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Union Benevolent Association

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$333k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$496kHousing & Shelter$271kCommunity Improvement$228kCrime & Legal$193kHealth$122kCivil Rights$96kEducation$95kArts & Culture$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $330k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Common Place$60,000
African Cultural Alliance of North America Inc$60,000
Coalition of African Communities$60,000
Lift Every Voice Philly Inc$50,000
American family Health organization$50,000
Southwest Community Development Corp$50,000
Attic Youth Center$3,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $553k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLE OF HOPE: $4k → 14%CRADLE OF HOPE: $20k → 7%THE CRADLE OF HOPE: $7k → 7%THE CRADLE OF HOPE: $4k → 7%Southwest Community Development Corp: $50k → 22%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $8k → 7%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 22%THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $4k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $10k → 22%NORTH CENTRAL VICTIM SERVICES: $5k → 22%FAMILIES FORWARD PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%FAMILIES FORWARD PHILADELPHIA: $7k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES: $20k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES: $10k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $9k → 22%JUNTOS: $10k → 22%GERMANTOWN AVENUE CRISIS MINISTRY: $20k → 22%GERMANTOWN AVENUE CRISIS MINISTRY: $20k → 22%GERMANTOWN AVENUE CRISIS MINISTRY: $10k → 22%DAWN'S PLACE: $10k → 22%GERMANTOWN AVENUE CRISIS MINISTRY: $10k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $10k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $10k → 22%CENTER IN THE PARK: $7k → 22%DAWN'S PLACE: $6k → 22%WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION: $4k → 22%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER: $7k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $5k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $5k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%GARCES FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $20k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $20k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $10k → 22%KITHS INTEGRATED AND TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES: $6k → 22%PHILLY HOUSE: $40k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 22%SUNDAY BREAKFAST ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $10k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $10k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $7k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 22%DELAWARE VALLEY FAIRNESS PROJECT: $4k → 22%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 56 repeat orgs$709k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
120

Total granted

$1.2M
$609k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+26%

Still filing today

77%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • AF
    AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +112%
  • CO
    Coalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom
    3× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +64%
  • AC
    AFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $66k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • PE
    PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER CDC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • CO
    COALITION OF AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN COMMUNITIES (AFRICOM)
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • PI
    PA IS READY THE STATEWIDE IMMIGRATION COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
3
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
4
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
5
The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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6
Philadelphia Health Services Inc

Mentoring and educational programs for female youth

Youth Development
7
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
8
Urban Affairs Coalition

Driving change from the ground up, the urban affairs coalition (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging…

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9
Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement

Pcca's mission is to strengthen households and communities by developing and preserving homeownership and affordable housing, and educating consumers to increase accessability to economic opportunities.

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10
Family Promise of Philadelphia

To end family homelessness through direct aid, direct services, and advocacy.

Human Services
11
The Philadelphia Prevention Partnership

The Philadelphia Prevention Partnership is a coalition of community partnerships sharing the common goal of preventing substance abuse Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the long term throughout the City.

Health
12
Philadelphia Children's Alliance

Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopephl; the most unlike its peers is Outside the Bars. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

134 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. 134 of the 178 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)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/134
Grantees still filing
96/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry: $62,500 · Human ServicesGermantown Avenue Crisis Ministr…SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $60,000 · Human ServicesSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSIONSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $50,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT …FEAST OF JUSTICE: $50,000 · Human ServicesFEAST OF JUSTICEEsperanza Immigration Legal Services: $33,000 · Human ServicesEsperanza Immigration Legal Serv…Cradle of Hope Inc: $31,000 · Human ServicesCradle of Hope IncBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $27,000 · Human ServicesNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN: $24,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Human Services+24 more: $160,750 · Human Services+24 morePEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER CDC: $35,000 · OtherCOALITION OF AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN COMMUNITIES (AFRICOM): $35,000 · OtherLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED: $28,500 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT: $26,000 · Other+94 more: $640,150 · Other+94 moreCoalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom: $70,000 · Community ImprovementCoalition of …PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $57,500 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA …CEIBA INC: $47,500 · Community ImprovementCEIBA INCWhy Not Prosper Inc: $33,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosp…+5 more: $22,750 · Community Improvement+5 moreThe Common Place Inc: $63,750 · Youth DevelopmentFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PHILADELPHIA PROJECT GARCIA: $10,750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ROCK PHILLY: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPHILLY GIRLS IN MOTION INC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $4,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $93,000 · Civil RightsAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA: $66,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $16,000 · Arts & CultureLIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY INC: $50,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERS: $10,000 · EducationGREATER PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF RECOVERY EDUCATION: $6,000 · EducationMODER PATSHALA: $4,500 · EducationTREE HOUSE BOOKS: $3,500 · EducationEpiscopal Academy: $3,000 · Education+5 more: $6,850 · Education
Human Services$563,250Other$764,650Community Improvement$230,750Youth Development$120,000Civil Rights$93,000Arts & Culture$93,000Education$83,850

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 budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $93,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCoalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom: $70,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA: $66,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Common Place Inc: $63,750 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetGermantown Avenue Crisis Ministry: $62,500 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $57,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFEAST OF JUSTICE: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCEIBA INC: $47,500 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetEsperanza Immigration Legal Services: $33,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $33,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCradle of Hope Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetLEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED: $28,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $27,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT: $26,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN: $24,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCommittee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development: $21,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSELF INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITIES SOUTHEAST PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDAWN'S PLACE: $18,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $13,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROJECT: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSISTER S RETURNING HOME INC: $11,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAIDS LAW PROJECT OF PENNSYLVANIA: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA PROJECT GARCIA: $10,750 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC: $10,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNTOS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHWEST MUTUAL AID COLLECTIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW JERUSALEM NOW: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $9,500 over 3y, 1.4% 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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Henrietta Tower Wurts…The William Penn Foun…The Patricia Kind Fam…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Barra Foundation …Adam and Maria Sarah …United Way of Greater…The Gordon Charter Fo…Independence Foundati…W W Smith Charitable …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA138.5× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Independence Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust

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 Union Benevolent Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Union Benevolent Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Union Benevolent Association?

    Find your warmest path to Union Benevolent Association 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 178 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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