Pennsylvania · 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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,625
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Special Needs Advocacy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $14k | 87% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $6k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $4k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philabundance | $2,225 | 4 | 0% |
| Support Center for Child Advocates | $1,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alliance for Empowerment Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Autism Speaks Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mothers' Home | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $350 | 1 | 0% |
| Schooner Youth Center Inc | $250 | 1 | 1% |
| Operation Warm Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Orphans of the Storm Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philabundance | $2,225 | 4 | 0% |
| Support Center for Child Advocates | $1,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alliance for Empowerment Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Autism Speaks Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mothers' Home | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $350 | 1 | 0% |
| Schooner Youth Center Inc | $250 | 1 | 1% |
| Operation Warm Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Orphans of the Storm Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Spotlight Pa | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Access Legal Services Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Special Needs Advocacy supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Special Needs Advocacy
- How much does Special Needs Advocacy give?
- Special Needs Advocacy reported 24 grants totaling $14,813 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Special Needs Advocacy fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (27%), Health (19%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Special Needs Advocacy's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Philabundance ($2k), Support Center for Child Advocates ($2k), Alliance for Empowerment Inc ($750).
- Does Special Needs Advocacy fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Special Needs Advocacy 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 Special Needs Advocacy?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Special Needs Advocacy based?
- Special Needs Advocacy is based in PA.
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