Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $319k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 62
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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 | 44 | $295k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $278k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $360k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $373k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $405k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $315k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lankenau Medical Center Foundation | $245,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $218,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jevs Human Services | $60,467 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Relief Agency | $60,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Philabundance | $37,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Home | $31,900 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of Natal Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Guideline Services | $30,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($833k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Tzedakah Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Jill and Mark Fishman Foundation · Georgejack & Joan Shuster Foundation Inc C/O Gail Norry · The Solomon & Sylvia Bronstein Fdn · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Clayman Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Connelly Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc reported 47 grants totaling $319,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), International (14%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lankenau Medical Center Foundation ($245k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($218k), Jevs Human Services ($60k).
- Does The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc 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 Sidewater Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tzedakah Foundation, The Saramar Charitable Fund, Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation.
- Where is The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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