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Kenneth C Simon and Tina M Saracino Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kenneth C Simon and Tina M Saracino Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$770kInternational$36kHealth$18kRecreation & Sports$4kArts & Culture$3kYouth Development$2kHousing & Shelter$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$67k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLANKETS OF HOPE: $250 → 20%BLANKETS OF HOPE: $250 → 20%RUDDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
DE
TN
DC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$787k · 10 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$787k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+50%

Still filing today

70%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $753k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $17k · revenue +59%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • RC
    RED CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +50%
  • OD
    OLD DOG HAVEN
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
Raskels Rescue
Animals
2
Adams County Pet Rescue

Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.

Animals
3
Every Last One Rescue Inc

The purpose of the rescue shall be to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome dogs in needwithin new york city and surrounding areas.

Animals
4
Humane Pennsylvania

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.

Animals
5
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society

Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.

Animals
6
Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc

To provide shelter and placement of homeless dogs and cats.

Animals
7
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
8
Rescue Every Dog

Rescue every dog is a shelter support organization whose mission is to find permanent homes for animals on rural shelter euthanasia lists.

Animals
9
Diskin Orphan Home of Israel Inc

Distributing grants for support of orphans and their families, and to institutions that assist orphans.

International
10
Luv Us Mutts

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.

Animals
11
Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota (Ragom) Inc

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…

Animals
12
Rhodesian Ridgeback Rescue Inc

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Valley Golden Retriever; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 34 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $753,114 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC+5 more: $14,402 · AnimalsJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 · International+1 more: $515 · InternationalTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $16,500 · HealthEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $1,619 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherFAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · OtherHERSEY ACADEMY: $1,000 · OtherDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1,000 · OtherOFF THE STREET SUSQUEHANNA: $1,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN REP THEATRE: $1,000 · OtherRAMAH DAY CAMP: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherGIRL ON THE RUN OF BERKS: $1,000 · OtherBCCC: $800 · OtherREADINGFILMFEST: $1,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 · Other+6 more: $2,739 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $3,425 · Recreation & SportsCAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $360 · Recreation & SportsRUDDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBLANKETS OF HOPE INC: $500 · Human ServicesLGBT EQUALITY ALLIANCE: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Animals$767,516International$34,515Health$18,119Other$16,539Recreation & Sports$3,785Human Services$1,500Civil Rights$1,000

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 budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $753,114 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRED CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $10,250 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $3,425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN: $2,120 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $1,619 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWTCAKE REFUGE INC: $1,032 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLGBT EQUALITY ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRUDDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREADINGFILMFEST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSurvivor Mitzvah Project: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY GOLDEN RETRIEVER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLANKETS OF HOPE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUTCAST RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $360 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.

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 Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY12× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kenneth C Simon and Tina M Saracino Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth C Simon and Tina M Saracino Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 34 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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