Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA
TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $620,723 to it, the largest being STANLEY & LUCY LOPATA FOUNDATION ($131,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $621k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Travelers Aid Society of Philadelphia does
Mission
Incorporated in 1915 as Travelers Aid Society of Philadelphia to provide information, advice, guidance, protection, and shelter to travelers, families forward philadelphia continues this (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The family residence, a large residential facility located in west philadelphia, has 65 private rooms for families experiencing homelessness. We serve approximately 500 individuals each year, 60% of whom are children. We specialize in accommodating larger families and all family configurations, including female and male heads of household, two parent families, and families with male children over age 12. Along with a welcoming, clean-living space, we provide meals, focused case management, access to mental and physical health care, and job training and life skills workshops. Educational support for children includes tutoring and homework help, and grade and attendance tracking.
$3,036,804 spent62% of program spendingThe community housing program (chp) provides transitional, rapid and permanent supportive housing for families experiencing homelessness in west philadelphia. Started approximately 30 years ago, the chp has grown from 20 to 73 units of leased and owned apartments and houses. 64% of our residents are children. Eight families live in transitional housing units for 12 to 18 months while receiving focused case management services and assistance with locating and moving into permanent housing. Fifty families live in permanent supportive housing units and receive coordinated case management and supportive services while paying a small monthly fee based on their income. (continued on schedule o)
$1,770,807 spent$72,811 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe education department's primary goal is to coordinate resources and information between school and families, and provide learning supports to all children in our programs. This is accomplished through a combination of home visits, online monitoring of grades and attendance, and sponsoring programs on site at our facility during which families can interact with school staff and families forward education staff. The department also tracks child and family outcomes data and supportive services information on each family and child in order to assist them in achieving their service and educational plan goals.
$58,168 spent$16,487 earned by the program1% of program spendingThe 30th street station project is a passenger assistance booth at 30th street amtrak/septa station in west philadelphia. The booth is the historical legacy of travelers aid society, and is located in the central concourse of the station. It is staffed daily by volunteers. The volunteers provide visitors information and traveler assistance to approximately 90,000 travelers each year.
$3,334 spent$4,813 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,869,113.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $4.5M (+36%).
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 90% · 2018 87% · 2019 85% · 2020 92% · 2021 89% · 2022 90% · 2023 92% · 2024 91% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jason Miller
CEO
Board chair
London Faust
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $80k → $33k.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
54% 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 TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 56% · 2019 29% · 2020 40% · 2021 29% · 2022 36% · 2023 49% — 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
20% of TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
54% of TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $621k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$14.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: 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 TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA?
- TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $620,723 to it, the largest being STANLEY & LUCY LOPATA FOUNDATION ($131,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $620,723 in grants to TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA?
- STANLEY & LUCY LOPATA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $131,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA 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 27 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