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· Private foundation
THE PINCUS FUND FOR HUNGER RELIEF
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$59k
Granted FY2024
60
Grants
3
Communities
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of THE PINCUS FUND FOR HUNGER RELIEF’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
interfaithprebyterian soupreturningsunday love
2021
ame churchmouth godgod gracefullyinterfaithfresh startharambe baptisthaven under
2022
farmzionchurch foodfood pantry
2023
cabrini cupboardcupboard cabrinieast parkpark revitalizationactionhomieshaven church
2024
genealactiondrexelformerlyhomieszionmighty writers
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 60 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$201k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CITYTEAM$1,000
- NEW RIVER PRESBYTERIAN (FORMERLY THE FIRST AFRICAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)$1,000
- THE WORD IN ACTION$1,000
- MT ZION UNITED HOLY CHURCH$1,000
- SEAMAAC$1,000
- DREXEL UNIVERSITY$1,000
- PINN MEMORIAL$1,000
- FEAST OF JUSTICE$1,000
- ST JOSEPHS HOUSE - DEPAUL USA$1,000
- UPPER ROOM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH FOOD PANTRY$1,000
- CLOUD 9 ROOFTOP FARM$1,000
- MURPHYS GIVING MARKET$1,000
- FEDERATION HOUSING$1,000
- KNIGHT'S PANTRY - NEUMANN UNIVERSITY$1,000
- FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA (FORMERLY INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE)$1,000
02The need
04
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 (FY20–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$263k · 81 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
81
13
Total granted
$263k
$8k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+58%
+23%
Still filing today
15%
15%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesReligionHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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
- DCDRUEDING CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +0%
- FTFACE TO FACE5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +64%
- VCVOICE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- DMDREXEL MARIOS MARKETone grant, 2022 · $1k
- NGNATURE'S GARDEN FOR VICTORY & PEACEone grant, 2023 · $850
- FPFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PAone grant, 2022 · $850 · revenue +18%
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
Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development
Dignity Housing's mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty that confronts low-income families and individuals in the City of Philadelphia.
—
2
Kids Against Hunger Philadelphia Inc
From 2019 to 2021 we partnered with Philabundance to provide all of the meals for their backpack program. We packed meals 7 days week all with the help of thousands of volunteers. Each backpack was filled with 4 different meals (24…
Food & Nutrition
3
Together for West Philadelphia
Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.
Unclassified
4
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
End intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers.
Philanthropy
5
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
6
Frankford Community Development Corporation
The Frankford Community Development Corporation FCDC is dedicated to the asset-based development of Lower Northeast Philadelphia by focusing on job creation affordable and workforce housing development improving awareness and outcomes…
Housing & Shelter
7
Sanctuary Farm Phila
Sanctuary Farm seeks to address the health inequities resulting from systemic racial oppression and economic injustice by converting abandoned and neglected areas in our community into spaces that promote safety, hospitality, nutrition and…
Food & Nutrition
8
Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia
In order to promote social harmony and inter-religious understanding, Interfaith Philadelphia equips individuals and communities for interfaith engagement, builds collaborative relationships, and stands in solidarity with our diverse…
Religion
9
African Family Health Organization
Afaho provides health and human services to african and caribbean immigrants and refugees in the greater philadelphia area.
Civil Rights
10
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
Employment
11
Sharing Excess
Sharing Excess (SE) is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that uses surplus food as a solution to scarcity. While over 40 million people in the US face food insecurity, nearly 40% of the nation's food supply is going to waste. Our mission is…
Food & Nutrition
12
Soul Food Community Development Corporation Inc
To create community empowerment in Philadelphias poorer neighborhoods in order to help residents obtain self-sufficiency and improve their overall quality of life.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Drueding Center and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
14%
1,343/9,571
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
20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$230,565Human Services$28,940Religion$6,400Youth Development$6,350Food & Nutrition$4,000Health$2,220Environment$2,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FoundationPA22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Philabundance · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family · The William Penn Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Claneil Foundation Inc · Hassel Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Albertsons Companies Foundation
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 organisation THE PINCUS FUND FOR HUNGER RELIEF 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TOUCH NEW JERSEY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 262031100 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on TOUCH NEW JERSEY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Pincus Fund for Hunger Relief?
Find your warmest path to The Pincus Fund for Hunger Relief through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines