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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.2MEducation$1.2MReligion$377kAnimals$168kInternational$82kEnvironment$12kHuman Services$3kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $363k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$49,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MOTHER'S HOME: $1k → 10%MOTHER'S HOME INC: $1k → 10%MOTHER'S HOME: $1k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%ELWYN: $56k → 10%ELWYN: $14k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 77% of The Strine Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 21%.

The Strine Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 12 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$2.1M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+65%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationReligionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EO
    ELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $70k · revenue +15%
  • TJ
    THE JOHN J TYLER ARBORETUM
    2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +127%
  • MH
    MOTHERS' HOME
    3× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • FC
    FORGOTTEN CATS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +65%
  • TR
    THE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +113%
  • RH
    RIDDLE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Riddle Memorial Hospital

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.

Health
2
Wilmington University Inc

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…

Education
3
Main Line Health System

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…

Health
4
Delaware Valley University

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…

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5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

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.

Health
8
The Mennonite Home

The christ-centered mission of woodcrest villa and trillium place is to enrich the lives of residents, staff, and the community.

Human Services
9
Main Line Healthcare

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…

Health
10
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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11
Upmc Pinnacle Lancaster

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.

Health
12
White Plains Hospital Medical Center

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elwyn Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $1,170,500 · EducationWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADESMain Line Hospitals Inc: $1,000,000 · HealthMain Line Hospitals Inc+1 more: $10,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $310,599 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEDIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $284,250 · OtherMEDIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHPROVIDENCE ANIMAL SHELTER: $113,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE ANIMAL SHELTER+11 more: $41,250 · Other+11 moreTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE: $69,750 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $92,500 · ReligionDELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $40,000 · AnimalsFORGOTTEN CATS INC: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE JOHN J TYLER ARBORETUM: $12,275 · Environment
Education$1,170,500Health$1,010,000Other$749,099Human Services$172,750Religion$92,500Animals$55,000Environment$12,275

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $1,170,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMain Line Hospitals Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $92,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE: $69,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN CATS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE JOHN J TYLER ARBORETUM: $12,275 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RIDDLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS' HOME: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROCKY RUN FIRE COMPANY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN C SANDERSON MUSEUM: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Foundation for Delawa…Delaware Community Fo…Lincoln Financial Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Foundation for Delaware CountyPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Strine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Strine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Forgotten Cats Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Strine Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Strine Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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