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Margaret Raphael Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$507k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Animals$2.6MPhilanthropy$43kHealth$20kHuman Services$10kHousing & Shelter$3k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $319k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$75,000
GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC$50,000
ORPHANS OF THE STORM$50,000
HOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY$37,300
ANIMAL FRIENDS$35,000
SOUTH HILLS PET RESCUE$35,000
ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC$32,000
HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE$25,000
HOMELESS CAT MANAGEMENT TEAM$20,000
TAMERLAINE SANCTUARY & PRESERVE$20,000
RUNAWAYS ANIMAL RESCUE$20,000
BIRD LAB INC$20,000
NO DOG LEFT BEHIND$15,000
WILDLIFE WORKS$15,000
NATIONAL AVIARY PITTSBURGH INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $175k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $58k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $50k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $25k → 16%OUTREACH TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
IN
PA
NJ
KY
AZ
LA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 26 repeat orgs$273k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
17

Total granted

$2.4M
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+3%

Still filing today

81%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • BC
    BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $310k · revenue +63%
  • GA
    GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $308k · revenue +20%
  • OO
    ORPHANS OF THE STORM
    3× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • AP
    Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -4%
  • MM
    MALCOLMS MAGIC COMMUNITY CAT ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • MF
    Monroeville Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $23k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
2
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
3
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
4
Raskels Rescue
Animals
5
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
6
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
7
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
8
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
9
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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10
Jl Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
11
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
12
Pats Pets Corporation

Animal rescue

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Bird Lab Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%8%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr15%13%35–55yr17%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%45%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr15%2%35–55yr17%33%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
9%
7,128/78,121

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 47 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $310,000 · AnimalsBEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYHEAL ANIMAL RESCUE — $259,400 · AnimalsHEAL ANIMAL RESCUEORPHANS OF THE STORM — $150,000 · AnimalsORPHANS OF THE STORMTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC — $145,000 · AnimalsTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INCHOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY — $132,500 · AnimalsHOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARYHumane Society Of Westmoreland County — $100,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE WORKS INC — $92,500 · AnimalsWASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY — $82,819 · AnimalsHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE — $75,000 · AnimalsAnimal Friends Inc — $70,000 · Animals+23 more — $529,870 · Animals+23 moreANIMAL FRIENDS OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY — $175,000 · OtherANIMAL FRIENDS O…SOUTH HILLS PET RESCUE — $130,000 · OtherSOUTH HILLS PET …Senior Hearts Rescue and Renewal — $33,060 · OtherSenior Hearts Re…MARGARET RAPHAEL FOUNDATION-TR — $20,000 · OtherPETS FOR THE ELDERLY — $15,000 · Other+5 more — $32,000 · Other+5 moreGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $308,338 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGE…+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesMonroeville Foundation Inc — $22,956 · PhilanthropyUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES — $20,000 · Health
Animals$1,947,089Other$405,060Human Services$318,338Philanthropy$22,956Health$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $310,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $308,338 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetHEAL ANIMAL RESCUE — $259,400 over 2y, 42% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM — $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ARABIAN RESCUE MISSION INC — $145,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetHOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY — $132,500 over 5y, 23% of budgetHumane Society Of Westmoreland County — $100,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetWILDLIFE WORKS INC — $92,500 over 5y, 24% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY — $82,819 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $60,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNo Dog Left Behind — $45,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetRunaways Animal Rescue — $42,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBird Lab Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAW WARRIORS INC — $27,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetAnimal Protectors of Allegheny Valley — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMALCOLMS MAGIC COMMUNITY CAT ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCLUB PET ADOPTION INC — $25,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWashington Humane Society — $19,870 over 1y, 47% of budgetGRAY PAWS SANCTUARY — $17,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetNO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetOutreach Teen and Family Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBedford County Humane Society — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHumane Society of Greene County Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetANIMAL ADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHELLO BULLY — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Eqt FoundationPeterson Family Found…Shear Family Foundati…The Cigna Group Found…Fred J and Shirley H …The United Way of Sou…Jessie Corson TrustJames and Melanie Cro…Herbert G Feldman Cha…Edward B Dunlap Jr Fo…Hillman Family Founda…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA27.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation-Tr · Shear Family Foundation Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · Fred J and Shirley H Jordan Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Jessie Corson Trust · James and Melanie Crockard Foundation · Herbert G Feldman Charitable Foundation · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations

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 Margaret Raphael 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s 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 · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Margaret Raphael Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Margaret Raphael Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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