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The EMSS Foundation Inc

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.

$208k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
78
Grants FY2024
71
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
44 to 80
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The EMSS Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalEducationEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving75$199k41%
FY202371$176k17%
FY202277$158k17%
FY202180$159k28%
FY202060$135k25%
FY201955$115k51%
FY201744$97kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$302kCivil Rights$137kEducation$101kArts & Culture$77kPhilanthropy$76kHuman Services$71kReligion$63kInternational$57kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 91 grantees
All grantees of The EMSS Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hackensack Meridian Health Inc$47,0003n/a
The Loveland Foundation Inc$25,00050%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$25,00050%
Children First PA$25,00050%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region$21,00070%
Empire State University Foundation Inc$19,00061%
National Geographic Society$17,50070%
Doylestown Health Foundation$17,00040%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$15,00030%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$15,00030%
The Actors' Fund of America$15,00060%
Team Rubicon Inc$15,00030%
Anti-Defamation League$14,00060%
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases$13,50040%
World Central Kitchen Inc$12,50050%
National Psoriasis Foundation$12,00070%
National Park Foundation$12,00060%
Temple Judea$11,5515n/a
New York Public Radio$11,10070%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$10,70050%
Galapagos Conservancy Inc$10,50060%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$10,50060%
The Parent Project for Muscular Dystrophy Research Inc$10,00010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$10,00020%
Breastfeeding Resource Center$10,00011%
Laurel House$10,00040%
Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc$10,00020%
Cure Duchenne$10,00010%
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc$10,00050%
ICING SMILES Inc$10,00024%
Jewish Relief Agency$10,00020%
Glsen Inc$10,00050%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$9,50020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$9,00050%
Franklin & Marshall College$8,78770%
Mattie N Dixon Community Cupboard Inc$8,50040%
Maltz Jupiter Theatre Inc$8,00050%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$8,00070%
Grands Stepping Up$8,00043%
Trevor Project Inc$8,00040%
Mission Kids Child Advocacy Center$7,50060%
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc$6,50060%
Brightfocus Foundation$6,00030%
Kol Dorot a Reform Jewish Community$5,6004n/a
Congregation Bnai Jeshurun$5,5505n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,50060%
Pennypack Farm & Education Center$5,50041%
It Takes Philly$5,00010%
Vetri Foundation for Children$5,00020%
Rise Against Hunger Inc$5,00010%
National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition$5,0001n/a
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$5,00010%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc$4,50020%
New Jersey Audubon Society$4,00060%
American Jewish Committee$4,00020%
Make Schools Safe Inc Dba Make Our Schools Safe$4,00060%
Zaka North Inc$3,60010%
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc$3,60010%
Zaka$3,6001n/a
Heights Philadelphia$3,50020%
Tri-Boro Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc$3,50060%
Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery$3,00012%
Williams College$3,00030%
Equal Justice Initiative$3,00030%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$2,50040%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$2,50010%
Wellesley College$2,50050%
No Stomach for Cancer Inc$2,50040%
Woodcliff Lake Volunteer Fire Department Inc$2,50053%
Gastric Cancer Foundation$2,00020%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$2,00010%
Bikemore Inc$2,00040%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$2,00010%
El Futuro Inc$2,00040%
American Macular Degeneration Goehring$2,00010%
WGBH Educational Foundation$1,50030%
Abington Health Foundation$1,50010%
Tourette Association of America Inc$1,00010%
Foundation for Morristown Medical Center$1,00010%
The Friends of Upper Dublin Public Library$1,00010%
Tourette Association of America Inc$1,0001n/a
Pids Foundation$1,00010%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$1,00010%
United We Dream Network Inc$1,00010%
Ann's Choice Inc$60020%
Pacific Whale Foundation$50010%
The Monkey and the Elephant$50010%
Tucson Audubon Society$50010%
Upper Dublin Education Foundation$50010%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$50010%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($348k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The EMSS Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Loveland Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren First PA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEmpire State University Foundation Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDoylestown Health Foundation: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for Infectious Diseases: $13,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Psoriasis Foundation: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $11,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $10,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGalapagos Conservancy Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Parent Project for Muscular Dystrophy Research Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBreastfeeding Resource Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLaurel House: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCure Duchenne: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetICING SMILES Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetJewish Relief Agency: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGlsen Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin & Marshall College: $8,787 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMattie N Dixon Community Cupboard Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMaltz Jupiter Theatre Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGrands Stepping Up: $8,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMission Kids Child Advocacy Center: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBrightfocus Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPennypack Farm & Education Center: $5,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetIt Takes Philly: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVetri Foundation for Children: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRise Against Hunger Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 84.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William Penn FoundationPA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Healthspark Foundation · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Penn Community Bank Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Phillies Charities Inc · The Cigna Group Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation

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.

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About The EMSS Foundation Inc

How much does The EMSS Foundation Inc give?
The EMSS Foundation Inc reported 78 grants totaling $208,410 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The EMSS Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Civil Rights (12%), Education (9%).
Who are The EMSS Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hackensack Meridian Health Inc ($47k), The Loveland Foundation Inc ($25k), Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services ($25k).
Does The EMSS Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The EMSS Foundation Inc 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 The EMSS Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is The EMSS Foundation Inc based?
The EMSS Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 173 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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