Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION
PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,235 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($25,447). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Irene C Shea Foundationshared funders
- Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issuesportfolio match
- Scholarship America 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.
23% of PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $32k → $22k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
48% 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 PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 55% · 2019 98% · 2020 52% · 2021 96% · 2022 74% · 2023 34% — 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
33% of PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
88% of PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Irene C Shea Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
- Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issuesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholarship America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cfleadsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John 316 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Davey Company Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ken & Gala White Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humana Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walker Corporate Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ernest M Hodge Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oracle Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dechomai 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.
Organizations like PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION
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
17% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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 5 related entities
- Partners for Quality Inc · exempt
- Citizen Care Inc · exempt
- Allegheny Children's Initiative Inc · exempt
- Lifeways Inc Dba Exceptional Adventures · exempt
- Milestone Centers Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION: 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 PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION?
- PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,235 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($25,447). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $149,235 in grants to PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION?
- THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $25,447 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION 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 13funders 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