Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SEARCH ANGELS
SEARCH ANGELS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,309 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Search Angels does
Mission
The Search Angels organization was established to provide support, advice, and help, using traditional search and genetic genealogy to benefit adoptees with their search, and ultimately gain knowledge of their biological family tree (ancestry).
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Advise and help adoptees with their search and knowledge of their biological family tree
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $63.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 SEARCH ANGELS’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
SEARCH ANGELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 SEARCH ANGELS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of SEARCH ANGELS'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. Of the $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SEARCH ANGELS receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,082 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like SEARCH ANGELS
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.
Public support
0%
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 SEARCH ANGELS: 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 SEARCH ANGELS?
- SEARCH ANGELS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,309 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEARCH ANGELS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $58,309 in grants to SEARCH ANGELS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEARCH ANGELS?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEARCH ANGELS 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 5 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