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Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children

Pennyslvania partnerships for children is a strong, effective, and trusted voice for improving the health, education, and well being of the children and youth in pennsylvania.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$331k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$2.9MHealth$1.8MEducation$462kFood & Nutrition$424kPhilanthropy$245k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $969k
  • $250k+1 grant · $331k
$93,897
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN (PENNAEYC)$331,257
CHILDREN FIRST$235,382
MATERNITY CARE COALITION$211,367
TRYING TOGETHER$183,666
ALLIES FOR CHILDREN$100,000
FIRST UP$93,897
PENNSYLVANIA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION$93,288
UNITED WAY$51,266
PENNSYLVANIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION$38,341
PENNSYLVANIA AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS$15,000
THE ARC OF PENNSYLVANIA$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PENNSYLVANIA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $93k → 8%THE ARC OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION: $38k → 12%CHILDREN FIRST: $279k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $89k → 8%THE ARC OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%CHILDREN FIRST: $235k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $83k → 8%THE ARC OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%CHILDREN FIRST: $230k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST: $224k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $63k → 8%CHILDREN FIRST: $175k → 22%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $20k → 22%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $136k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $108k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $9k → 8%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $54k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $26k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $24k → 11%FIRST UP: $102k → 22%FIRST UP: $99k → 22%FIRST UP: $94k → 22%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $55k → 22%FIRST UP: $15k → 22%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 14 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$5.7M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+18%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • CF
    Children First PA
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +140%
  • PA
    Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +67%
  • MC
    Maternity Care Coalition
    6× · 2020–2025 · $810k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • AE
    Annie E Casey Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -44%
  • PA
    PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF INTERMEDIATE UNITSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +90%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue -42%
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
Lead Pa

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

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2
Early Connections Inc

The organization is a leading organization in northwestern pennsylvania for quality early care and education. the organization provides direct service as well as training and planning leadership for a wide georaphic region.

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3
Pennsylvania Council of Children Youth & Family Services

To support and promote an accessible delivery system so that the membership is positioned to participate in decision making and allocation of resources that affect the provision of quality comprehensive services for children, youth, and…

Human Services
4
Philadelphia Children's Alliance

Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…

Crime & Legal
5
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children

Pennyslvania partnerships for children is a strong, effective, and trusted voice for improving the health, education, and well being of the children and youth in pennsylvania.

Youth Development
6
Children's Advocacy Centers of Pennsylvania

To promote and support the development, growth and continuation of the multidisciplinary approach and children's advocacy centers for the protection of pennsylvania's children.

Youth Development
7
The Arc of Pennsylvania

The arc of pennsylvania works to include all children and adults with intellectual and development disabilities in every community and provide advocacy and resources to these citizens and their families.

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8
Pennsylvania Family Council

Foster social welfare by educating citizens.

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9
Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools

The organization's mission is to advocate, communicate, engage in coalition building, and support quality to create an environment conducive to the growth of pennsylvania's charter movement, and provide services to its charter school…

Education
10
Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance

Pennsylvania family support alliance provides education, support, and training programs to make pennsylvania safe for children.

Crime & Legal
11
Pennsylvania Psychological Association

To promote human welfare within pennsylvania.

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12
The Parent-Infant Center

To support parenting by enabling young children to grow & learn in a safe, stimulating, loving environment. pic works to provide and increase access to high-quality early childhood education and school-age programs that give children…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Academy of Pediatrics Pennsylvania Chapter; the most unlike its peers is Annie E Casey Foundation Inc. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 19 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children First PA: $1,218,681 · Human ServicesChildren First PAALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $524,000 · Human ServicesALLIES FOR CHILDRENPENNSYLVANIA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $338,418 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATIONFIRST UP: $310,375 · Human ServicesFIRST UP+3 more: $147,433 · Human Services+3 morePennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children: $1,093,791 · EducationPennsylvania Associat…+1 more: $25,000 · EducationTRYING TOGETHER: $454,002 · OtherTRYING TOGETHERCouncil for a Strong America: $397,225 · OtherCouncil for a Strong…CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA INTERMEDIATE UNIT: $60,335 · OtherCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA …JOHNSON GROUP CONSULTING INC: $45,000 · OtherAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER: $40,050 · Other+2 more: $33,750 · OtherMaternity Care Coalition: $810,450 · HealthMaternity Care …UNITED WAY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $306,636 · PhilanthropyAnnie E Casey Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$2,538,907Education$1,118,791Other$1,030,362Health$810,450Philanthropy$331,636

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren First PA: $1,218,681 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetPennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children: $1,093,791 over 6y, 19% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $810,450 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $524,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetTRYING TOGETHER: $454,002 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetCouncil for a Strong America: $397,225 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $338,418 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFIRST UP: $310,375 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $306,636 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEAD START ASSOCIATION: $83,633 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY: $40,050 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER: $40,050 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAnnie E Casey Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF INTERMEDIATE UNITS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $23,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $23,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 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 William Penn Foun…Drexel UniversityPritzker Family Found…The Heinz EndowmentsUnited Way of Greater…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The William Penn FoundationPA23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Drexel University · Pritzker Family Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 19 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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