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Pennsylvania Voice

PENNSYLVANIA VOICE works toward increasing overall participation in our democracy through increased education and mobilization.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$398k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2018–2024.

Public Benefit$11MCivil Rights$851kHuman Services$604kEnvironment$418kYouth Development$202kCrime & Legal$159kCommunity Improvement$22k
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+2 grants · $702k
$75,178
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POWER INTERFAITH$398,031
ONEPA ACTIVISTS UNITED$303,496
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAM RELATIONS RENNSYLVANIA$225,379
MAKE THE ROAD STATES$201,228
1 VOTE COUNTS INC$185,022
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER$175,556
CASA DE MARYLAND$146,267
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY$137,247
MOTHER'S OF INCARCERATED SONS$124,859
AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC$121,678
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION$110,118
1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY$108,742
NEW VOICES FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE$100,998
CASA DE HARMONY$93,337
FREE MIGRATION PROJECT$86,235
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 (FY18–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOORI CENTER: $45k → 7%CASA SAN JOSE: $23k → 11%YOUTH FOR CHANGE: $5k → 18%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $122k → 17%WOORI CENTER: $36k → 7%CASA SAN JOSE: $14k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $6k → 17%CASA SAN JOSE: $10k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $201k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $197k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $150k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $74k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $70k → 20%PROJECT HOME: $216k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $114k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $45k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $20k → 22%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAM RELATIONS RENNSYLVANIA: $225k → 22%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAM RELATIONS RENNSYLVANIA: $130k → 22%CAIR: $68k → 22%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAM RELATIONS RENNSYLVANIA: $40k → 22%CAIR: $19k → 22%SEAMAAC: $139k → 22%SEAMAAC: $90k → 22%SEAMAAC: $57k → 22%SEAMAAC: $23k → 22%SEAMAAC: $5k → 22%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
FL

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 32 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
17

Total granted

$11M
$996k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+5%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $567k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +11%
  • CASA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $951k · revenue +244%
  • PI
    POWER INTERFAITH INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $926k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • MT
    Make the Road New York
    one grant, 2020 · $333k · revenue -21%
  • CI
    CAIR-FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $101k · revenue +101%
  • AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE
    one grant, 2022 · $96k · revenue -33%

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
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

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

Employment
2
Community Justice Project

To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
3
Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the

Community Improvement
4
Lead Pa

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

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5
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
6
New Pennsylvania Project

The New Pennsylvania Project (NPP) is a voting rights organization with a

Civil Rights
7
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
8
Pa Alliance Action

The PA Alliance Action seeks to advocate at the state level for democracy reform through grassroots activities and support of like-minded organizations on behalf of and in support of all Pennsylvanians, in particular historically…

Civil Rights
9
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
10
Philadelphia Equal Justice Center Inc

At the equal justice center, our mission is to build a more accessible and equitable civil legal system. we strive to create pathways to just outcomes and to remove barriers for all philadelphians, by empowering every member of the…

Crime & Legal
11
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodpower Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is 1 Vote Counts. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Development ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Pregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%26%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
3/58
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,507

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.

04the grantee network

54 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 58 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
32/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $3,146,363 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY …+2 more — $198,113 · Public Benefit+2 moreMake The Road States Inc — $692,123 · Human ServicesMake The Road Stat…CAIR-PENNSYLVANIA — $482,153 · Human ServicesCAIR-PENNSYLVANIAPROJECT HOME — $395,695 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMESOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC — $314,284 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN MU…AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC — $127,200 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITIE…WOORI CENTER — $81,076 · Human Services+2 more — $52,044 · Human ServicesCASA INC — $950,987 · OtherCASA INCURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $470,867 · OtherURBAN AFFAIRS COALITIONMOTHERS OF INCARCERATED SONS — $298,475 · OtherMOTHERS OF INCARCERATED SONSPenn Immigration & Citizenship Coalition — $134,489 · OtherGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $260,730 · OtherGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INCCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE — $142,533 · Other1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC — $193,901 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $201,698 · OtherASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INCMEN OF THE SOUTHEAST LEAGUE FIELD INC — $243,260 · OtherMEN OF THE SOUTHEAST LEAGUE FIEL…+15 more — $829,617 · Other+15 moreNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC — $396,207 · Civil RightsNEW VOICES PI…ONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED — $303,496 · Civil RightsONE PENNSYLVA…NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $151,213 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KORE…New PA Project Education Fund — $108,750 · Civil RightsNew PA Projec…CAIR-FOUNDATION INC — $100,590 · Civil RightsCAIR-FOUNDATI…BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY …ROCK THE VOTE ACTION FUND — $84,000 · Civil RightsROCK THE VOTE…FOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND — $78,840 · Civil RightsFair Elections Center — $72,250 · Civil Rights+5 more — $111,472 · Civil Rights+5 morePOWER INTERFAITH INC — $925,676 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTER…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $295,103 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT ST…+4 more — $52,000 · Community Improvement1 VOTE COUNTS — $570,195 · EducationMake the Road New York — $333,283 · Crime & LegalAMISTAD LAW PROJECT — $158,750 · Crime & Legal
Public Benefit$3,344,476Human Services$2,144,575Other$3,726,557Civil Rights$1,506,818Community Improvement$1,272,779Education$570,195Crime & Legal$492,033

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 budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $3,146,363 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetCASA INC — $950,987 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $925,676 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetMake The Road States Inc — $692,123 over 5y, 2.0% of budget1 VOTE COUNTS — $570,195 over 5y, 57% of budgetCAIR-PENNSYLVANIA — $482,153 over 3y, 21% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $470,867 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC — $396,207 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $395,695 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMake the Road New York — $333,283 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC — $314,284 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetONE PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS UNITED — $303,496 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $295,103 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $260,730 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMEN OF THE SOUTHEAST LEAGUE FIELD INC — $243,260 over 3y, 74% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $201,698 over 7y, 6.3% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC — $193,901 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetAMISTAD LAW PROJECT — $158,750 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $151,213 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE — $142,533 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC — $127,200 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNew PA Project Education Fund — $108,750 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc — $108,113 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC — $100,590 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE — $95,927 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFREE MIGRATION PROJECT — $86,235 over 1y, 17% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION — $82,100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOORI CENTER — $81,076 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetBHUTANESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH — $79,323 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND — $78,840 over 1y, 20% of budgetYOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE — $76,984 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFair Elections Center — $72,250 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE — $47,044 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK — $41,300 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $39,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FORBES FUNDS — $27,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND — $22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCEIBA INC — $22,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $19,435 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania United — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH INTERFAITH IMPACT NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

PA Alliance FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The William Penn Foun…The Heinz EndowmentsNEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundSamuel S Fels FundScattergood Behaviora…Bread and Roses Commu…The Pittsburgh Founda…
PA Alliance FoundationPA47.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: PA Alliance Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Samuel S Fels Fund · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Bread and Roses Community 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 organization Pennsylvania Voice 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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

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