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Samuel Tabas Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$181k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $181k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION BOARD$180,974
HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION$8,500
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$7,500
PROJECT HOPE$6,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PA$5,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION$5,000
FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA$5,000
MAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM$4,000
PHILABUNDANCE$4,000
PHILADELPHIA CHILDRENS ALLIANCE$4,000
WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY$3,000
GOLDEN SLIPPER CLUB$3,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA: $500 → 7%YMCA: $500 → 7%YMCA: $500 → 7%YMCA: $500 → 7%YMCA: $500 → 7%YMCA: $500 → 7%YMCA: $500 → 7%YMCA: $500 → 7%YMCA: $500 → 7%CENTER IN THE PARK: $1k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%GOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS: $2k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%GOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS: $2k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 22%GOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS: $2k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
AL
GA
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$744k · 51 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
11

Total granted

$744k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+132%

Still filing today

49%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • HP
    HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +94%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +5%
  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • BP
    BLOSSOM PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -98%
  • A
    ACHIEVEABILITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +132%
  • H
    HEIGHTS
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
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
2
Women's Law Project

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…

Civil Rights
3
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
4
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

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

Education
5
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
6
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
7
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
8
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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9
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
10
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Point Park University

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…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Police Athletic League of Philadelphia; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION BOARD: $180,974 · OtherAGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION BOARDPROJECT HOPE: $50,500 · OtherPROJECT HOPEFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $48,000 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM: $44,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUMHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · Other+41 more: $291,200 · Other+41 moreHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $66,000 · EducationHOPE PARTNERSHI…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $51,000 · EducationTemple Universi…Education Law Center - PA: $7,000 · EducationEducation Law C…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $32,500 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $14,000 · Crime & LegalJUVENILE LAW CENTER: $7,000 · Crime & LegalTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $6,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $15,000 · InternationalWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 · InternationalPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentPhilabundance: $24,000 · Food & NutritionINGLIS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSES: $4,500 · Human ServicesCENTER IN THE PARK: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$668,174Education$129,000Crime & Legal$60,500International$32,000Youth Development$27,000Food & Nutrition$24,000Human Services$23,500

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 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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $15,000 over 3y, 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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 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 National Liberty Museum ↗
  • Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS ↗

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 Foun…The William Penn Foun…United Way of Greater…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Daniel M Tabas Family…The Patricia Kind Fam…Claneil Foundation IncThe William M King Fo…The Gordon Charter Fo…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Independence Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Samuel Tabas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel Tabas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

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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.

    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 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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