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Foundation for Health Equity

FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH EQUITY supports communities of nw philadelphia by building on the assets of organizations that work to address systemic health inequities in order to build healthy, vibrant neighborhoods.

$649k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$275k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.2MHealth$809kHuman Services$711kCrime & Legal$396kEducation$285kYouth Development$167kHousing & Shelter$145kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $635,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $648,807 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,807 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $299k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$26,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY$275,000
CENTER IN THE PARK$61,000
NORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COALITION$41,000
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM$31,000
WHY NOT PROSPER INC$31,000
PHILADELPHIA MIDWIFE COLLECTIVE$29,000
MANNA$26,000
FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS$26,000
PHILADELPHIA CHILDRENS ALLIANCE$26,000
MATERNITY CARE COALITION$26,000
SMALL THINGS INC$26,000
STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE$21,000
SENIORLAW CENTER$16,000
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, $978k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRADLE OF HOPE: $10k → 7%UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10k → 22%THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10k → 22%THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $5k → 22%KENCREST CENTERS: $5k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $9k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%SENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $30k → 7%INTERFAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $10k → 7%SENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $16k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $8k → 7%SENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $15k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $8k → 7%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $10k → 7%ROXBOROUGH YMCA: $10k → 7%CENTER IN THE PARK: $96k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $61k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $60k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $50k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $43k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $36k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $35k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $35k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $30k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $26k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $25k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $25k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $20k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $20k → 22%NORTHWEST PHILADELPHIA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK (PIHN): $15k → 22%NORTHWEST PHILADELPHIA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK (PIHN): $15k → 22%PHILADELPHIA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK: $15k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $8k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $8k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND (RHD): $33k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND (RHD): $33k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 38 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
19

Total granted

$3.6M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+33%

Still filing today

97%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • CI
    CENTER IN THE PARK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $446k · revenue +9%
  • SF
    SHARE FOOD PROGRAM
    8× · 2017–2025 · $281k · revenue +572%
  • MC
    Maternity Care Coalition
    9× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • AF
    AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +115%
  • WC
    WISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +39%
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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
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
3
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
4
The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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5
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
6
Turning Points for Children

To nurture families with children who are struggling against economic and environmental odds, giving them the critical resources, life skills and supportive partnerships to create stronger families and raise children with hope for a…

Human Services
7
Pennsylvania Community Real Estate Corp

None

Housing & Shelter
8
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
9
Together for West Philadelphia

Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.

Unclassified
10
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
11
Philadelphia Health Services Inc

Mentoring and educational programs for female youth

Youth Development
12
Pmhcc Inc

The mission of pmhcc is to improve service and recovery opportunities for persons who are challenged by serious and/or prolonged mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse and/or other barriers to self-sufficiency, in support of those citizens…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Henry J & Willemina B Kuhn Day Camp. 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

54 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. 54 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
41/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER IN THE PARK: $445,558 · Human ServicesCENTER IN THE PARKFACE TO FACE INC: $116,428 · Human ServicesFACE TO FACE INCNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INCResources for Human Development Inc: $66,000 · Human ServicesResources for Human Developme…FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $65,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PASENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER OF MONTGO: $61,428 · Human ServicesSENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTE…FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $45,000 · Human Services+7 more: $106,500 · Human Services+7 moreSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $281,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAMMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $186,000 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA NE…NORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC: $164,250 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID…CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $29,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionVNA - COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $260,000 · OtherVNA - COMMUNITY SERVIC…SMALL THINGS INC: $116,000 · OtherSMALL THINGS INCSUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK (SOWN): $47,500 · OtherSUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN…Why Not Prosper Inc: $94,000 · OtherWhy Not Prosper IncCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21: $60,000 · OtherCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER …+15 more: $155,600 · Other+15 morePHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $214,928 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHI…SENIORLAW CENTER: $106,000 · Crime & LegalSENIORLAW C…Support Center for Child Advocates: $50,000 · Crime & LegalSupport Cen…ANTI-VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $10,000 · Crime & LegalMaternity Care Coalition: $216,000 · HealthMaternity C…KEYSTONE CARE: $47,500 · HealthKEYSTONE CA…PHILADELPHIA MIDWIFE COLLECTIVE: $47,000 · HealthPHILADELPHI…BREASTFEEDING RESOURCE CENTER: $31,428 · HealthBREASTFEEDI…COVENANT HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $15,000 · HealthGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $280,000 · EducationWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationWEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $91,000 · Youth DevelopmentFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $13,500 · Youth Development
Human Services$990,914Food & Nutrition$665,250Other$733,100Crime & Legal$395,928Health$376,928Education$295,000Youth Development$290,500

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 budgetCENTER IN THE PARK: $445,558 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $281,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $280,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVNA - COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $260,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $216,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $214,928 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $186,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC: $164,250 over 4y, 29% of budgetWEAVERS WAY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: $160,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC: $116,428 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSMALL THINGS INC: $116,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER: $106,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $94,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $91,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC: $85,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetResources for Human Development Inc: $66,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $65,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER OF MONTGO: $61,428 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKEYSTONE CARE: $47,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MIDWIFE COLLECTIVE: $47,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBREASTFEEDING RESOURCE CENTER: $31,428 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $29,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetUPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEDUCATION-PLUS INC DBA EDUCATION PLUS HEALTH: $24,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetStarfinder Foundation: $22,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $18,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCommittee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetANTI-VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $13,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCradle of Hope Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEARING UP: $7,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE COLLEGE SETTLEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKENCREST CENTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $5,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHENRY J & WILLEMINA B KUHN DAY CAMP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN IN DIALOGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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…W W Smith Charitable …The Patricia Kind Fam…United Way of Greater…The Leo and Peggy Pie…The William Penn Foun…Union Benevolent Asso…The Gordon Charter Fo…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Barra Foundation …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA71.5× affinity37 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 · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Union Benevolent Association · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc

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 Foundation for Health Equity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Health Equity. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    25report 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.

    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 58 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 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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