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Saunders House 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHARE FOOD PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $100,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LIBERTY LUTHERAN SERVICES | $90,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA | $90,000 |
| SIMPSON HOUSE INC | $90,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MONTGOMERY AND DELAWARE COUNTIES | $90,000 |
| SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC | $90,000 |
| LEADINGAGE PA | $60,000 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $60,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA | $60,000 |
| SENIORLAW CENTER | $60,000 |
| MONTCO ANTI-HUNGER NETWORK | $50,000 |
| CONNECTEDLY | $50,000 |
| RSVP VOLUNTEERS | $50,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $540k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Saunders House Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 17 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- SFSHARE FOOD PROGRAM2× · 2024–2025 · $170k · revenue +26%
- SSSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $160k · revenue +2%
- SHSIMPSON HOUSE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $160k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- SCSENIOR COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $70k
- EOELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTHone grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue -7%
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.
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
The mission of berks encore is to develop aging-confident individuals to enhance their ability to live well later in life.
Provide services to meet the needs of senior citizens of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
The Organization provides in-home medical services for older or disabled adults to meet health/security needs. Through its Medicare certified Home Health Agency, Presbyterian SeniorCare at Home provides skilled nursing, physical and…
Manna uses nutrition to improve health for people with serious illnesses who need nourishment to heal. by providing medically tailored meals and nutrition education, we empower people to improve their health and quality of life.
The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.
Skilled nursing facility.
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Non-profit regional network providing a continuum of living and care options for older adults. Presbyterian SeniorCare also acts as the management company for a network of non-profit healthcare entities.
HUD subsidized affordable housing with supportive services for low income seniors who meet the income eligibility requirements of the HUD 202 Section 8 program.SeniorCare Network manages this community and provides or assists in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Surrey Services for Seniors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels of Delaware County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
22 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. 22 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 SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS IN AGING ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MONTGOMERY AND D ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY LUTHERAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEADINGAGE PA ↗
- Who funds SENIORLAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CONNECTEDLY ↗
- Who funds MONTCO ANTI-HUNGER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds RSVP Volunteers ↗
- Who funds MURPHYS GIVING MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ARTZ PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The William Penn Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Td Charitable Foundation · Beatty Helen D Groome Uw · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wsfs Cares 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 Saunders House 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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