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Philadelphia, PA · Private foundation

Samuel S. Fels Fund

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$3.5MArts & Culture$2.7MHuman Services$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.2MPhilanthropy$840kYouth Development$778kEducation$619kOther$0
02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

Grant-size mix · FY2016–FY2024

FY16
92%
$1.6M
FY17
26%
73%
$1.8M
FY18
92%
$1.9M
FY20
100%
$2.5M
FY21
12%
68%
20%
$3.4M
FY22
10%
69%
21%
$2.3M
FY23
12%
74%
14%
$2.0M
FY24
69%
19%
$1.6M
Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2016, 92% of your dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2024 that was 19%. Each year’s bar is its own 100%, so the bands show the mix, not the total.

$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKWOOD LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$300,000
WINDCALL INSTITUTE$135,000
AMISTAD LAW PROJECT$30,000
ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED$30,000
BEYOND THE BARS INC$30,000
COALITION OF AFRICIAN COMMUNITIES -$30,000
JUNTOS$30,000
LIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY INC$30,000
NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT$30,000
NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELP$30,000
MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT$30,000
NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE$30,000
PHILADELPHIA ASSEMBLY INC$30,000
PHILLY BLACK WORKER PROJECT$30,000
SPIRAL Q PUPPET THEATER$30,000
02The need
04

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY16–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 23% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GENDER JUSTICE FUND: $50k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION AND: $40k → 10%Movement Alliance Project: $150k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - COMMUNITY SERVICES: $369k → 10%PHILADELPHIA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT: $100k → 19%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $75k → 19%MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $100k → 19%MAP: $75k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - SOCIAL RACIAL & ECON JUSTICE: $756k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - ARTS: $225k → 10%Thrive Village: $75k → 10%HIAS Pennsylvania: $75k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - SOCIAL RACIAL & ECON JUSTICE: $1.0M → 10%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $50k → 19%African Family Health Organization: $40k → 10%PA VOICE: $50k → 21%SEE STATEMENT A - IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES: $630k → 10%: $135k → 10%Philadelphia Community Bail Fund: $50k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA VOICE: $75k → 9%HIAS AND COUNCIL MIGRATION: $75k → 10%AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $40k → 24%SEE STATEMENT A - CHILD WELFARE: $157k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - SOCIAL RACIAL & ECON JUSTICE: $283k → 10%GENDER JUSTICE FUND: $50k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - EDUCATION: $240k → 10%Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition: $40k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - ARTS & CULTURE: $579k → 10%Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout: $40k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - ARTS: $126k → 10%Pennsylvania Voice: $100k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - FOCUSED POPULATION: $640k → 10%Philadelphia Foundation: $50k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - ARTS & CULTURE: $330k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - EDUCATION: $441k → 10%SEE STATEMENT A - IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES: $958k → 10%HIAS Pennsylvania: $40k → 10%Spiral Q Puppet Theater Inc: $50k → 10%: $300k → 27%PA IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP COAL: $40k → 10%Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia: $40k → 10%HIAS Pennsylvania: $40k → 10%African Family Health Organization: $40k → 10%HIAS AND COUNCIL MIGRATION SERVICE: $50k → 10%AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $40k → 24%Gender Justice Fund: $50k → 10%Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia: $75k → 10%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.

The hardship those neighborhoods carry, beyond income:

  • Food access:10 of 524 neighborhoods are USDA-designated food deserts(USDA, 2019)

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

The orgs you fund vs the ones you don’t

You skew toward the sturdier end of a fragile field.

The organisations you back are larger and somewhat healthier than comparable nonprofits nearby that you don't fund — but the edge is real, not dramatic: 75% of those you fund still carry a fragility flag, against 77% of the unfunded. In a sector where most run thin, you lean toward resilience rather than backing a financially secure elite.

The kind of organization you back

85% of the organizations you back live mainly on donations, against 52% of the comparable nonprofits nearby you don’t fund. The ones you pick show fewer of the warning signs below than the field you don’t fund.

What they work on

  • Arts & Culture29% vs 9%
  • Crime & Legal15% vs 2%
  • Youth Development10% vs 2%
  • Human Services15% vs 11%

The nearby nonprofits you don’t fund are concentrated in Education, Health.

