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Mitzvah Circle Foundation

To provide support to individuals and families during times of individual crisis, poverty, homelessness and serious illness.

$6.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $6,186,567.

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Median grant
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
02The need
02

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.

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 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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Princeton Healthcare System a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of princeton healthcare system is to provide exceptional, compassionate care to enhance the health and wellness of our patients, their families, and our community. princeton healthcare system provides inpatient and outpatient…

Health
3
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
4
Chespenn Health Services Inc

To provide comprehensive primary and preventive care and social services to medically underserved families and individuals regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
5
Maternal & Family Health Services Inc

As a private non-profit health and human services organization, maternal and family health services (mfhs) works to meet the health and nutrition needs of northeastern pennsylvania's women, children, and families with essential…

Health
6
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
7
Mercy Life Center Corporation

We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…

Health
8
Turning Points for Children

To nurture families with children who are struggling against economic and environmental odds, giving them the critical resources, life skills and supportive partnerships to create stronger families and raise children with hope for a…

Human Services
9
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter
10
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
11
Catholic Community Services

Community Umbrella Agency (CUA) within Phila. DHS child welfare network. Case management, prevention services and community support network to strengthen struggling families and safeguard at- risk children in their own homes and…

12
The Wright Center Medical Group

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Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charles & Anne S Genuardi Family Foundation C/O Josephine Mccabe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyInternational Christian Mis…Elementary School PTOsBehavioral Health & Disabil…Fraternal Social ClubsCharter Schools and SupportHealthcare Support & Servic…Food Security & Homelessnes…Neighborhood Development Co…Private Membership ClubsFamily Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr14%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr18%0%20–35yr12%0%35–55yr14%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%6/161
the rest of the field
14%
2,934/21,333

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.

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 Philadelphia FoundationPA56.7× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Philabundance · Montgomery County Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Genuardi Family Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Healthspark Foundation · Chester County Food Bank · Pottstown Regional Community Foundation Fka Pottstown Area Health and Wellness

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mitzvah Circle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mitzvah Circle 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— 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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