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The Strine Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $363k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF TRADES | $175,000 |
| ELWYN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $87,500 |
| MEDIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $49,500 |
| PROVIDENCE ANIMAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CITY TEAM | $5,500 |
| MOTHER'S HOME INC | $1,000 |
| SANDERSON MUSEUM | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 77% of The Strine Foundation’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, 89% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 21% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EOELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE2× · 2019–2020 · $70k · revenue +15%
- TJTHE JOHN J TYLER ARBORETUM2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +27%
- MHMOTHERS' HOME3× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- FCFORGOTTEN CATS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +65%
- TRTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +113%
- RHRIDDLE HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of riddle memorial hospital is to provide a comprehensive range of safe, high quality health services that meet healthcare needs and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
Main line health system is the corporate holding company for main line health and subsidiaries and one of the members of the obligated group of certain bond indebtedness for the health system. main line health system does not provide…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
The christ-centered mission of woodcrest villa and trillium place is to enrich the lives of residents, staff, and the community.
The professionals of main line healthcare, a key partner in a comprehensive healthcare network, are committed to providing the exceptional care that has been entrusted to us by patients and their families. main line healthcare provides…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Upmc lancaster's mission while in operation as a charitable organization was dedicated to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
White plains hospital (wph) is a voluntary, not-for-profit health care organization with the primary mission of offering high quality, acute health care and preventive medical care to all people who live in, work in, or visit westchester…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elwyn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds Main Line Hospitals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ELWYN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CATS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN J TYLER ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS' HOME ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds MILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY RUN FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN C SANDERSON MUSEUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for Delaware County · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Strine Foundation 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.
- Forgotten Cats Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
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