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Friends Foundation for the Aging
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $475k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $64,000 |
| UJIMA FRIENDS PEACE CENTER | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,500 |
| PENDLE HILL | $30,000 |
| BRIGHT SIDE MANOR | $30,000 |
| CENTER IN THE PARK | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS SERVICES ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| QUAKER VOLUNTARY SERVICE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| WITNESS TO INNOCENCE | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS HOUSE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ATLANTIC CO | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE | $20,000 |
| KINDERSMILE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $563k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FHFRIENDS HOUSE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY6× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +81%
- APARTZ PHILADELPHIA5× · 2019–2023 · $116k · revenue +159%
- PHPendle Hill5× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +33%
Funded once
Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Incone grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue -5%- CHCHANDLER HALL HEALTH SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue +4%
- CECOMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERone grant, 2018 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
To establish, operate and maintain retirement facilities for the elderly in michigan.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
Kendal at Hanover is a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community characterized by mutual respect, integrity and a concern for each other's welfare that fosters the independence, vitality, health and security of older persons and…
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends House Retirement Community and the most unlike its peers is Ujima Friends Peace Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRIENDS HOUSE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WITNESS TO INNOCENCE ↗
- Who funds UJIMA FRIENDS PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTZ PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Pendle Hill ↗
- Who funds GERIATRIC SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BARCLAY FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds CENTER IN THE PARK ↗
- Who funds Friends Services for the Aging ↗
- Who funds Quaker Voluntary Service Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER HALL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTEDLY ↗
- Who funds ACT NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENDAL AT HOME ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR SALEM ↗
- Who funds Camden Coalition Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Friends Fiduciary Corporation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The William Penn Foundation · D'Olier Foundation · The Sarah Ralston Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · AARP
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Friends Foundation for the Aging funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Stand Up for Salem — 23% of income from government
- New Community Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Act Now Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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