How they hold up

  • Less than a month of cash4% vs 15%
you fund (48) you don’t (1931)· share of each group
You fund (48)You don’t (1931)
Median size (revenue)$1.2M$1.3M
Operating margin10%4%
Financially fragile75%77%

Comparison vs unfunded, size/cause-matched nonprofits in your county. Association, not proof — the funder enables, it does not solely cause.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.5M · 100 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

100 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

Of your 55 multi-year relationships, 32 repeat the same amount every year (22% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment. The rest vary year to year. Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; this is inferred from the payment pattern.

You also report $1.6Mapproved for future payment (Form 990-PF, Part XV) — grants already committed but not yet paid, a forward pledge the current-year ledger doesn’t show.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
145

Total granted

$8.5M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+31%

Still filing today

55%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $780k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $267k · revenue +10%

    Founded in 2007 as a faith-rooted immigrant justice organization, New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia has grown from a grassroots coalition into a recognized frontline advocate — expanding its programs, formalizing its nonprofit status, and deepening its community roots through the Promotores leadership model.

  • NS
    NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $240k · revenue +95%
  • PENNSYLVANIA VOICE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • BA
    BREAD AND ROSES COMMUNITY FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $235k
  • M
    MAP
    one grant, 2023 · $201k
  • HP
    HIAS Pennsylvania
    one grant, 2021 · $155k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

Activities, outputs, outcomes

Most can say what their work is for. Few can show it changed. Click an area to step through it.

they say it reaches here……few show it gets hereNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTERCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICELa Puerta Abierta IncABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PAWoori CenterJuntosWELCOMING CENTER FOR NEWHuman Services0/8 flowerTaller Puertorriqueno IncPhiladelphia Folklore ProjectAsian Arts InitiativeKYL DANCERS INCBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INCBlack Pearl Chamber OrchestraIndigenous Peoples' Day Philly IncAL-BUSTAN SEEDS CULTUREArts & Culture0/8 flowerPHILADELPHIA LAWYERS FOR SOCIALCOLLECTIVE CLIMBPUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTERSeniorLAW CenterYouth Sentencing & Reentry ProjectAmistad Law ProjectBeyond the BarsCrime & Legal2/7 flowerNATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCENew Sanctuary Movement of PhiladelphiaPennsylvania VoiceCivil Rights0/3 flowerAsian Americans UnitedGirls Rock PhillyFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERSYouth United for ChangeYOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HYouth Development1/5 flower

Of 31 organizations, 3 show a change. The rest report what they did, or only what they hope it’s for.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

Read from 31 of the 38 organizations you fund across these 5 areas— those you fund most heavily — in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.

case studies

Two relationships, up close

One you funded repeatedly and one you funded once, each traced through its own filings and the public record.

Gender Justice Fund

Conviction

Sustained conviction through a turbulent transition

Samuel S Fels Fund backed Gender Justice Fund across three consecutive years (2021–2023), committing $150,000 at a moment when that support represented as much as 10% of GJF's operating budget — meaningful capital for an organization that had just rebranded from the New Century Guild to sharpen its focus on gender equity in Philadelphia. Revenue has since contracted significantly, yet GJF's grantmaking capacity has held: in 2024 the organization launched a new strategic framework and awarded a record $591,000 to 40 grantees, with 85% of dollars reaching groups led by women, trans, or gender nonconforming individuals. Alongside Fels Fund's sustained commitment, GJF has continued to fund reproductive rights, economic justice, and transgender and non-binary communities across its portfolio.

4× · 2021–2024
Funded
$170k
You committed
10%
Peak share of budget
-76%
Their revenue since

NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA

Funded once

Early bet on a movement now compounding

Fels Fund made a single, catalytic investment of $128,500 in New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia in 2021 — equal to nearly a quarter of NSM's budget at the time — arriving as the organization was deepening its Promotores program and expanding its network of congregational partners. In the years since, NSM's revenue has grown at a 13% compound annual rate and net assets have quadrupled, while the organization has scaled to 30 member congregations, sustained a robust legal accompaniment program for immigrant families, and graduated community members into board and staff leadership roles. The one-time grant now reads as an early vote of confidence in an organization that has steadily built both its financial base and its civic reach.

4× · 2021–2024
Funded
$267k
You committed
24%
Peak share of budget
+10%
Their revenue since

Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source, not a return on these grants: we date what happened after a grant, and do not claim the grant caused it.

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
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
3
Build Philly Now

Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.

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4
Pennsylvania United

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

Civil Rights
5
Emprendedores Inc

Education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
7
Together for West Philadelphia

Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.

