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The Raphael Family Foundation

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.

$854k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Education$555kArts & Culture$250kHealth$135kPhilanthropy$60kYouth Development$55kCivil Rights$25kEnvironment$20kCrime & Legal$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK INC$250,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$250,000
ITS BIGGER THAN US$50,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT$45,000
MARYS PLACE BY THE SEA INC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC$20,000
MUSIC FOR MOVEMENTS INC$20,000
CITYTEAM MINISTRIES$18,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$16,000
FRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC$15,000
THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$15,000
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC$10,000
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 (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT HOME: $4k → 22%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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of The Raphael Family Foundation’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.

The Raphael Family Foundationlessmore 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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$581k · 3 repeat orgs$512k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$581k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-37%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • AI
    ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +32%
  • AA
    American Association for Cancer Research Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $41k · revenue +85%
  • TC
    THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEONARD & MADLYN ABRAMSON FAMILY CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -37%

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.

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University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
2
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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3
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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4
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
10
University of Maryland Obstetrical Andgynecological Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Music for Movements Inc Dba Bye Bye Plastic Usa. 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 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%9%<5yr13%9%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr15%39%35–55yr17%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%9%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr17%69%20–35yr15%8%35–55yr17%9%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,138

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

24 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. 24 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
10/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $500,000 · EducationACADEMY IN MANAYUNK+1 more — $5,000 · EducationCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDAT…American Association for Cancer Research Inc — $41,000 · HealthAmerican …MARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC — $25,000 · HealthMARY'S PL…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthTHE CHILD…THE LEONARD & MADLYN ABRAMSON FAMILY CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $9,000 · HealthTHE LEONA…ARTZ PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 · HealthTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · OtherTHE COOPER FOU…Individual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual gra…MUSIC FOR MOVEMENTS INC DBA BYE BYE PLASTIC USA — $20,000 · OtherMUSIC FOR MOVE…CITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $18,000 · OtherCITYTEAM MINIS…FRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC — $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FAR…PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $10,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA Y…+7 more — $25,000 · Other+7 moreIT S BIGGER THAN US — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBROWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Community ImprovementYOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT — $45,000 · Youth Development
Education$505,000Arts & Culture$250,000Health$95,000Other$153,000Philanthropy$60,000Community Improvement$50,000Youth Development$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $500,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIT S BIGGER THAN US — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR ADVANCEMENT HANGOUT — $45,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc — $41,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMUSIC FOR MOVEMENTS INC DBA BYE BYE PLASTIC USA — $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEONARD & MADLYN ABRAMSON FAMILY CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTZ PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA PROJECT — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Barra Foundation …The Philadelphia Foun…Independence Foundati…Lincoln Financial Fou…Chubb Charitable Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…Enterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Barra Foundation IncPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Barra Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Raphael Family Foundation 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 · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Raphael Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Raphael Family Foundation 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 25 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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