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Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution

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.

$253k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$130,330
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$31M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$253k50%
FY20234$316k75%
FY202211$370k91%
FY202111$447k73%
FY202010$294k100%
FY20196$256k67%
FY20185$446k80%
FY20171$1kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MReligion$703kRecreation & Sports$405kHuman Services$35kCommunity Improvement$3kEducation$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kPublic Benefit$600

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($892k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMuseum of the American Revolution: $234,454 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetWashington Memorial Heritage: $200,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetPhila Society for the Preservation of Landmarks: $200,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetThe Friends of Valley Forge Valley Forge Park Alliance: $100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetFriends of Sulgrave Manor: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCarpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Pennsylvania Society: $30,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetIndependence Seaport Museum: $7,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Athenaeum of Philadelphia: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrandywine Battlefield Park Associates: $3,750 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Society of the Children of the American Revolution: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPenn Valley Women's Club: $600 over 1y, 13% of budgetHistorical Society of Pennsylvania: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union: $129 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Connelly FoundationPA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connelly Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Donors Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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Find your warmest path to Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution 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.

About Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution

How much does Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution give?
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution reported 4 grants totaling $252,830 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Religion (30%), Recreation & Sports (17%).
Who are Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Christ Church ($600k), Museum of the American Revolution ($234k), Washington Memorial Heritage ($200k).
Does Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connelly Foundation, Quaker City Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc.
Where is Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution based?
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution is based in PA.

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 42 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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