· Private foundation
Ruth Rabstein Pellettieri Char Fdn
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HONEST REPORTING | $15,000 |
| 1616 LATIMER FUND | $3,000 |
| WHYY | $1,000 |
| ABORTION LIBERATION FUND | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WORKERS OF TRUTH CEMETARY | $500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $500 |
| ACLU IMPACT SOCIETY | $500 |
| ANTIOCH COLLEGE | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
WHYY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +20%
ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA5× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +755%- TMTHE MIQUON SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -51%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +27%- GSGREENFIELD SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
The aclu is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending and protecting our constitutional and civil rights and personal freedoms.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.
As noted in its articles of incorporation, the mission of the aclu is "to maintain and advance civil liberties, including, without limitation, the freedoms of association, press, religion and speech, and the rights to the franchise, to due…
The aclf-pa was formed for the purpose of defending the individual rights guaranteed by the united states and pennsylvania constitutions through litigation, advocacy and public education.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is 1616 Latimer Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds THE MIQUON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1616 LATIMER FUND ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Youthchoirs Inc ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ruth Rabstein Pellettieri Char Fdn 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.
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.