Unclassified
8
Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

—
9
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
10
Equity Project

The Equity Project is committed to advancing racial equity through radical access. We believe every community has the right to transformative experiences creative spaces and the resources needed to reach our full potential. We build the…

—
11
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
12
Lead Pa

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resolve Philadelphia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leeway Foundation. 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 backsteadySenior Affordable HousingFamily Philanthropic Founda…Early Childhood Care CentersTemple University Health Sy…Food Access & DistributionProfessional Performing ArtsChestnut Hill Neighborhood …Community Behavioral Health…Jewish Community Organizati…Pediatric Medical Research …Health System Network
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 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%9%<5yr15%15%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%6%<5yr15%12%5–10yr18%30%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/86
the rest of the field
16%
1,552/9,510

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.

05the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 263 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/85
Grantees still filing
48/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+149 more — $8,461,500 · Other+149 moreMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — $706,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALL…PHILADELPHIA ASSEMBLY INC — $96,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA…PHILADELPHIA FOLKLORE PROJECT — $86,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA…AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE — $73,000 · Arts & CultureKULU MELE AFRICAN DANCE AND DRUM ENSEMBLE — $61,500 · Arts & CultureAsian Arts Initiative — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureJOURNEY ARTS — $54,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $233,500 · Arts & Culture+7 moreNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $240,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALI…JUNTOS — $171,000 · Human ServicesJUNTOSGender Justice Fund — $170,000 · Human ServicesGender Ju…SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST…LA PUERTA ABIERTA INC — $104,000 · Human ServicesLA PUERTA…ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA — $75,000 · Human ServicesABORTION …Esperanza Immigration Legal Services — $69,000 · Human ServicesEsperanza…WELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS — $60,000 · Human ServicesWOORI CENTER — $51,000 · Human ServicesHIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc — $50,000 · Human Services+1 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA — $266,500 · Civil RightsPENNSYLVANIA VOICE — $210,000 · Civil RightsAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION — $200,000 · Civil RightsWindcall Institute — $135,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $108,000 · Civil RightsPhilly Black Worker Project — $40,000 · Civil RightsYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC — $140,000 · Crime & LegalAMISTAD LAW PROJECT — $130,000 · Crime & LegalBEYOND THE BARS INC — $93,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC — $90,000 · Crime & LegalCOLLECTIVE CLIMB — $48,000 · Crime & LegalSENIORLAW CENTER — $40,000 · Crime & LegalABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER — $35,000 · Crime & LegalThe Phillips Black Inc A Nonprofit Interest Law Pr — $33,000 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHIA LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL EQUITY — $30,000 · Crime & LegalTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER — $25,000 · Crime & LegalRockwood Leadership Institute — $300,000 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $66,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF — $28,000 · PhilanthropyASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $143,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT — $108,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ROCK PHILLY — $89,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE — $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$8,461,500Arts & Culture$1,480,500Human Services$1,125,000Civil Rights$959,500Crime & Legal$664,000Philanthropy$444,000Youth Development$390,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — $706,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetRockwood Leadership Institute — $300,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA — $266,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $240,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA VOICE — $210,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION — $200,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetJUNTOS — $171,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetGender Justice Fund — $170,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetCEIBA INC — $148,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT — $146,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $143,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC — $140,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetWindcall Institute — $135,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetAMISTAD LAW PROJECT — $130,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetPUENTES DE SALUD — $115,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $108,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT — $108,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetLA PUERTA ABIERTA INC — $104,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom — $96,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ASSEMBLY INC — $96,000 over 3y, 93% of budgetBLACK MEN HEAL — $94,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetBEYOND THE BARS INC — $93,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC — $90,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGIRLS ROCK PHILLY — $89,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FOLKLORE PROJECT — $86,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA — $75,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA — $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE — $73,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetEsperanza Immigration Legal Services — $69,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $66,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKULU MELE AFRICAN DANCE AND DRUM ENSEMBLE — $61,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetWEREIGN INC — $61,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE — $61,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetRESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS — $60,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAsian Arts Initiative — $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFirst Step Staffing Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINDOCHINESE-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetXIENTE — $58,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJOURNEY ARTS — $54,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetWOORI CENTER — $51,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetHIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Rockwood Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA VOICE ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNTOS ↗
  • Who funds Gender Justice Fund ↗
  • Who funds Spiral Q Puppet Theater Inc ↗
  • Who funds CEIBA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Windcall Institute ↗
  • Who funds AMISTAD LAW PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds PUENTES DE SALUD ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT ↗
  • Who funds LA PUERTA ABIERTA INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Coalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ASSEMBLY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK MEN HEAL ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND THE BARS INC ↗
12 internal · 8 shared anchors

Your portfolio is already a network

Worked together in fall 2020 as allies to advocate for contract negotiations between the City of Philadelphia and the Fraternal Order of Police and against anti-blackness. It’s one of 12 direct ties among 50 of your grantees, who also cluster around 8 shared regional anchors.

