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FRIENDSHIP TABLE

FRIENDSHIP TABLE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,937 to it, the largest being PHILO & SARAH BLAISDELL FOUNDATION ($115,787). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$259k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$253k
Net assets
$532k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Friendship Table does

Mission

Friendship Table served 54538 meals in 2025 to men, women, youth, children and infants monday through friday 3:00 to 5:00 pm.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Friendship Table served 54538 meals in 2025 to men, women, youth, children and infants monday through friday from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.

    $202,382 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $202,382.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($164k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 100 ($122k)2018 Revenue 65 ($107k) Expenses 103 ($101k) Net assets 104 ($127k)2019 Revenue 54 ($89k) Expenses 110 ($109k) Net assets 88 ($107k)2020 Revenue 134 ($220k) Expenses 114 ($112k) Net assets 177 ($215k)2021 Revenue 119 ($194k) Expenses 144 ($142k) Net assets 220 ($268k)2022 Revenue 111 ($182k) Expenses 198 ($195k) Net assets 210 ($255k)2023 Revenue 102 ($167k) Expenses 185 ($182k) Net assets 197 ($240k)2024 Revenue 163 ($267k) Expenses 175 ($172k) Net assets 275 ($334k)2025 Revenue 158 ($259k) Expenses 206 ($202k) Net assets 437 ($532k)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (206)Net assets (437)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $335k to $532k (+59%).

$123k
$128k
$108k
$216k
$269k
$256k
$242k
$335k
$532k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of FRIENDSHIP TABLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$65k
’17
$6k
’18
−$20k
’19
$108k
’20
$53k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$16k
’23
$95k
’24
$56k
’25
6.2
months of
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

Joel Meyer

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed44441313
Joined·+2+0+0+10+0
No longer listed·20010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $17k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 TABLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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 TABLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 66% · 2019 91% · 2020 57% · 2021 76% · 2022 72% · 2023 65% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of FRIENDSHIP TABLE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDSHIP TABLE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDSHIP TABLE: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDSHIP TABLE?
FRIENDSHIP TABLE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,937 to it, the largest being PHILO & SARAH BLAISDELL FOUNDATION ($115,787). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDSHIP TABLE have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $252,937 in grants to FRIENDSHIP TABLE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDSHIP TABLE?
PHILO & SARAH BLAISDELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,787 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDSHIP TABLE 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 8 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