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· Private foundation

Special Needs Advocacy

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Crime & Legal$7kHealth$5kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$3kPhilanthropy$3kHousing & Shelter$2kArts & Culture$1kCommunity Improvement$750Other$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,625
DTC Care$1,408
Individual grant recipient$1,370
St Judes Childrens Hospital$1,000
Individual grant recipient$775
Alliance for Empowerment$750
Life Center of Delaware County$500
AFI$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Broadway Community Food Bank$500
PACAN$500
Mothers Home$500
Mural Arts Philadelphia$500
WXPN$480
Individual grant recipient$445
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Operation Warm: $250 → 6%Alliance for Empowerment: $750 → 15%Mothers Home: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8k · 4 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$8k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+74%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • SJ
    St Judes Childrens Hospital
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k
  • Philabundance
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue -5%
  • SC
    Support Center for Child Advocates
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k
  • AS
    AUTISM SPEAKS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
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
Accessmatters

Accessmatters' mission is to protect, expand, and enhance access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. accessmatters fulfills its mission by providing services and information directly to people, by…

Health
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Parent Education and Advocacy Leadership Center

The mission of the peal center is to educate and empower families to ensure that children, youth and young adults with disabilities and special health care needs lead rich, active lives as full members of their schools and communities.

Education
6
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
7
Vision for Equality Inc

Vision for equality works each day to serve, support and empower individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families bringing to them the information and tools they need to create the life of meaning they want and to successfully…

Health
8
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
9
Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh

The mission of women's center & shelter of greater pittsburgh is to strengthen our ability to meet the individual and evolving needs of those affected by domestic violence by investing in the growth of our people, deepening community…

Human Services
10
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter
11
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Support Center for Child Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Schooner Youth Center 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Judes Childrens Hospital — $3,000 · OtherSt Judes Childrens HospitalIndividual grant recipient — $2,625 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $1,922 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDTC Care — $1,408 · OtherDTC CareIndividual grant recipient — $1,370 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $1,153 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $1,038 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $775 · Other+13 more — $5,045 · Other+13 morePhilabundance — $2,225 · Food & NutritionPhilabund…Support Center for Child Advocates — $1,500 · Crime & LegalEQUAL ACCESS LEGAL SERVICES INC — $250 · Crime & LegalALLIANCE FOR EMPOWERMENT INC — $750 · Human ServicesMOTHERS' HOME — $500 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc — $250 · Human ServicesAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $350 · HealthTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $480 · EducationSPOTLIGHT PA — $250 · EducationPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$18,336Food & Nutrition$2,225Crime & Legal$1,750Human Services$1,500Health$850Education$730Arts & Culture$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPhilabundance — $2,225 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates — $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR EMPOWERMENT INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS' HOME — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOONER YOUTH CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOTLIGHT PA — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL ACCESS LEGAL SERVICES INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Philabundance
  • Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR EMPOWERMENT INC
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC
  • Who funds MOTHERS' HOME
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds SCHOONER YOUTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds Operation Warm Inc
  • Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM INC
  • Who funds SPOTLIGHT PA
  • Who funds EQUAL ACCESS LEGAL SERVICES 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Special Needs Advocacy 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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