Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,525,500 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ($481,365). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Friends Association for the Care and Pro does
Mission
Founded in 1822, friends association is a chester county nonprofit focused on solutions to reducing and ending family homelessness. Friends strengthens our community by providing emergency housing, programs, and services that prevent and end homelessness and the independence of families with children. Our innovative programs focus on four key areas: preventing homelessness, providing emergency shelter, partnering with families to support their stability, and promoting systemic change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The nia program provides intensive case manamement with rental assistance for those affected by incarceration in chester county. This program provides holistic reentry services for women returning to their community and works towards re-establishing critical bonds with their children, and secure long-term stable housing after a period of incarceration.
$394,033 spent20% of program spendingThe eviction prevention case resolution (epcr) program stabilizes vulnerable families and individuals who are facing eviction in participating courts by providing them with free legal and social services support on the day of their eviction hearing. The program provides financial assistance to prevent evictions, and connections to long-term financial services, housing subsidies, housing partnership programs, and social supports needed to prevent future housing instability. 600 households were served in calendar year 2024 ; 3% were senior citizens;10 % were children under the age of 5; and 81% of households served resulted in a favorable tenant outcome with participatns maintaining housing. Since 2020, the program has provided a combination of services to over 1,443 households representing a total of 2,699+ individual household members[1]. [1] figures provided are as per epcr clients in programs data report from the county hmis system.
$946,207 spent48% of program spendingThe emergency housing (family center) houses families experiencing homelessness referred through the county's coordinated entry system, in one of six apartment units. Each family lives autonomously in an apartment for 90-360 days as they work with their case manager to secure permanent housing, create a housing stability case plan, increase income, and access mainstream benefits. Pregnant women and families with infants are immediately engaged with the nurse family partnership to provide education, support, and resource connections. Taking a two-generation approach, we coordinate high quality early learning access (head start, early head start) for all children under the age of 5. Children under the age of 5 make up 23% of the total population at the family center. Friends' family center is currently the only low-barrieremergency housing in the county that can house entire family units together through their time of crisis. In calendar year 2024, 77% of families moved directly to stable housing from the family center.
$439,218 spent22% of program spendingThe housing stability case management (hscm) program provides long-term case management and is available for families currently experiencing homelessness, or recently moved to permanent housing from any emergency housing in the county. This program provides continued case management support, comprehensive guidance, and resources to empower families and reduce the risk of a family's return to homelessness. Our goal is to help families not only obtain housing but to keep it.
$155,504 spent8% of program spendingThe homelessness prevention program assists families facing a housing crisis. Short-term financial assistance is combined with landlord mediation, case management and education to keep families safely housed. Services included gender-specific, trauma-informed care for women with mental health and/or substance use disorders.
$31,300 spent2% of program spendingSummer enrichment program
$2,680 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,968,942.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $3.3M to $5.5M (+65%).
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 21% · 2018 29% · 2019 37% · 2020 17% · 2021 54% · 2022 81% · 2023 81% · 2024 86% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Joyce Chester
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $97k → $354k.
12 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
67% 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 FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 41% · 2019 58% · 2020 19% · 2021 23% · 2022 40% · 2023 26% — 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
44% of FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
73% of FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $962k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO?
- FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,525,500 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ($481,365). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $2,525,500 in grants to FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO?
- UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $481,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO 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 51 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