How much did THE SATELL INSTITUTE grant in FY2022?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of THE SATELL INSTITUTE’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.

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

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$408k

$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+14%

Still filing today

45%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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 OF PENNSYLVANIA
2× · 2020–2021 · $82k · revenue +73%
FI
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
2× · 2020–2021 · $32k · revenue +31%
GS
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +53%

Funded once

TS
THE SATELL FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3.0M · revenue +793% · 77% of their budget
PHILABUNDANCEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $81k · revenue +35%
AH
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2020 · $39k · revenue +14%

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.

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

The Philadelphia Award

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The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

The athenaeum of philadelphia nurtures curiosity in members and neighbors, strengthening community through learning, discourse and meaningful engagement. the athenaeum is a historic and vibrant philadelphia-centered and member-supported…

Education

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

As the first art museum and school in the us, pafa celebrates the transformative power of art and art-making.

Education

The Philadelphia School

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

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Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts.

Education

University of Pittsburgh

To provide high quality educational services, research, and community service.

Education

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The provision of education, research, and charitable patient care services.

Education

The Philadelphia Public School Notebook

By providing reporting and analysis about public schools in philadelphia and creating forums for dialogue and education, the philadelphia public school notebook empowers parents, educators, students and residents to improve conditions for…

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Penn State Alumni Association

To connect alumni to the university and to each other, to provide valued services to members, and to support the university's mission of teaching, research, and service.

Education

Pennsylvania State Education Association

We support, empower, and advocate for members, students, and public education.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Drueding Center and the most unlike its peers is Shipley School. 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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/44

the rest of the field

11%

2,642/23,100

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

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/42

Grantees still filing

27/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,798,875Education$116,000Food & Nutrition$113,500Philanthropy$70,250Arts & Culture$49,050Youth Development$46,800Human Services$40,000

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 FoundationPA45.6× 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 · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Td Charitable Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Wsfs Cares 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 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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: THE SATELL FAMILY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237769039 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 THE SATELL FAMILY FOUNDATION, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 77% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Satell Institute?

Find your warmest path to The Satell Institute 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.

THE SATELL INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Satell Institute?

More from the funding graph

THE SATELL INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Satell Institute?

More from the funding graph