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Friends Foundation for the Aging at a glance

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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.

$557k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MReligion$566kHousing & Shelter$264kCivil Rights$249kFood & Nutrition$197kCrime & Legal$161kEmployment$137kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $475k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$64,000
UJIMA FRIENDS PEACE CENTER$35,000
Individual grant recipient$30,500
CENTER IN THE PARK$30,000
PENDLE HILL$30,000
BRIGHT SIDE MANOR$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
WITNESS TO INNOCENCE$25,000
FRIENDS SERVICES ALLIANCE$25,000
QUAKER VOLUNTARY SERVICE$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%QUAKER VOLUNTARY SERVICE: $25k → 16%KENDAL AT HOME: $35k → 17%BRIGHT SIDE MANOR: $35k → 7%ACT NOW FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%BROADMEAD: $1k → 11%FRIENDS SERVICES FOR THE AGING: $37k → 7%KENDAL AT HOME: $1k → 17%BRIGHT SIDE MANOR: $30k → 7%ACT NOW FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%FRIENDS SERVICES FOR THE AGING: $36k → 7%BRIGHT SIDE MANOR: $30k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP: $30k → 16%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 10%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 10%PHILADELPHIA CORP FOR AGING: $31k → 22%FRIENDS LIFE CARE: $2k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $30k → 22%MONTCO SAAC: $20k → 7%MONTCO SAAC: $5k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $28k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $30k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $30k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $11k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $11k → 22%CONNECTEDLY: $15k → 22%SOWN: $15k → 22%SOWN: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
MD
NC
GA
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 37 repeat orgs$785k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
38

Total granted

$3.6M
$720k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+11%

Still filing today

49%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FH
    FRIENDS HOUSE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +81%
  • AP
    ARTZ PHILADELPHIA
    5× · 2019–2023 · $116k · revenue +159%
  • PH
    Pendle Hill
    5× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue -5%
  • CH
    CHANDLER HALL HEALTH SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue +4%
  • CE
    COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
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
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
2
National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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3
National Church Residences At Home Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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4
National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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5
National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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6
Hebrew Health Care Inc

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…

Health
7
Lifecare Inc

To establish, operate and maintain retirement facilities for the elderly in michigan.

Human Services
8
The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

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…

Human Services
9
Kendal At Hanover I

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

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…

Health
11
Ncr At Home Health and Wellness

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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12
Christian Care Retirement Apartments Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends House Retirement Community; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 82 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK YEARLY MEETING: $345,000 · OtherNEW YORK YEARLY MEETINGAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $246,600 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEIndividual grant recipient: $192,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS SERVICES ALLIANCE: $152,615 · OtherFRIENDS SERVICES ALLIANCERALSTON CENTERMY WAY: $152,569 · OtherRALSTON CENTERMY WAYJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SVC: $111,000 · OtherPendle Hill: $104,600 · OtherKINDERSMILE: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $91,500 · Other+44 more: $1,190,640 · Other+44 moreFRIENDS HOUSE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $199,777 · HealthFRIENDS HOUSE RETI…TRINITAS FOUNDATION: $199,000 · HealthTRINITAS FOUNDATIO…ARTZ PHILADELPHIA: $116,000 · HealthARTZ PHILADELPHIABARCLAY FRIENDS: $90,000 · HealthBARCLAY FRIENDSCHANDLER HALL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $42,500 · HealthCHANDLER HALL HEAL…Camden Coalition Inc: $35,000 · HealthCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $18,000 · HealthGERIATRIC SERVICES INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesGERIATRIC SERVI…CENTER IN THE PARK: $82,300 · Human ServicesCENTER IN THE P…Friends Services for the Aging: $73,036 · Human ServicesFriends Service…Quaker Voluntary Service Inc: $61,455 · Human ServicesQuaker Voluntar…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $58,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY A…ACT NOW FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesACT NOW FOUNDAT…CONNECTEDLY: $40,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTEDLYKENDAL AT HOME: $36,000 · Human ServicesKENDAL AT HOMEPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $31,431 · Human ServicesJewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey: $30,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER OF MONTGO: $25,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,700 · Human ServicesUJIMA FRIENDS PEACE CENTER INC: $136,985 · ReligionWOOLMAN HILL INC: $30,000 · ReligionBEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC: $28,000 · ReligionBALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS INC: $10,000 · ReligionWITNESS TO INNOCENCE: $160,600 · Crime & LegalSTAND UP FOR SALEM: $35,000 · Community ImprovementNew Community Corporation: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,681,524Health$730,277Human Services$599,922Religion$204,985Crime & Legal$160,600Community Improvement$35,000Housing & Shelter$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS HOUSE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $199,777 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITAS FOUNDATION: $199,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWITNESS TO INNOCENCE: $160,600 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetUJIMA FRIENDS PEACE CENTER INC: $136,985 over 4y, 49% of budgetARTZ PHILADELPHIA: $116,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetPendle Hill: $104,600 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGERIATRIC SERVICES INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBARCLAY FRIENDS: $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER IN THE PARK: $82,300 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetQuaker Voluntary Service Inc: $61,455 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $58,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HICKMAN FRIENDS SENIOR COMMUNITY OF WEST CHESTER: $57,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc: $51,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHANDLER HALL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $42,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACT NOW FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $40,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetKENDAL AT HOME: $36,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCamden Coalition Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTAND UP FOR SALEM: $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $31,431 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOOLMAN HILL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetJewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC: $28,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSENIOR ADULT ACTIVITIES CENTER OF MONTGO: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIVEWELL FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew Community Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS LIFE CARE: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADMEAD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ACT NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTEDLY ↗
  • Who funds KENDAL AT HOME ↗
  • Who funds Camden Coalition Inc ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP FOR SALEM ↗

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.

Friends Fiduciary Cor…The Gordon Charter Fo…The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…Thomas H & Mary Willi…W W Smith Charitable …The William Penn Foun…D'Olier FoundationThe Sarah Ralston Fou…The Leo and Peggy Pie…Community Foundation …AARP
Friends Fiduciary CorporationPA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Friends Foundation for the Aging?

Find your warmest path to Friends Foundation for the Aging 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 82 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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