How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Pennsylvania?

Start with the funders already giving to human services in Pennsylvania, currently Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Pennsylvania from out of state.

Who is the largest human services funder in Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence gives the most to human services organizations in Pennsylvania, $236M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to human services in Pennsylvania?

$2.5B reached 2,430 human services organizations in Pennsylvania, from 5,117 funders. 75% came from funders also based in Pennsylvania.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Pennsylvania · Human services

Who funds human services in Pennsylvania

Human services funding in Pennsylvania is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Allied Services Foundation leads, and the money reaches 2,430 groups.

$2.5B

granted

2,430

organizations

75%

from in-state

The short version

5,117 funders gave $2.5B to 2,430 human services organizations in Pennsylvania across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
75% of that came from funders also based in Pennsylvania; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of human services in Pennsylvania is Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, at $236M.
The human services organization drawing the most is Allied Services Foundation, at $76M.

Largest funders of human services in Pennsylvania

The funders giving the most to human services organizations in Pennsylvania, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence$236M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$79M 3National Philanthropic Trust$55M 4Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia$44M 5Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh$42M 6Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$37M 7Allied Services Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine$36M 8The Pittsburgh Foundation$34M 9US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc$33M 10The William Penn Foundation$32M

Human services organizations in Pennsylvania that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

2,420 other human services organizations$2.1B

Allied Services Foundation$76M

How to find human services funders in Pennsylvania

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Start with the funders already active in Pennsylvania
The funders giving the most to human services in Pennsylvania are Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust. A funder already writing human services checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
25% of human services money in Pennsylvania comes from funders elsewhere, so national human services funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Pennsylvania.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Pennsylvania?: Start with the funders already giving to human services in Pennsylvania, currently Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Pennsylvania from out of state.
Who is the largest human services funder in Pennsylvania?: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence gives the most to human services organizations in Pennsylvania, $236M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to human services in Pennsylvania?: $2.5B reached 2,430 human services organizations in Pennsylvania, from 5,117 funders. 75% came from funders also based in Pennsylvania.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.