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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.

$285k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
45
Grants FY2025
42
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$180,974
Organizations funded a year
34 to 45
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Samuel Tabas Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
Crime & LegalCivil RightsEnvironmentInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving44$284k5%
FY202442$96k5%
FY202345$96k11%
FY202242$97k14%
FY202140$89k3%
FY202036$70k11%
FY201937$76k16%
FY201834$70k0%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$192kEducation$157kArts & Culture$110kHuman Services$91kCrime & Legal$47kFood & Nutrition$45kRecreation & Sports$40kCivil Rights$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hope Partnership for Education$66,00090%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$51,00090%
Project Hope$50,5009n/a
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation$48,00090%
Philadelphia Children's Alliance$32,50090%
Philabundance$24,00090%
Woodstock Area Jewish Community Inc$22,0009n/a
Steppingstone Scholars Inc$22,00060%
Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia$21,00080%
Anti-Defamation League$20,50070%
Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($444k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Samuel Tabas Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHope Partnership for Education: $66,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $51,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFree Library of Philadelphia Foundation: $48,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Children's Alliance: $32,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $24,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSteppingstone Scholars Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $21,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInglis Foundation: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Arava the Institute Ltd: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Pittsburgh: $10,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNational Liberty Museum: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSmith Memorial Playground & Playhouse Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJuvenile Law Center: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Parks Alliance Inc: $7,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGolden Slipper Center for Seniors Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNeighborhood Bike Works: $6,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Public Interest Law Center: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of the Roses: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Veterans Museum: $2,700 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAchieveability: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMain Line Art Center: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter in the Park: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMission Kids Child Advocacy Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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 Philadelphia FoundationPA32.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Samuel Tabas Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Samuel Tabas Family Foundation

How much does Samuel Tabas Family Foundation give?
Samuel Tabas Family Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $285,274 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Samuel Tabas Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Education (16%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Samuel Tabas Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hope Partnership for Education ($66k), Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($51k), Project Hope ($51k).
Does Samuel Tabas Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Samuel Tabas Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Samuel Tabas Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
Where is Samuel Tabas Family Foundation based?
Samuel Tabas Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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