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SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH

SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$333k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$413k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Samara the Center for Individual and Family Growth does

Mission

Intensive parenting training and childrens programs

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Intensive parenting program - a program designed to interupt intergenerational child abuse and neglect using a group process intentionally designed to nurture, support and educate parents and children while respecting their freedom and dignity. The program is engaged by the county child welfare agency to prevent children's placement in foster care and to help children return home to their biological parents when possible.

    $194,600 spent$88,741 earned by the program
    56% of program spending
  2. Prevention program - an in home visitation program with a goal of preventing families from entering the child welfare system and preventing children from being placed in foster care

    $143,407 spent$124,975 earned by the program
    41% of program spending
  3. A visitation program between children in foster care and their parents, designed to promote reunification between children and parents when possible and voluntary termination of parental rights when parents are unable to create a safe and stable home for their children.

    $7,647 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $345,654.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($453k) Expenses 100 ($434k) Net assets 100 ($82k)2019 Revenue 83 ($374k) Expenses 74 ($320k) Net assets 227 ($186k)2020 Revenue 65 ($293k) Expenses 46 ($200k) Net assets 342 ($279k)2021 Revenue 74 ($337k) Expenses 64 ($277k) Net assets 416 ($340k)2022 Revenue 127 ($575k) Expenses 80 ($347k) Net assets 695 ($568k)2023 Revenue 56 ($254k) Expenses 77 ($336k) Net assets 595 ($486k)2024 Revenue 74 ($333k) Expenses 93 ($406k) Net assets 506 ($413k)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (74)Expenses (93)Net assets (506)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $535k to $885k (+66%).

$105k
$457k
$535k
$885k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$958k
2017201920202021202220232024
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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 13% · 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
$54k
’19
$93k
’20
$61k
’21
$228k
’22
−$82k
’23
−$73k
’24
8.2
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.

2017201920202021202220232024
Listed11888876
Joined··+3+0+2+1+1
No longer listed··30222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH’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

SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH.

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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 SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

73%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH?
SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH.
Who is the largest funder of SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAMARA THE CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY GROWTH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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