Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY
CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,810,588 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($334,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $117k
What Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly does
Mission
The mission of the Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (carie) is to promote the well-being, rights, and autonomy of older adults through advocacy, education, and action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The pennsylvania senior medicare patrol (pa-smp) is one of 54 federally created and funded statewide programs fighting fraud, abuse, and errors in medicare and medicaid. Through outreach, peer-education, and one-on-one advocacy, carie's pa-smp empowers medicare and medicaid beneficiaries to become more engaged in their health care. Following a method of prevent, detect, and report, the smp teaches beneficiaries, their families, and caregivers how to protect their personal information, detect potential problems, and report any suspected issues. Through the program's peer-to-peer education model, medicare beneficiaries are engaged to serve as volunteers, teaching their peers about health care fraud and its prevention.
$1,059,808 spent40% of program spendingThe long-term care ombudsman program provides advocacy for older adults in long term care settings in philadelphia counties to long-term care settings including nursing facilities, assisted living, licensed personal care homes, older adult day centers, domiciliary care homes, and life programs. Ombudsman staff educate residents about their rights and investigate and seek to resolve complaints on behalf of elders receiving long-term care services. In addition, staff support the volunteer ombudsman program and pennsylvania's empowered expert residents (peers), specially trained long-term care consumers who work closely with the ombudsman to address resident's rights within their facility. Ombudsman volunteers provide technical assistance to resident council presidents and other residents, educate visitors and staff about resident's rights and act as liaison between residents and ombudsman staff to resolve complaints.
$865,865 spent$619,998 earned by the program33% of program spendingThe providing advocacy for victimized elders (pave) program was created in 2003 to support access to justice for elder philadelphia victims of crime and abuse. Staff provide court accompaniment, assistance completing victim compensation applications and impact statements, trauma-informed short-term counseling when requested and referrals as needed. During fy25 the pave program served numerous elders, informing victims of their rights, educating them about the criminal justice system, and providing individual advocacy for victims of crime and abuse. In addition, staff coordinate the elderly victims emergency security fund (evesf) through which carie arranges and pays for re-securing the damage to the homes of low-income elder victims of crime and abuse in philadelphia. During fy25 funds were used to replace or re-key locks, repair or replace doors, and replace windows to prevent re victimization of the resident(s). The evesf also provides emergency help with home needs that we become aware of through our helpline, and which present imminent risk to the health of the low-income homeowner.
$414,326 spent16% of program spendingCarie's oldest program is the carie line, a telephone helpline which quickly became recognized throughout the region as a source of assistance and advocacy for elders, caregivers and professionals seeking to resolve a wide range of problems and concerns older adults were facing. Since its inception, the helpline has expanded to be accessible online (carie online) and in community settings (carie onsite). Staff continue to work to resolve any challenge an elder is facing including access to health care or health care coverage, lack of transportation, a need for nutritional support, financial insecurity, inadequate housing and homelessness, elder abuse and neglect, guardianship and more. In addition to providing individual assistance and advocacy, staff develop and present community education and outreach programs that inform elders and caregivers on issues of interest and concern for older adults.
$279,794 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,619,793.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $640k to $1.9M (+205%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 78% · 2018 63% · 2019 81% · 2020 76% · 2021 76% · 2022 82% · 2023 85% · 2024 64% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Joan Davitt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $118k → $170k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 63% · 2019 53% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY?
- CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,810,588 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($334,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,810,588 in grants to CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $334,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing