Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Satell Institute
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 62
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations The Satell Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $90k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $3.2M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $952k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Satell Family Foundation | $3,000,000 | 1 | 77% |
| Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc | $81,900 | 2 | 1% |
| Philabundance | $81,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | $54,900 | 3 | 0% |
| World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh | $39,675 | 3 | 3% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $38,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Franklin Institute | $31,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City Year Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $26,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Satell Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Satell Institute
- How much does The Satell Institute give?
- The Satell Institute reported 2 grants totaling $2,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does The Satell Institute fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Education (5%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are The Satell Institute's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Satell Family Foundation ($3.0M), Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc ($82k), Philabundance ($81k).
- Does The Satell Institute fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Satell Institute accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Satell Institute?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.
- Where is The Satell Institute based?
- The Satell Institute is based in PA.
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