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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.8MHealth$1.5MHousing & Shelter$628kCommunity Improvement$378kEducation$375kFood & Nutrition$370kCrime & Legal$288kCivil Rights$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $597k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $883k
  • $250k+1 grant · $375k
$25,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES$375,000
BROAD STREET LOVE$190,000
URBAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$165,250
CHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS$105,000
ORDINARIE HEROES$79,000
VISIONLINK$70,000
NORTHERN LIVING CENTER BY NORTH CITY CONGRESS (PCA$63,000
FACE TO FACE$55,000
CARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE$55,000
CENTER IN THE PARK INC$50,500
LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED$50,000
PHILLY HOUSE 1878$45,000
LOVE PRAY PEACE PROJECT VETERANS RESIDENCE$42,000
TCG GROCERIES (DBA THE COMMUNITY GROCER)$35,000
CARIE$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHERN LIVING CENTER BY NORTH CITY CONGRESS (PCA: $63k → 22%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%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $60k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $45k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $10k → 7%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $50k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $25k → 22%PENN'S VILLAGE: $15k → 22%PENN'S VILLAGE: $15k → 22%PENN'S VILLAGE: $10k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK INC: $110k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $95k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $55k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK INC: $51k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $50k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $50k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $50k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $45k → 22%UUH OUTREACH PROGRAM: $25k → 22%UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST OUTREAH PROGRAM: $25k → 22%UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST OUTREAH PROGRAM: $23k → 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%CONNECTEDLY: $20k → 22%INGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 22%INGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $75k → 22%INGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE MINISTRIES: $25k → 22%KITHS INTEGRATED AND TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $25k → 22%KITHS INTEGRATED & TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 22%SEAMAAC INC: $37k → 22%BROAD STREET LOVE: $190k → 22%PHILLY HOUSE 1878: $150k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 22%VISIONLINK: $75k → 22%VISIONLINK: $70k → 22%PHILLY HOUSE 1878: $45k → 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 40 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
19

Total granted

$5.4M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+21%

Still filing today

95%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $375k · revenue +13%
  • CI
    CENTER IN THE PARK
    3× · 2023–2025 · $261k · revenue +20%
  • FT
    FACE TO FACE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $245k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • OW
    Overbrook West Neighborsgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue ×391
  • WU
    WIDENER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +10%
  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +30%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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.

—
4
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
5
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Garden Court Community Association Inc

The Garden Court Community Association (GCCA) is an organization of individuals and families living and working in the Garden Court neighborhood in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since the mid 1950's, GCCA has worked to foster, promote,…

—
10
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
11
Pennsylvania Community Real Estate Corp

None

Housing & Shelter
12
Milestone Centers Inc

Milestone provides quality, life-enhancing services that promote wellness and the development of human potential to people with behavioral health and intellectual challenges. each year milestone serves approximately 3,500 residents of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Children and Family Service of Eastern Pennsylvania; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
46/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $290,000 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MINISTRYCENTER IN THE PARK: $260,500 · Human ServicesCENTER IN THE PARKCONNECTEDLY: $250,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTEDLYFACE TO FACE INC: $245,000 · Human ServicesFACE TO FACE INCINTERCOMMUNITY ACTION INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesINTERCOMMUNITY ACTION INCPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $195,000 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGINGSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $195,000 · Human ServicesSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSIONNORTH CITY CONGRESS: $163,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CITY CONGRESSVisionLink: $145,000 · Human ServicesVisionLinkJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $135,000 · Human ServicesWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $120,000 · Human ServicesINGLIS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania: $105,000 · Human Services+7 more: $260,000 · Human Services+7 moreHEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $375,000 · OtherHEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHI…LUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY: $150,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETYCOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC: $150,000 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INCCENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY: $130,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGH…REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA: $130,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIATHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUN…PATHWAYS TO HOUSING PA: $121,078 · OtherPATHWAYS TO HOUSING PAAFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA: $120,000 · OtherAFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF PE…MAZZONI CENTER: $120,000 · OtherMAZZONI CENTEROrdinarie Heroes: $79,000 · OtherAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $120,000 · OtherAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATI…+16 more: $511,000 · Other+16 morePENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $375,000 · HealthPENN ASIAN …ARTZ PHILADELPHIA: $147,500 · HealthARTZ PHILAD…MADLYN AND LEONARD ABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND SUBSIDIARIES: $115,000 · HealthMADLYN AND …Jeff Kornblau Partners For Patient Advocacy: $70,000 · HealthJeff Kornbl…+2 more: $17,500 · HealthUrban Resources Development Corporation: $200,250 · Community ImprovementUrban Res…Overbrook West Neighbors: $150,000 · Community ImprovementOverbrook…PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $150,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELP…CENTER-PHILADELPHIA: $62,500 · Community ImprovementCENTER-PH…FEDERATION HOUSING INC: $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $12,500 · Community ImprovementGENERATIONS ON LINE: $165,000 · EducationWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $125,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationCARING FOR FRIENDS: $182,500 · Food & NutritionCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $144,600 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC: $85,250 · Food & NutritionTCG GROCERIES: $35,000 · Food & NutritionSENIORLAW CENTER: $225,000 · Crime & LegalCARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE: $55,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED: $50,000 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHIA VIP INC: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$2,698,500Other$2,131,078Health$725,000Community Improvement$595,250Education$465,000Food & Nutrition$447,350Crime & Legal$380,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $375,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $290,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCENTER IN THE PARK: $260,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $250,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC: $245,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER: $225,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetINTERCOMMUNITY ACTION INC: $225,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUrban Resources Development Corporation: $200,250 over 3y, 14% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $195,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $195,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCARING FOR FRIENDS: $182,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGENERATIONS ON LINE: $165,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetNORTH CITY CONGRESS: $163,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR RELATIONSHIPS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $150,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetARTZ PHILADELPHIA: $147,500 over 3y, 30% of budgetVisionLink: $145,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $144,600 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $135,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY: $130,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA: $130,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA: $120,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $120,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER: $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $120,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMADLYN AND LEONARD ABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND SUBSIDIARIES: $115,000 over 3y, 8.7% 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 budgetNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC: $85,250 over 3y, 18% of budgetOrdinarie Heroes: $79,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST HOUSE OUT- REACH OF JOSEPH PRIESTLEY DISTRICT: $72,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE): $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJeff Kornblau Partners For Patient Advocacy: $70,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLove Pray Peace Project: $67,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCENTER-PHILADELPHIA: $62,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCARING PEOPLE ALLIANCE: $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetPARAPROFESSIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VIP INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPenns Village: $40,250 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $37,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRALSTON MERCY DOUGLASS HOUSE: $35,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sarah Ralston Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sarah Ralston Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 71 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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