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Pine Street Foundation

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.

$271k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$345kHealth$214kHuman Services$170kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kInternational$130kPhilanthropy$81kReligion$80kFood & Nutrition$74kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$5,155
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$75,000
MATERNITY CARE COALITION$42,500
JEWISH FEDERATION$25,000
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION$25,000
PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE (FIDF)$20,000
BEIT HALOCHEM USAFIDV$15,000
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM$8,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL$5,155
JFCS$5,025
ENTREPRENEUR WORKS$5,000
FREE LIBRARY PHILADELPHIA$5,000
PHILABUNDANCE$5,000
JEVS HUMAN SERVICES$5,000
NARBERTH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JFCS: $5k → 7%JFCS: $5k → 7%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 20 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
15

Total granted

$1.2M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+53%

Still filing today

65%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionInternationalHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • MC
    Maternity Care Coalition
    6× · 2019–2024 · $214k · revenue +95%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +6%
  • Philabundance
    5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS
    one grant, 2022 · $26k
  • JI
    JEWS IN ALL HUES
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -11%
  • RL
    ROSENBACH LIBRARY & MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
2
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
3
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
4
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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5
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
6
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
7
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
8
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
9
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation

The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…

Community Improvement
10
Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance

Gpca's mission is to break the cycle of generational proverty by ensuring equitable distribution of the resources for vulnerable children, families, and communities. our vision is to be philadelphia's catalyst for community empowerment and…

Human Services
11
Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia

In order to promote social harmony and inter-religious understanding, Interfaith Philadelphia equips individuals and communities for interfaith engagement, builds collaborative relationships, and stands in solidarity with our diverse…

Religion
12
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Narberth Community Food Bank. 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

24 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. 24 of the 38 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $228,150 · OtherTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLEFRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE (FIDF): $90,465 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE (FIDF)JEWISH FEDERATION: $81,016 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $46,200 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONJEVS HUMAN SERVICES: $35,000 · OtherJEVS HUMAN SERVICESIndividual grant recipient: $29,800 · OtherBEIT HALOCHEM USAFIDV: $26,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS: $26,000 · Other+17 more: $75,944 · Other+17 moreMaternity Care Coalition: $214,483 · HealthMaternity Care Coa…PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHIA…UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $125,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SER…Elevate 215: $90,000 · Education+4 more: $4,001 · EducationPhilabundance: $39,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $29,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $3,706 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $36,000 · Philanthropy
Other$638,575Health$214,483Crime & Legal$140,000Public Benefit$125,000Education$94,001Food & Nutrition$73,706Philanthropy$36,000

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 budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $214,483 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetElevate 215: $90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $46,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $39,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEVS HUMAN SERVICES: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENTREPRENEUR WORKS FUND: $14,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $3,706 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $2,160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $1,333 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $408 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Elevate 215 ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEUR WORKS FUND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds JEWS IN ALL HUES ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
  • Who funds Narberth Community Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗

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 FoundationPA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Lenfest Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Pine Street Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pine Street Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    7report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pine Street Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pine Street Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 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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