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Kistler Tiffany Foundation

Provide support for children and adults who are mentally, socially or physically deprived through no fault of their own.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
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 2024.

Health$264kEducation$138kHuman Services$115kFood & Nutrition$100kPhilanthropy$100kHousing & Shelter$6kRecreation & Sports$6k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$31,456
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSIC WORKS$31,456
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 (FY20–23, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PLANNED LIFETIME ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY: $5k → 5%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%TODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $100k → 7%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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$326k · 5 repeat orgs$402k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$326k
$402k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • MC
    MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +238%
  • TC
    THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $106k · revenue +19%
  • M
    MUSICWORKS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $87k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • GF
    G FRED DIBONA JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -4%
  • DB
    DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • TI
    TODAY IS A GOOD DAY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +19%
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
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
2
Melmark Inc

Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…

Human Services
3
Potential Inc

Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.

Human Services
4
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
5
The Children's Institute Parent Company

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
6
Dr Gertrude a Barber Center Inc

We "make dreams come true." we provide children and adults with autism, intellectual/developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges and their families the education, services and resources needed to be self-reliant,…

Human Services
7
Depaul Community Resources

Depaul serves children and families involved in the child welfare system and children and adults with developmental disabilities. vision: opening doors to hope and belonging. corporate mission: we work to support the success of our cients…

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8
Spectrum Support Inc

To form relationships which support people to achieve their life goals in the areas of residential, employment, meaningful community engagement and personal services.

Employment
9
Center for Developmental Disabilities

The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.

Human Services
10
The Arc of Essex County Inc

The arc of essex county provides advocacy and services empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to realize a lifetime of personal achievement and full partnership in the community.

Human Services
11
Linwood Center Inc

Linwood creates the possibility of extraordinary lives for children and adults living with autism and related developmental disabilities by providing education, vocational training, residential support, and employment opportunities.

Education
12
Progress Unlimited Inc

To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Royer-Greaves School for Blind; the most unlike its peers is Student-Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia. 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

16 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.

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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Human ServicesMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATIONTODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $100,000 · Human ServicesTODAY IS A GOOD DAY+2 more: $10,700 · Human ServicesTHE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC: $105,896 · EducationTHE CAMPHILL SCHOOL …A STEP UP ACADEMY INC: $12,280 · EducationA STEP UP ACADEMY IN…LIGUORI INC: $12,000 · EducationLIGUORI INCG FRED DIBONA JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyG FRED DIBONA J…DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $100,000 · Food & NutritionDAILY BREAD COM…MUSICWORKS: $87,206 · Arts & CultureMUSICWORKSPILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE: $50,000 · HealthBARC DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $10,862 · OtherThe Center for Autism: $10,000 · OtherROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND: $7,500 · OtherSTUDENT-RUN EMERGENCY HOUSING UNIT OF PHILADELPHIA: $6,000 · OtherVARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $5,500 · Other
Human Services$220,700Education$130,176Philanthropy$100,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Arts & Culture$87,206Health$50,000Other$39,862

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC: $105,896 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetG FRED DIBONA JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetDAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTODAY IS A GOOD DAY: $100,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetMUSICWORKS: $87,206 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetPILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetA STEP UP ACADEMY INC: $12,280 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIGUORI INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBARC DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $10,862 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Autism: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROYER-GREAVES SCHOOL FOR BLIND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED LIFETIME ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY: $5,200 over 1y, 0.3% 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…Eagles Autism Challen…Chubb Charitable Foun…Foundation for Delawa…The Wawa Foundation I…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Network for Good
The Philadelphia FoundationPA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Eagles Autism Challenge Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Foundation for Delaware County · The Wawa Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%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
    1get no government money at all
    9report 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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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