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The Audrey S Knewstub Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41k
Granted FY2026still arriving
4
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$184kAnimals$52kPublic Benefit$1k
02FY2026 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Life Science Cares$29,500
Horizons at Episcopal Academy$7,500
Covenant House Pennsylvania$2,000
Alzheimers Association$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%All 4 Paws Rescue: $10k → 6%Elwyn: $39k → 22%Elwyn: $32k → 22%Elwyn: $27k → 22%Elwyn: $20k → 22%Elwyn: $14k → 22%Elwyn: $10k → 22%Elwyn: $10k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 3 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$215k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+380%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • EO
    ELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $151k · revenue +15%
  • RR
    RYLIES RESCUE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $42k · revenue -1%
  • DF
    DMAX FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $23k · revenue -26%

Funded once

  • NM
    NAMI MAIN LINE PAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +380% · 33% of their budget
  • A4
    ALL 4 PAWS RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -17%
  • TH
    TENDER HEARTSINCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +780%
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
The Children's Institute Parent Company

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

Education
2
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
3
Delaware Family Voices Inc

Delaware family voices's mission is to improve access to quality care & support for children, youth & young adults with special health care needs & disabilities, promoting family centered care

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4
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

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

Education
5
Merakey Allegheny Valley School

Provide quality programs and facilities to help the individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities entrusted to our care live with purpose, dignity and to provide opportunities to grow and function at their full potential and as…

Human Services
6
Wesley Family Services

To empower children, adults and families by providing transformational quality whole person care.

Human Services
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services
9
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
10
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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11
Keystone Service Systems Inc

Keystone service systems, inc. (kss) provides residential and related support services for families and people who experience intellectual disability, mental illness, or other behavioral challenges throughout central pennsylvania and the…

Human Services
12
Familiar Hearts Animal Society

we are an animal rescue taking in homeless pets in northwestern philadelphia, providing them with medical care, food, shelter and new forever homes.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Science Cares Inc; the most unlike its peers is All 4 Paws Rescue. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE: $150,750 · Human ServicesELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWAREALL 4 PAWS RESCUE: $10,000 · Human ServicesALL 4 PAWS RESCUELIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $29,500 · HealthLIFE SCIENCE CARES INCDMAX FOUNDATION: $22,500 · HealthDMAX FOUNDATIONNAMI MAIN LINE PA: $10,166 · HealthNAMI MAIN LINE PA+1 more: $500 · HealthRYLIES RESCUE INC: $41,500 · AnimalsRYLIES RESCUE IN…Episcopal Academy: $7,500 · EducationCovenant House Pennsylvania: $2,000 · OtherAlzheimers Association: $1,500 · OtherTENDER HEARTSINC: $1,364 · Public Benefit
Human Services$160,750Health$62,666Animals$41,500Education$7,500Other$3,500Public Benefit$1,364

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 budgetELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE: $150,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRYLIES RESCUE INC: $41,500 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetDMAX FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetNAMI MAIN LINE PA: $10,166 over 1y, 33% of budgetALL 4 PAWS RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTENDER HEARTSINC: $1,364 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 The Audrey S Knewstub Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Audrey S Knewstub Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 11 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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