Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,848,439 to it, the largest being ALLONE FOUNDATION ($978,100). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Countiesshared funderslocal
- Nkc Family Foundationportfolio match
- Community Partnership for Children Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 12% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of FRIENDSHIP HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $140k → $416k.
1 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 69% · 2019 84% · 2020 85% · 2021 67% · 2022 71% · 2023 80% — 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
56% of FRIENDSHIP HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
93% of FRIENDSHIP HOUSE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 24 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Countiesshared funderslocalPA · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 47 organizations near you
- Nkc Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Partnership for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Based Care of Brevard Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Childnet Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Doz Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Room at the Inn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Radiology Inc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert and Faye Thieneman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elite Homes Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FRIENDSHIP HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
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 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friendship House 1873 · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE?
- FRIENDSHIP HOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,848,439 to it, the largest being ALLONE FOUNDATION ($978,100). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDSHIP HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,848,439 in grants to FRIENDSHIP HOUSE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDSHIP HOUSE?
- ALLONE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $978,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDSHIP HOUSE 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.
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 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing