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· Public charity
MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION
$6.2M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
west chesterchester foodfood cupboardblack menculturallivingserved
2020
bchgendshpscatteredrentalsupportive housingbridge housing
2021
ministrywellnessgreatercatholicsistersimmigrantbirth
2022
eliminationfood pantrythrivesafechoicephoenixvillepoverty
2023
eliminationnhnbecomeneighbors neighborspovertypositiveeducation counseling
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
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.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
02The need
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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, United Way ALICE — 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.
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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
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Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.
Food & Nutrition
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Newark Community Health Centers Inc
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
Health
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Pennsylvania Family Council
Foster social welfare by educating citizens.
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Family Service of Chester County
Provide individual and family support by removing barriers and providing access to resources.
Human Services
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Family Health Council of Central Pa Inc
The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. is to build and support community based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.
Health
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Child Development and Family Council of
Assist qualifying families in obtaining quality child care in the centre county, pa area.
Human Services
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Human Services Inc
Outpatient mental health, mental health residential, and homeless services.
Human Services
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Children's Aid Society of Mercer County
Identify and provide services to improve the quality of life for children and families; providing adoption, daycare, and in-home family based mental health services. children's aid society is dedicated to support and strengthen children,…
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Greater Philadelphia Health Action Inc
FQHC offering Medical Dental Behavioral Child Development Services
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Chester County Hospital & Health System
The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.
Health
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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…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of and the most unlike its peers is Gwynedd Mercy University. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
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 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
4%6/162
the rest of the field
12%
2,547/21,332
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 FoundationPA53.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Montgomery County Foundation Inc · Philabundance · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Connelly Foundation · Healthspark Foundation · Chester County Food Bank · Genuardi Family Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family · Chester County Community 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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Mitzvah Circle Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Mitzvah Circle Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines