How much did PA Alliance Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of PA Alliance Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath 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

2020

partnervalidator communicationsyouthcreatebuilds powerworking classeconomic justice

2021

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2022

pre-primaryintegrationactivitiescampusmovementunderstandingadvocates

2023

black menstudentsgrassrootsmovementsleadersvotingstates

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k40 grants · $880k
$50k–250k20 grants · $1.9M
$250k+5 grants · $1.7M

$27,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

Project 26 Pennsylvania$595,000
The Voter Project Fund$400,000
Organize Pennsylania$250,000
Pennsylvania United$250,000
Working Families Organization Inc$250,000
Lead PA Institute$221,000
Commonwealth Communications$200,000
Project Keystone$186,000
Project 26 Pennsylvania$120,000
The Voter Project Fund$100,000
Project 26 Pennsylvania$100,000
Working Families Organization Inc$100,000
In This Together NEPA$100,000
Pennsylvania United$91,000
Project 26 Pennsylvania$75,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$17M · 22 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +186% since the first grant, against +158% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+186%

+158%

Still filing today

95%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

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The Voter Project Fund
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +14100%
PI
POWER Interfaith
3× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +134%
Pennslyvania Voice
5× · 2020–2024 · $637k · revenue +1567%

Funded once

CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY
one grant, 2020 · $223k · revenue +10%
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MAKE THE ROADgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $212k · revenue +35%
KR
KEYSTONE RESEARCH CENTER INC
one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +12%

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.

Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Keystone Democracy

Keystone Democracy's goal is to ensure that all Pennsylvania elections are implemented in a safe, secure, convenient and fair manner. We work to advance pro-democracy policies by informing elected officials, civic leaders, the media, and…

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Community Justice Project

Cjp engages in class action litigation, administrative law, legislative advocacy, and other forms of impact litigation to help create positive change for low-income residents across pennsylvania.

Crime & Legal

Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment

Promote the Vote Pa

Cultivating strong civic and community participation at every level of state government. advocating for fair, accessible and modern elections.

Human Services

Pa Alliance Foundation

Focused on civic engagement and democracy advancement across pennsylvania.

Civil Rights

The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal

Coalition for Dc Representation in

Founded in 1998, dc vote is a national citizen engagement and advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening democracy and securing equality for all in the district of columbia.

Education

Pennsylvania State Education Association

We support, empower, and advocate for members, students, and public education.

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Council for Court Excellence

Bring people together to research, educate, & advocate for a fair, equitable dc legal system.

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Philadelphia Chinatown Development

Pcdc provides bilingual, culturally sensitive assistance and services to clients in philadelphia's chinatown neighborhood

Community Improvement

Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

Policy and advocacy

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania Voice and the most unlike its peers is Franklin & Marshall College. 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.

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 12 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

5/76

the rest of the field

6,102/78,086

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.

05the grantee network

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/63

Grantees still filing

51/63

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$13,494,958Civil Rights$4,109,363Community Improvement$1,196,000Employment$497,802Human Services$384,277Public Benefit$280,720Crime & Legal$236,621

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

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.

Pennsylvania VoicePA46.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pennsylvania Voice · Tides Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Clean and Prosperous America · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · The William Penn Foundation · Hopewell Fund · The Pittsburgh 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation PA Alliance 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Lead PA Institute.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853429918 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Lead PA Institute, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 61% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to PA Alliance Foundation?

Find your warmest path to PA Alliance 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.

PA Alliance Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to PA Alliance Foundation?

More from the funding graph

PA Alliance Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to PA Alliance Foundation?

More from the funding graph