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Montgomery County Foundation Inc

To develop, receive, administer and manage, under community control, funds received from public and private sources and distribute them for charitable purposes, primarily to meet local needs.

$357k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Human Services$1.2MHousing & Shelter$379kHealth$357kEducation$316kFood & Nutrition$239kYouth Development$131kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kCrime & Legal$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $159,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $356,698 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $197,198 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCESS SERVICES$44,500
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE$15,000
NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC$10,000
ROXY THERAPY DOGS INC$10,000
LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
MANNA ON MAIN STREET$10,000
BUCKS-MONT COLLABORATIVE$10,000
PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION$10,000
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$10,000
FAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $641k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 8%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION & NARBERTH: $15k → 10%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $61k → 11%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $6k → 11%COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC: $5k → 11%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $5k → 10%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $15k → 11%PHOENIXVILLE SPRING VALLEY YMCA: $16k → 6%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $15k → 11%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 6%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $12k → 11%MOMS HOUSE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 6%THE CRADLE OF HOPE: $5k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $9k → 11%PHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 6%KENCREST SERVICES: $7k → 7%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $10k → 6%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $10k → 7%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $10k → 7%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $5k → 7%SILVER SPRINGS-MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $5k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%THE VILLAGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES: $13k → 22%TRICOUNTY ACTIVE ADULT CENTER: $10k → 7%POTTSTOWN YWCA-DAWN PROJECT: $5k → 7%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $5k → 7%MITZVAH CIRCLE: $10k → 7%MITZVAH CIRCLE: $5k → 7%UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $15k → 7%SENIOR ADULT ACTIVITY CENTER OF INDIAN VALLEY: $10k → 7%PAWS AND AFFECTION: $11k → 7%PAWS AND AFFECTION: $10k → 7%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION: $60k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $55k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $30k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $20k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $12k → 7%CECIL & GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10k → 7%CECIL & GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $5k → 7%CECIL & GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $5k → 7%CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK: $5k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION: $5k → 7%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $15k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $10k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $10k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $10k → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 45 repeat orgs$498k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
57

Total granted

$2.6M
$478k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+34%

Still filing today

89%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • AS
    ACCESS SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $279k · revenue +54%
  • PC
    Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti
    6× · 2017–2023 · $232k · revenue +85%
  • KO
    KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • AU
    ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +21%
  • FS
    FOCUS STRATEGIES
    one grant, 2021 · $22k
  • TO
    THE OPEN LINK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +0%
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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
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
3
Milestone Centers Inc

Milestone provides quality, life-enhancing services that promote wellness and the development of human potential to people with behavioral health and intellectual challenges. each year milestone serves approximately 3,500 residents of…

Health
4
Philhaven

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

Health
5
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

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

Human Services
6
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
7
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

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8
Penn State Health

Penn state health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and equitable care; educates and trains (continued…

Health
9
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
10
Pennsylvania Community Real Estate Corp

None

Housing & Shelter
11
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
12
Pennsylvania Health Access Network

Phan is pennsylvania's only statewide consumer-driven organization working to expand and protect access to high-quality, equitable healthcare for all pennsylvanians.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carson Valley Children's Aid; the most unlike its peers is Colonial Neighborhood Council. 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

94 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 105 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/94
Grantees still filing
77/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCESS SERVICES INC: $279,398 · OtherACCESS SERVICES INCPottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti: $231,599 · OtherPottstown Cluster of Religious CommunitiCatholic Social Services: $75,000 · OtherVARIETY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $73,288 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $70,700 · OtherMANNA ON MAIN STREET: $62,628 · OtherTHE PATHWAY SCHOOL: $58,088 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA: $55,000 · OtherLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $67,000 · Other+35 more: $575,228 · Other+35 moreVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $123,600 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMI…ACLAMO: $115,000 · Human ServicesACLAMOMontgomery County Community Action Development Commission: $65,000 · Human ServicesMontgomery County Commun…Gemma Services: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $30,000 · Human ServicesMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCECIL AND GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSE: $28,800 · Human Services+21 more: $217,057 · Human Services+21 moreCarson Valley Children's Aid: $202,687 · HealthCarson Valley…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $72,648 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'…HEDWIG HOUSE: $35,221 · HealthHEDWIG HOUSE+12 more: $70,600 · Health+12 moreKEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $197,301 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $32,562 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION: $30,605 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationPhoenixville Public Library: $19,300 · EducationBucknell University: $15,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationROXY READING INC: $10,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,500 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationDAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $56,334 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMontgomery County Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc: $70,000 · Employment
Other$1,547,929Human Services$669,457Health$381,156Housing & Shelter$207,301Education$162,967Food & Nutrition$71,334Employment$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACCESS SERVICES INC: $279,398 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti: $231,599 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCarson Valley Children's Aid: $202,687 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $197,301 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $123,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetACLAMO: $115,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $73,288 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $72,648 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery County Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $67,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMontgomery County Community Action Development Commission: $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMANNA ON MAIN STREET: $62,628 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PATHWAY SCHOOL: $58,088 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $56,334 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEVS HUMAN SERVICES: $38,939 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPETER BECKER COMMUNITY: $38,872 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEDWIG HOUSE: $35,221 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $32,562 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $31,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPATRICIAN SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NORRISTOWN: $30,950 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR POTTSTOWN EDUCATION: $30,605 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetGemma Services: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOLONIAL NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $30,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCECIL AND GRACE BEANS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $30,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE: $28,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Friends of Valley Forge Valley Forge Park Alliance: $25,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS AND AFFECTION INC: $20,548 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBUCKS-MONT COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetTHE OPEN LINK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPhoenixville Public Library: $19,300 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $16,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBucknell University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $12,236 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOTTSTOWN AREA SENIORS' CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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…W W Smith Charitable …Healthspark FoundationGenuardi Family Found…Vna Foundation of Gre…United Way of Greater…The Leo and Peggy Pie…The Gordon Charter Fo…Connelly FoundationQuest for the BestMitzvah Circle Founda…The Cedarcrest Charit…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA87.3× affinity51 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 · Healthspark Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Quest for the Best · Mitzvah Circle Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Community Options Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Montgomery County Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Montgomery County Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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