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The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Inc

To improve the lives of women and children by providing grants to effective non-profit organizations and to encourage education, leadership and community service in young women through mentoring and by awarding scholarships.

$108k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.

Human Services$91kHealth$22kEducation$18kYouth Development$15kCommunity Improvement$11kRecreation & Sports$10kHousing & Shelter$7kEmployment$7kArts & Culture$7kOther$49k
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $107,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY$5,000
DAWN'S PLACE$5,000
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 (FY18–21, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPEN HEARTH INC: $2k → 6%CRADLE OF HOPE: $3k → 7%CRADLE OF HOPE: $3k → 7%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $3k → 6%WELCOMING THE STRANGER: $4k → 6%BRIDGE OF HOPE NATIONAL: $4k → 6%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $5k → 22%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $3k → 22%DAWN'S PLACE: $5k → 22%GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR: $5k → 6%DAWN'S PLACE: $5k → 22%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $5k → 7%GOOD NEIGHBOR HOME REPAIR: $4k → 6%DAWN'S PLACE: $4k → 22%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 6%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 22%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 6%OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 6%MOM'S HOUSE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $4k → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $4k → 6%MOM'S HOUSE OF GREATER PHILADELLPHIA: $3k → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 6%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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$154k · 21 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
22

Total granted

$154k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • DP
    DAWN'S PLACE
    3× · 2018–2021 · $14k · revenue +31%
  • CN
    CENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +147%
  • GN
    GOOD NEIGHBORS INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +266%

Funded once

  • ML
    MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF RADNOR TWPgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +79%
  • SR
    SEBASTIAN RIDING ASSOCIATES
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +6%
  • OC
    ORION COMMUNITIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -1%

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
Family Promise of Philadelphia

To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.

Human Services
2
Phoenixville Womens Outreach

Phoenixville Womens Outreach empowers women to self-sufficiency, stability, and independence by providing a comprehensive transitional housing program, affordable housing, supportive services, advocacy and education.

Housing & Shelter
3
Pennsylvania Community Real Estate Corp

None

Housing & Shelter
4
Friend Inc Community Services

Friend inc community services is a multi-services social agency that supports the well-being of those in need and is committed to strengthening the lives of families and individuals living th northeastern berks county.

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5
Bridge of Hope Buxmont

Provides assistance to single mothers with dependent children experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness in bucks and montgomery counties in pennsylvania.

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6
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
7
Make It Happen Philly Inc

Serving individuals with intellectual disabilities low income families returning citizens from incarceration

Human Services
8
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education
9
Mom's House Inc of Lancaster

Empower single parents and their children to set and attain educational goals through parent support and mentorship, early childhood education and safe affordable childcare.

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10
The Arc of Camden County Inc

We provide a 6-hour, monday through friday program to invigorate the lives of individuals with disabilities. the occupational training center offers diversified vocational rehabilitation and job placement programs for adults. the…

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11
Pathways Pa Inc

To provide residential and community-based services and advocacy for women, children, and families, providing job training and employment assistance, as well as outreach and residential programs in order to help its clients achieve…

Human Services
12
Pennsylvania Home of the Sparrow

To partner with women facing homelessness to secure housing, achieve long- term stability, and chart new paths for their futures.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Chester Area Senior Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Behavioral Health…Senior Housing & Care Commu…Christian Missionary and Ev…Charter SchoolsCommunity Primary HealthcareChristian Mission Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr15%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr18%37%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr15%10%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
14%
2,460/18,207

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

42 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 43 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
32/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DAWN'S PLACE — $14,000 · Human ServicesDAWN'S PLACEGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INCCASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY — $8,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTYNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INCMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $7,000 · Human ServicesMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIAWings for Success Inc — $6,500 · Human ServicesWings for Success IncCradle of Hope Inc — $6,000 · Human ServicesCradle of Hope IncWEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER — $6,000 · Human ServicesWEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTERONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC — $4,830 · Human ServicesWELCOMING THE STRANGER INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF HOPE INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC — $4,000 · Human Services+4 more — $9,500 · Human Services+4 moreMEMORIAL LIBRARY OF RADNOR TWP — $12,500 · OtherMEMORIAL LIBRARY OF RADNOR TWPRSVP Volunteers — $5,500 · OtherRSVP VolunteersWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY — $5,500 · OtherWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DE…LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORRISTOWN — $5,000 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL OF NORRISTOWNORION COMMUNITIES INC — $5,000 · OtherORION COMMUNITIES INCPHILADELPHIA WOODEN BOAT FACTORY — $4,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA WOODEN BOAT FACTORYGOOD WORKS INC — $4,000 · OtherGOOD WORKS INCADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC — $3,120 · OtherPEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC — $7,000 · OtherPEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION IN…ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC — $6,500 · OtherROCK TO THE FUTURE INCWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD — $6,000 · OtherWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARDADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS AND THOSE IN NEED — $3,000 · Other+1 more — $2,000 · OtherTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC — $8,000 · HealthTHE BARN A…KELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND — $5,500 · HealthKELLY ANNE…CAMP DREAMCATCHER — $5,000 · HealthCAMP DREAM…SPRING-FORD COUNSELING SERVICES INC — $3,000 · HealthSPRING-FOR…HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION — $6,000 · EducationCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC — $4,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERS — $3,000 · EducationDELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EducationGIRLS FIRST — $2,000 · EducationTHE PARKESBURG POINT — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER — $9,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc — $2,000 · Community ImprovementSEBASTIAN RIDING ASSOCIATES — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$90,830Other$69,120Health$21,500Education$17,500Youth Development$15,000Community Improvement$11,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PARKESBURG POINT — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDAWN'S PLACE — $14,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMEMORIAL LIBRARY OF RADNOR TWP — $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER — $9,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC — $8,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $7,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWings for Success Inc — $6,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCradle of Hope Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRSVP Volunteers — $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND — $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEBASTIAN RIDING ASSOCIATES — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF NORRISTOWN — $5,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetORION COMMUNITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP DREAMCATCHER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC — $4,830 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWELCOMING THE STRANGER INC — $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC — $3,120 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS AND THOSE IN NEED — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPRING-FORD COUNSELING SERVICES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIHMCENTER FOR LITERACY & GEDPROGRAMS — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPEN HEARTH INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS FIRST — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…Connelly FoundationThe Gordon Charter Fo…Chester County Commun…W W Smith Charitable …Genuardi Family Found…Justamere FoundationHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…United Way of Chester…Grace S and W Linton …The Dansko Foundation…Union Benevolent Asso…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA58.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Genuardi Family Foundation · Justamere Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Chester County Inc · Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Union Benevolent Association

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 The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $120k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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