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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.

$206k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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$278kEducation$242kHealth$241kCommunity Improvement$174kCivil Rights$169kYouth Development$159kCrime & Legal$150kEmployment$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $156k
$7,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST UP$16,200
AFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION$15,000
GENDER JUSTICE FUND$15,000
MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT$15,000
THE ORGANIZING CENTER$15,000
WHY NOT PROSPER INC$14,500
OSHUN FAMILY CENTER$14,000
MATERNITY CARE COALITION OF PHILADE$13,000
IGNITE$13,000
LUTHERAN SETTLEMNT HOUSE$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YWCA OF TRI-COUNTY AREA: $10k → 7%CHILDREN FIRST: $15k → 22%YWCA OF TRI-COUNTY AREA: $5k → 7%PATHWAYS PA: $10k → 10%YWCA OF TRI-COUNTY AREA: $4k → 7%PATH WAYS PA: $10k → 10%ACLAMO: $5k → 7%CHILDREN FIRST: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%GENDER JUSTICE FUND: $20k → 22%GENDER JUSTICE FUND: $15k → 22%GENDER JUSTICE FUND: $15k → 22%GENDER JUSTICE FUND: $15k → 22%FIRST UP: $16k → 22%HIAS AND COUNCIL MIGRATION SERVICE: $12k → 22%HIAS AND COUNCIL MIGRATION SERVICE: $12k → 22%FIRST UP: $5k → 22%FIRST UP: $4k → 22%SEAMAAC INC: $15k → 22%SEAMAAC INC: $10k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $15k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $15k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $11k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $10k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $6k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $6k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $1k → 22%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $500 → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 38 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
38

Total granted

$1.4M
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+43%

Still filing today

74%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • Education Law Center - PA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +171%
  • ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA
    5× · 2017–2021 · $64k · revenue +755%
  • WN
    Why Not Prosper Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +324%

Funded once

  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +82%
  • PP
    PATHWAYS PA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -35%
  • SC
    She Can Win
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Philadelphia Health Services Inc

Mentoring and educational programs for female youth

Youth Development
3
Philly Black Worker Project

) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors

Civil Rights
4
Pennsylvania Women Work

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.

Human Services
5
The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania

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…

Civil Rights
6
Accessmatters

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…

Health
7
Women Against Abuse Legal Center

The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal
8
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
9
The Public Interest Law Center

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…

Crime & Legal
10
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
11
The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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12
Public Trust

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
38/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN SETTLEMNT HOUSE: $99,850 · OtherLUTHERAN SETTLEMNT HOUSELEGAL RESOURCE CTR ON VIOLENCE TWD: $72,000 · OtherLEGAL RESOURCE CTR ON VIOLENCE TWDMATERNITY CARE COALITION OF PHILADE: $57,950 · OtherMATERNITY CARE COALITION OF PHILADEWOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PR: $52,500 · OtherWOMEN'S COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PRPHILADELPHIA AREA PROJ ON SAFETY AN: $45,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA AREA PROJ ON SAFETY ANTHE ORGANIZING CENTER: $45,000 · OtherTHE ORGANIZING CENTEROSHUN FAMILY CENTER: $29,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $36,000 · OtherProject Libertad: $36,500 · Other+39 more: $320,181 · Other+39 moreGender Justice Fund: $65,000 · Human ServicesGender Justice FundABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $64,420 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION…SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUT…FIRST UP: $24,950 · Human ServicesFIRST UPHIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc: $24,000 · Human ServicesHIAS and Council Mi…WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $23,651 · Human ServicesWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE…PATHWAYS PA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS PA INCYWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $19,350 · Human ServicesYWCA TRI-COUNTY ARE…Children First PA: $17,050 · Human ServicesChildren First PA+2 more: $7,100 · Human ServicesEducation Law Center - PA: $112,857 · EducationEducation Law Ce…IGNITE: $66,400 · EducationIGNITEArtwell Collaborative Inc: $30,000 · EducationArtwell Collabor…WEREIGN INC: $10,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $12,000 · EducationGIRLS ROCK PHILLY: $53,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ROC…The Evoluer House: $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Evolu…PHILADELPHIA AREA PROJECT ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentPHILADELP…+3 more: $7,907 · Youth Development+3 moreWhy Not Prosper Inc: $52,617 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTERFAITH INC: $12,000 · Community ImprovementINDEPENDENCE BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC: $6,000 · Community ImprovementWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $20,500 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $15,500 · Civil RightsAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $15,000 · Civil RightsTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $30,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$793,981Human Services$290,521Education$241,257Youth Development$133,907Community Improvement$80,617Civil Rights$61,000Arts & Culture$60,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEducation Law Center - PA: $112,857 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetIGNITE: $66,400 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGender Justice Fund: $65,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $64,420 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetGIRLS ROCK PHILLY: $53,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $52,617 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetThe Evoluer House: $38,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetProject Libertad: $36,500 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $36,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA PROJECT ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH: $35,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $30,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetArtwell Collaborative Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetOSHUN FAMILY CENTER: $29,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER: $25,425 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFIRST UP: $24,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $23,651 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS PA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $19,350 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChildren First PA: $17,050 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $16,246 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $14,512 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $13,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Nurse-Led Care Consortium: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPower of Paint Art Academy & Management: $11,200 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetINDEPENDENCE BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS CAMPAIGN INTERNATIONAL: $9,615 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGIRLS FIRST: $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBread and Roses Community Fund: $6,590 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA WORKS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetACLAMO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL DEVELOP IT: $4,950 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPHOENIXVILLE WOMENS OUTREACH: $3,750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE: $3,020 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTERS INC: $2,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $2,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Artwell Collaborative 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 PATHWAYS PA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAZZONI CENTER ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…The William Penn Foun…The Patricia Kind Fam…United Way of Greater…Bread and Roses Commu…Independence Foundati…Samuel S Fels FundThe Barra Foundation …Claneil Foundation IncHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Independence Public M…Womens Way
The Philadelphia FoundationPA71× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Valentine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valentine Foundation. 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 →median 7%
  • Girl Develop It: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report 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 Valentine Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Valentine 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 83 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home