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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Human Services$660kFood & Nutrition$435kHealth$250kHousing & Shelter$240kPhilanthropy$150kCommunity Improvement$110kCrime & Legal$60k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILABUNDANCE$100,000
PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$100,000
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA$90,000
SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC$90,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MONTGOMERY AND DELAWARE COUNTIES$90,000
SIMPSON HOUSE INC$90,000
LIBERTY LUTHERAN SERVICES$90,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA$60,000
SENIORLAW CENTER$60,000
LEADINGAGE PA$60,000
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$60,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY$50,000
CONNECTEDLY$50,000
MURPHY'S GIVING MARKET$50,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $90k → 6%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION & NARBERTH: $70k → 10%SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $70k → 6%LIBERTY LUTHERAN SERVICES: $90k → 7%OPTIONS IN AGING DBA NEW HORIZONS SENIOR CENTER: $70k → 7%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $60k → 10%OPTIONS IN AGING DBA NEW HORIZONS SENIOR CENTER: $40k → 7%CONNECTEDLY: $50k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Saunders House Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 95%.

Saunders House Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$600k · 4 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$600k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
-7%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SF
    SHARE FOOD PROGRAM
    2× · 2024–2025 · $170k · revenue +26%
  • SS
    SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $160k · revenue +2%
  • SH
    SIMPSON HOUSE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $160k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • EO
    ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue -7%
  • SC
    SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $70k
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 Health Partnership
Health
2
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

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…

Health
3
Berks Encore Inc

The mission of berks encore is to develop aging-confident individuals to enhance their ability to live well later in life.

Human Services
4
Jefferson County Area Agency on Aging

Provide services to meet the needs of senior citizens of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

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5
Highlands Hospital

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…

Health
6
Presbyterian SeniorCare at Home Inc

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…

Health
7
Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance

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.

Food & Nutrition
8
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium

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.

Health
9
The Green Home

Skilled nursing facility.

—
10
Pocono Health System

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.

—
11
Presbyterian SeniorCare

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.

Human Services
12
McDonald Presbyterian Senior Housing in

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Surrey Services for Seniors Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 25 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
3/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INCOPTIONS IN AGING: $110,000 · Human ServicesOPTIONS IN AGINGLIBERTY LUTHERAN SERVICES: $90,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY LUTHERAN SERVICESELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $70,000 · Human ServicesELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NAR…SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INCCONNECTEDLY: $50,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTEDLYSENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $70,000 · OtherSENIOR COMMUNITY CEN…REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA: $60,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER …MURPHYS GIVING MARKET INC: $50,000 · OtherMURPHYS GIVING MARKE…ELDERNET: $50,000 · OtherELDERNETRSVP Volunteers: $50,000 · OtherRSVP VolunteersMEALS ON WHEELS OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $40,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF D…MEDIA FOOD BANK FIRST CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherMEDIA FOOD BANK FIRS…SHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $170,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD PROGRAMPhilabundance: $100,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceMONTCO ANTI-HUNGER NETWORK: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMONTCO ANTI-HUNGER …SIMPSON HOUSE INC: $160,000 · HealthSIMPSON HOUSE INCFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $50,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR DE…PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $50,000 · HealthPENNSYLVANIA HOSP…ARTZ PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 · HealthARTZ PHILADELPHIAHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MONTGOMERY AND D: $90,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FO…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $90,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FO…THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyLEADINGAGE PA: $60,000 · Community ImprovementSENIORLAW CENTER: $60,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$540,000Other$345,000Food & Nutrition$320,000Health$300,000Housing & Shelter$180,000Philanthropy$100,000Community Improvement$60,000Crime & Legal$60,000

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 budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $170,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $160,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSE INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOPTIONS IN AGING: $110,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetPhilabundance: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY LUTHERAN SERVICES: $90,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MONTGOMERY AND D: $90,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $70,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER: $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA: $60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMURPHYS GIVING MARKET INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRSVP Volunteers: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTZ PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF DELAWARE COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 32% 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.

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…United Way of Greater…The Gordon Charter Fo…Connelly FoundationThe Leo and Peggy Pie…W W Smith Charitable …The William Penn Foun…The Pew Charitable Tr…Td Charitable Foundat…Beatty Helen D Groome…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Wsfs Cares Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Saunders House Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saunders House Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Saunders House Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Saunders House 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 25 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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