· Private foundation
Kenneth C Simon and Tina M Saracino Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $12k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY | $118,625 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,250 |
| FAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| READING FILM FEST | $1,000 |
| OFF THE STREET SUSQUEHANNA | $1,000 |
| RAMAH DAY CAMP | $500 |
| HERSEY ACADEMY | $500 |
| FREINDS OF THE READING POLICE K-9 UNIT | $500 |
| LGBT EQUALITY ALLIANCE | $500 |
| BLANKETS OF HOPE | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
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 (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- ARANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $753k · revenue +40%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA6× · 2019–2024 · $17k · revenue +59%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- RCRED CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +50%
- ODOLD DOG HAVENone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
The purpose of the rescue shall be to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome dogs in needwithin new york city and surrounding areas.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
To provide shelter and placement of homeless dogs and cats.
Rescue every dog is a shelter support organization whose mission is to find permanent homes for animals on rural shelter euthanasia lists.
Distributing grants for support of orphans and their families, and to institutions that assist orphans.
Our mission is to rescue and re-home abandoned, abused, sick, and injured animals from the street and animals on death row in our local high-kill shelters.
Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…
Rhodesian Ridgeback Rescue is dedicated to the rescue, care, and adoption of abandoned or unwanted Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs, as well as to protecting and preserving the integrity and welfare of the Rhodesian Ridgeback breed.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Valley Golden Retriever and the most unlike its peers is Outcast Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds RED CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWTCAKE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds READINGFILMFEST ↗
- Who funds RUDDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LGBT EQUALITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Survivor Mitzvah Project ↗
- Who funds BLANKETS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds OUTCAST RESCUE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY GOLDEN RETRIEVER ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Kenneth C Simon and Tina M Saracino Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.