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Penn Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1k
Largest
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 FY20232024.

Health$7kEducation$1kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$1kAnimals$500Human Services$500Religion$500
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$99k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR STEPHANIE NICOLE PARZE$1,250
HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATION (HCMA)$1,000
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF TEEN SUICIDE (SPTS)$1,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,000
SPINA BIFIDA RESOURCE NETWORK$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$500
SHRINERS$500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$500
FULFILL$500
THE HEAL FOUNDATION$500
MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA$500
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 (FY23–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FULFILL: $500 → 6%FULFILL: $500 → 6%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.

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5k · 4 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
1

Total granted

$5k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-9%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationReligionAnimalsOther

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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +29%
  • TF
    THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +16%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • JI
    JH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -9%

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
Simon's Fund

To prevent sudden cardiac arrest and death in children, teens and young adults.

Health
2
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
3
Regenerative Research Foundation

The principal mission of the regenerative research foundation is to develop regenerative stem cell therapies for diseases of the central nervous system (cns): the brain, spinal cord, and retina.

Health
4
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
5
Ms Hope for a Cure Inc

Ms hope for a cure's mission is to support individuals living with multiple sclerosis ("ms") and their families by raising money to fund essential programs and services at ms care centers and other ms organizations and to fund critical…

Health
6
Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation

The Mt. Sinai Health Foundation improves the health of Greater Cleveland by investing resources, convening, and collaborating - with a focus on: - Equitable health outcomes- Health of the Jewish community- Academic medicine and bioscience…

Health
7
Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Canc

Founded in 1997, the hirshberg foundation for pancreatic cancer research is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing pancreatic cancer research, and providing information, resources, and support to pancreatic cancer…

Philanthropy
8
The Sam Simon Feeding Families Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
10
Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center Inc

The mission of the daughters of sarah nursing center, inc. is to enhance the quality of life, assure the safety and dignity, and foster the independence of those we serve through residential, personal care, health and other quality…

Health
11
Julia Hospice & Palliative Care

Julia hospice & palliative care is focused not just on physical illness or disease like traditional care, but also addresses the emotional/physchological, spiritaul and now cultureal components of health and wellness, and offers support…

Health
12
Hht Foundation

Hht foundation international, inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving individuals affected by hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (hht). the organization provides information to patients, family members, and healthcare…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jh Israel. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL I…SPINA BIFIDA RESOURCE NETWORK — $1,000 · HealthSPINA BIFIDA RESOURCE NETWORKHYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · HealthHYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATIO…FOUNDATION FOR STEPHANIE NICOLE PARZE — $1,250 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR STEPHANIE NICOLE…SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF TEEN SUICIDE (SPTS) — $1,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF T…SHRINERS — $500 · OtherSHRINERSRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSETHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODB…The Heal Foundation Inc — $1,000 · PhilanthropyThe Heal …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…JH ISRAEL — $1,000 · ReligionJH ISRAELMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA — $500 · Animals
Health$4,000Other$3,250Human Services$1,000Philanthropy$1,000Education$1,000Religion$1,000Animals$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heal Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPINA BIFIDA RESOURCE NETWORK — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJH ISRAEL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 organization Penn Family Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Penn Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Penn Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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