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The Sarah Ralston Foundation

THE SARAH RALSTON FOUNDATION supports and enhances the quality of life of vulnerable and underserved older adults residing in philadelphia county.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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.

Human Services$1.8MHealth$1.5MHousing & Shelter$628kCommunity Improvement$378kEducation$375kFood & Nutrition$370kCrime & Legal$288kCivil Rights$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $421k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA$250,000
PHILLY HOUSE 1878$150,000
WIDENER UNIVERSITY$150,000
OVERBROOK WEST NEIGHBORS - OWN$150,000
CONNECTEDLY$150,000
SENIORLAW CENTER$150,000
PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$150,000
GENERATIONS ON LINE$125,000
PATHWAYS TO HOUSING PA$121,078
WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER$120,000
CENTER IN THE PARK INC$110,000
ARTZ PHILADELPHIA$105,000
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES$105,000
LUTHERAN SETTLEMENT HOUSE$100,000
AFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA$100,000
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 (FY23–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NORTHERN LIVING CENTER BY NORTH CITY CONGRESS (PCA): $50k → 22%NORTHERN LIVING CENTER BY NORTH CITY CONGRESS (PCA: $50k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $60k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $90k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $45k → 7%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $60k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $50k → 22%PENN'S VILLAGE: $15k → 22%PENN'S VILLAGE: $15k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK INC: $110k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $95k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $50k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $50k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $50k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $45k → 22%UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST OUTREAH PROGRAM: $25k → 22%UUH OUTREACH PROGRAM: $25k → 22%JOSEPH J HILL RALSTON-MERCY DOUGLASS HOUSE: $35k → 22%INTERCOMMUNITY ACTION INC: $100k → 22%INTERCOMMUNITY ACTION INC: $50k → 22%CONNECTEDLY: $150k → 22%CONNECTEDLY: $50k → 22%CONNECTEDLY: $30k → 22%INGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 22%INGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $75k → 22%INGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE MINISTRIES: $25k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $25k → 22%KITHS INTEGRATED AND TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 22%SEAMAAC INC: $37k → 22%PHILLY HOUSE 1878: $150k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 22%VISIONLINK: $75k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $105k → 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.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 32 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
8

Total granted

$3.7M
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+8%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $375k · revenue +13%
  • SENIORLAW CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +8%
  • IA
    INTERCOMMUNITY ACTION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IC
    INGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue +135%
  • JK
    Jeff Kornblau Partners For Patient Advocacy
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +8%
  • HP
    Health Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +21%

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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
3
Inglis House

Inglis' mission is to enable people with disabilities - and those who care for them - to achieve their goals and live life to the fullest.

Human Services
4
Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement

Pcca's mission is to strengthen households and communities by developing and preserving homeownership and affordable housing, and educating consumers to increase accessability to economic opportunities.

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5
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
6
Inglis Housing Corporation

To provide affordable, accessible and safe housing for people with physical disabilities where they enjoy an environment of independence and mobility, achieve their goals and live life to the fullest.

Housing & Shelter
7
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
8
Inglis Foundation

The inglis foundation's mission is to enable people with disabilities, and those who care for them, to achieve their goals and live life to the fullest. inglis partners with the disability community to provide practical solutions that…

Human Services
9
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
10
The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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11
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
12
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Children and Family Service of Eastern Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is Unitarian Universalist House Out- Reach of Joseph Priestley District. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr15%16%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr11%37%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr11%50%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/60
the rest of the field
16%
1,553/9,536

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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 60 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
36/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONNECTEDLY — $230,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTEDLYINTERCOMMUNITY ACTION INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesINTERCOMMUNITY ACTION INCCENTER IN THE PARK — $210,000 · Human ServicesCENTER IN THE PARKFACE TO FACE INC — $190,000 · Human ServicesFACE TO FACE INCPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING — $170,000 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGINGSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION — $150,000 · Human ServicesSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSIONJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $135,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREAT…WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $120,000 · Human ServicesWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTERINGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania — $105,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CITY CONGRESS — $100,000 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MINISTRY — $100,000 · Human ServicesVisionLink — $75,000 · Human Services+6 more — $212,000 · Human Services+6 moreHEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC — $375,000 · OtherHEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA I…COUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC — $150,000 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INCLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY — $150,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETYPATHWAYS TO HOUSING PA — $121,078 · OtherPATHWAYS TO HOUSING PAMAZZONI CENTER — $120,000 · OtherMAZZONI CENTERTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $110,000 · OtherTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDAT…CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY — $100,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS …REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA — $100,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIAAFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA — $100,000 · OtherAFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF PENNS…AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION — $120,000 · OtherAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION+11 more — $324,500 · Other+11 moreGENERATIONS ON LINE — $150,000 · EducationGENERATIO…WIDENER UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationWIDENER U…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $125,000 · EducationTRUSTEES …SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationSAINT JOS…Overbrook West Neighbors — $150,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $150,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER-PHILADELPHIA — $40,000 · Community ImprovementUrban Resources Development Corporation — $35,000 · Community ImprovementFEDERATION HOUSING INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $12,500 · Community ImprovementARTZ PHILADELPHIA — $130,000 · HealthMADLYN AND LEONARD ABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND SUBSIDIARIES — $100,000 · HealthJeff Kornblau Partners For Patient Advocacy — $60,000 · Health+2 more — $17,500 · HealthCARING FOR FRIENDS — $160,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS — $39,600 · Food & NutritionSENIORLAW CENTER — $225,000 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHIA VIP INC — $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$2,132,000Other$1,770,578Education$450,000Community Improvement$407,500Health$307,500Food & Nutrition$259,600Crime & Legal$250,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC — $375,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTEDLY — $230,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER — $225,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetINTERCOMMUNITY ACTION INC — $225,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER IN THE PARK — $210,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC — $190,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING — $170,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARING FOR FRIENDS — $160,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION — $150,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGENERATIONS ON LINE — $150,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY — $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $150,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $135,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARTZ PHILADELPHIA — $130,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION — $120,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $120,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER — $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetINGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $110,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania — $105,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH CITY CONGRESS — $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY — $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY — $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMADLYN AND LEONARD ABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND SUBSIDIARIES — $100,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetVisionLink — $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJeff Kornblau Partners For Patient Advocacy — $60,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPARAPROFESSIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST HOUSE OUT- REACH OF JOSEPH PRIESTLEY DISTRICT — $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFEAST OF JUSTICE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHealth Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER-PHILADELPHIA — $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE) — $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS — $39,600 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC — $37,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRALSTON MERCY DOUGLASS HOUSE — $35,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUrban Resources Development Corporation — $35,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetLUTHERAN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPenns Village — $30,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetMASJID AL-WASATIYAH WAL-ITIDAAL — $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetDEPAUL USA INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VIP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLove Pray Peace Project — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 Philadelphia Foun…W W Smith Charitable …United Way of Greater…Union Benevolent Asso…Henrietta Tower Wurts…The Patricia Kind Fam…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The William Penn Foun…The Leo and Peggy Pie…Scattergood Behaviora…The Gordon Charter Fo…Independence Foundati…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA60.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Union Benevolent Association · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Independence 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 organization The Sarah Ralston 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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