· Private foundation
Samuel Tabas Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION BOARD | $180,974 |
| HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION | $8,500 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $6,000 |
| FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA | $5,000 |
| MAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PA | $5,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA CHILDRENS ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $4,000 |
| WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY | $3,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| GOLDEN SLIPPER CLUB | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
51 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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
- HPHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +94%
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +5%
- PCPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- BPBLOSSOM PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -98%
- AACHIEVEABILITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +132%
- MKMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +365%
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.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
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…
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
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.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
Mural arts - the city of philadelphia mural arts program unites artists and communities through a collaborative process rooted in the traditions of mural making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Police Athletic League of Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 66 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 HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds INGLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds National Liberty Museum ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS ↗
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 · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · The William M King Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Independence 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 Samuel Tabas Family Foundation 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.
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