· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Broadway Community Food Bank | $500 |
| PACAN | $500 |
| AFI | $500 |
| Mural Arts Philadelphia | $500 |
| Life Center of Delaware County | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Mothers Home | $500 |
| WXPN | $480 |
| Individual grant recipient | $445 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SJSt Judes Childrens Hospital3× · 2022–2024 · $3k
Philabundance4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue -5%- SCSupport Center for Child Advocates4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue -5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $1k
- ASAUTISM SPEAKS INCone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -38%
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
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…
(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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Special Needs Advocacy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Special Needs Advocacy. Bigger dots raise more.
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