Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW
PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,136,302 to it, the largest being THE MCLELLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($530,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Pennsylvania Home of the Sparrow does
Mission
To partner with women facing homelessness to secure housing, achieve long- term stability, and chart new paths for their futures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide housing and educational programs for on the brink of being homeless women and children to help them achieve their goals to become securely housed and financially stable and self-sufficient. Programs include: supportive housing, providing rental subsidies, eviction prevention services, shared housing, pre-senior bridge housing and rental support, women's re-entry assessment programs (wrap), graduate support, life skills training and budgeting skills education.
$1,261,410 spent$47,159 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,261,410.
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 2018 to 2019, from $808k to $1.5M (+91%).
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 8% · 2018 23% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 22% · 2022 13% · 2023 11% · 2024 15% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $183k → $556k.
13 of 72 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 PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
45% 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 PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 11% · 2019 29% · 2020 35% · 2021 26% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% — 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
47% of PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
67% of PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: 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 PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW?
- PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,136,302 to it, the largest being THE MCLELLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($530,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $3,136,302 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW?
- THE MCLELLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW 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 72 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing