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The Satell Institute

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.

$90k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$27k
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 FY2020–2022.

Philanthropy$3.0MEducation$209kYouth Development$181kHuman Services$121kArts & Culture$119kFood & Nutrition$114kHealth$99kRecreation & Sports$82kOther$0
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
$20,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS$26,900
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$21,800
CRADLE OF LIBERTY BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$20,500
LEARN FRESH$12,200
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL$8,100
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 (FY20–20, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DRUEDING CENTER: $10k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $10k → 22%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $30k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $26k → 22%PEOPLES EMERGENCY CENTER: $10k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
MD
DE
TX

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 100% of The Satell Institute’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. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Satell Institutelessmore 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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$408k · 11 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
54

Total granted

$408k
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+25%

Still filing today

73%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $82k · revenue +86%
  • TF
    THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $32k · revenue +104%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SF
    SATELL FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3.0M · revenue +30% · 77% of their budget
  • Philabundance
    one grant, 2020 · $81k · revenue +0%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $39k · revenue +53%

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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
6
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
8
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
9
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
10
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
11
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
12
The Philadelphia Education Fund

The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Satell Family Foundation. 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 49 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr13%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%79%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
13%
5,155/40,998

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

54 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. 54 of the 67 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SATELL FAMILY FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 · OtherSATELL FAMILY FOUNDATION+32 more — $591,150 · Other+32 morePENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $54,900 · EducationTHE MAIN LINE CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $21,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — $20,000 · EducationCB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $20,000 · EducationHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC — $20,000 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationHOMEFRONT INC — $10,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE — $10,000 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationPhilabundance — $81,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $7,500 · Food & NutritionGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association — $30,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE KIDSPACE — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPEPHL — $10,000 · Human ServicesFEAST OF JUSTICE — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME — $10,000 · Human ServicesDRUEDING CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH — $39,675 · InternationalFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $24,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $10,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $30,250 · PhilanthropyTHE JOSEPH FUND INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Heart Association Inc — $38,500 · HealthALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC — $20,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 · Health
Other$3,591,150Education$200,900Food & Nutrition$113,500Human Services$106,000International$84,175Philanthropy$70,250Health$68,500

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 budgetSATELL FAMILY FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $81,900 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPhilabundance — $81,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $54,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH — $39,675 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $38,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $31,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $30,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $24,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MAIN LINE CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSEPH FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACHIEVEABILITY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $19,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO — $17,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH NETWORK INC — $16,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Liberty Museum — $15,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEVS HUMAN SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates — $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE KIDSPACE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHOPEPHL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEAST OF JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDRUEDING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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…United Way of Greater…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The William Penn Foun…Td Charitable Foundat…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Patricia Kind Fam…Connelly FoundationThe Gordon Charter Fo…Satell Family Foundat…Wsfs Cares FoundationW W Smith Charitable …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA45.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Satell Family Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust

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 Satell Institute 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%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Reach Riverside Development Corp — 100% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 67 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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