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Valentine Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UP | $16,200 |
| AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION | $15,000 |
| MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| GENDER JUSTICE FUND | $15,000 |
| THE ORGANIZING CENTER | $15,000 |
| WHY NOT PROSPER INC | $14,500 |
| OSHUN FAMILY CENTER | $14,000 |
| LUTHERAN SETTLEMNT HOUSE | $13,000 |
| MATERNITY CARE COALITION OF PHILADE | $13,000 |
| IGNITE | $13,000 |
| WOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PR | $12,500 |
| EDUCATION LAW CENTER | $8,000 |
| HEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA | $7,000 |
| ACLAMO | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $4,636 |
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 (FY17–24, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
Education Law Center - PA8× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +199%
ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA5× · 2017–2021 · $64k · revenue +755%- WNWhy Not Prosper Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +324%
Funded once
- WMWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +82%
- PPPATHWAYS PA INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -35%
- SCShe Can Winone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
Mentoring and educational programs for female youth
) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors
The mission of pennsylvania women work is to empower women to advance in their careers and achieve self-sufficiency through life-changing career development programs and mentorship.
The Women and Girls Foundation (WGF) is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania engaged in statewide programming and policy work. The mission of WGF is to achieve equality for women and girls, now and for generations to…
Accessmatters' mission is to protect, expand, and enhance access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. accessmatters fulfills its mission by providing services and information directly to people, by…
The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.
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…
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gender Justice Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 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. 58 of the 83 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 Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds Gender Justice Fund ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ROCK PHILLY ↗
- Who funds Why Not Prosper Inc ↗
- Who funds The Evoluer House ↗
- Who funds Project Libertad ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA AREA PROJECT ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Artwell Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds OSHUN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIORLAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST UP ↗
- Who funds HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MAZZONI CENTER ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS PA INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA ↗
- Who funds Children First PA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Bread and Roses Community Fund · Independence Foundation · Samuel S Fels Fund · The Barra Foundation Inc · Claneil Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc · Womens Way
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 Valentine 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.
- Girl Develop It — 7% 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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