 · Human ServicesCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION: $5,000 · Human ServicesCampbell Community Center: $4,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,500 · Human Services+2 moreNEED IN DEED: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPETER'S PLACE: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ROCK PHILLY: $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentARTZ PHILADELPHIA: $19,000 · HealthKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $10,000 · HealthDMAX FOUNDATION: $8,000 · HealthTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC: $5,000 · HealthMINDING YOUR MIND: $5,000 · HealthWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE: $9,000 · Arts & CultureALLENS LANE ART CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAbington Art Center: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$424,000Education$140,775Environment$109,000Human Services$102,000Youth Development$57,500Health$47,000Arts & Culture$35,000

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 budgetINN DWELLING INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJENKINS ARBORETUM & GARDENS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTREE HOUSE BOOKS: $25,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNEED IN DEED: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC: $20,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetARTZ PHILADELPHIA: $19,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW INC: $19,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $16,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCradle of Hope Inc: $16,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAchieve Now: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $15,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER ENGLISH PROGRAM IN CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $14,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $13,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT: $12,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGermantown Avenue Crisis Ministry: $11,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $10,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNICHOLAS NEWLIN FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPETER'S PLACE: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF NORRISTOWN: $9,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE MARJOT FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGIRLS ROCK PHILLY: $8,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDMAX FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetADOPTION CENTER OF DELAWARE VALLEY: $8,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEXPRESSIVE PATH INC: $7,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetPENNYPACK FARM & EDUCATION CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBABY BUREAU: $6,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Connelly FoundationLindback Cr & Mf Foun…Henrietta Tower Wurts…The Patricia Kind Fam…The William Penn Foun…The Gordon Charter Fo…Union Benevolent Asso…W W Smith Charitable …Claneil Foundation IncSanders Caroline J S …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA85.4× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Union Benevolent Association · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Claneil Foundation Inc · 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 Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
33report 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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Find your warmest path to Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation 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 119 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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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