Ties are read from news and organization websites, so they’re directional, not exhaustive; each links to its source.

50
Grantees connected
12
Grantee↔grantee ties
8
Shared anchors (2+ grantees)
214
External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations — shared anchors pull toward the center

41 shown · 16 ties
Education Law Center - PA — $75k granted · 4 linksTaller Puertorriqueno Inc — $25k granted · 7 linksPUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER — $25k granted · 9 linksNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER — $240k granted · 9 linksNATIONALITIES SERVICE CEN…ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA — $25k granted · 3 linksCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PH — $65k granted · 7 linksAmistad Law Project — $90k granted · 14 linksPennsylvania Voice — $175k granted · 3 linksPennsylvania VoiceSeniorLAW Center — $40k granted · 5 linksNATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE — $68k granted · 3 linksPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS — $40k granted · 8 linksPHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK — $51k granted · 4 linksWoori Center — $51k granted · 3 linksGirls Rock Philly — $90k granted · 10 linksCeiba Inc — $148k granted · 7 linksCeiba IncBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC — $20k granted · 3 linksOllin Yoliztli Calmecac — $18k granted · 3 linksJuntos — $131k granted · 8 linksJuntosYouth Sentencing & Reentry Project — $105k granted · 3 linksMighty Writers — $20k granted · 5 linksUrbEd Inc — $26k granted · 4 linksPhiladelphia Assembly — $28k granted · 3 linksBlack Pearl Chamber Orchestra — $32k granted · 6 linksAsian Americans United — $103k granted · 3 linksNew Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia — $129k granted · 6 linksAL-BUSTAN SEEDS CULTURE — $73k granted · 10 linksWELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW — $95k granted · 3 linksPhiladelphia Foundation — $50k granted · 5 linksCOLLECTIVE CLIMB — $28k granted · 3 linksKYL DANCERS INC — $18k granted · 4 linksAsian Arts Initiative — $55k granted · 8 linksIndigenous Peoples' Day Philly Inc — $36k granted · 3 linksPHILADELPHIA LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL — $45k granted · 3 linksPHILADELPHIA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT — $100k granted · 3 linksFIRST STEP STAFFING INC — $60k granted · 4 linksMovement Alliance Project — $406k granted · 9 linksMovement Alliance ProjectTwelve Gates Arts — $36k granted · 11 linksGender Justice Fund — $150k granted · 3 linksGender Justice FundAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN — $25k granted · 9 linksFree Library of Philadelphia — named by 3 granteesFree Library of Philadelp…Alliance for a Just Philadelphia — named by 3 granteesAlliance for a Just Phila…
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Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations — or start with the strongest ties below.

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Anchors several grantees share

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Joint program 125Coalition 53Affiliation 27Funding 9Referral network 6Shared facility 4Fiscal sponsorship 1Collaboration 1Merger / affiliation 1

Partnerships are LLM-extracted from news and organisation websites, not from tax filings — directional, not exhaustive. Each edge links to its source; corroborated edges were named independently by both organisations.

Cause groups: Arts & Culture, Civil Rights, Community Improvement, Crime & Legal, Education, Employment, Environment, Housing & Shelter, Human Services, Philanthropy, Unclassified, Youth Development

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.

The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Bread and Roses Commu…Independence Public M…The Barra Foundation …The Patricia Kind Fam…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Independence Foundati…The Alfred and Mary D…Scattergood Behaviora…The Philadelphia Cult…The Allen Hilles Fund
The William Penn FoundationPA110.7× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Allen Hilles Fund

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 Samuel S. Fels Fund 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.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
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    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

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    How do I get to Samuel S. Fels Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Samuel S. Fels Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 263 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024 (period ending 2024-12-31), released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object 202543219349107959 · view filing · www.samfels.org

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