GrantmakersPennsylvania

Accessmatters

Philadelphia, PA · EIN 23-1878446. Reported 199 grants totalling $35.5M to 60 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

60organizations funded
$64,975median reported grant
$35.5Mgranted, 2020-2023
91%of grantees funded again the next year
25%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Accessmatters, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E42Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 25% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 91% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $64,975. Half of what it reported fell between $28,108 and $174,143; the smallest was $4,312 and the largest $2,623,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
31 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
40 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
31 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
48 grants
$250,000 Or More
33 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
City of Philadelphia - Ambulatory Health ServicesPhiladelphia, PA$8,759,694442023
Drexel University - St Christopher HospitalPhiladelphia, PA$3,138,849442023
Planned Parenthood Southeastern PaPhiladelphia, PA$2,818,851442023
Temple Faculty Practice Plan IncPhiladelphia, PA$2,170,871542023
The Childrens Hospital of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$2,154,474642023
Resources for Human Development IncPhiladelphia, PA$2,024,684442023
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$1,472,2081342023
Planned Parenthood KeystoneAllentown, PA$1,230,696442023
Public Health Management CorporationPhiladelphia, PA$1,006,913442023
Bebashi - Transition to HopePhiladelphia, PA$997,978442023
Education-Plus IncPhiladelphia, PA$833,345442023
Lch Health and Community ServicesKennett Sq, PA$819,082542023
Project HomePhiladelphia, PA$766,932442023
Congreso De Latinos Unidos IncPhiladelphia, PA$695,368442023
Newlands HealthPhiladelphia, PA$624,220442023
Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkPhiladelphia, PA$525,285442023
Action WellnessPhiladelphia, PA$519,728442023
Thomas Jefferson UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$447,381442023
Health Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania IncPhiladelphia, PA$439,931442023
Family Health Council of Central Pa IncCamp Hill, PA$386,207442023
Chespenn Health ServicesEddystone, PA$382,266442023
Philadelphia FightPhiladelphia, PA$295,391442023
Puentes De SaludPhiladelphia, PA$282,254442023
Valley Youth House CommitteeBethlehem, PA$205,244442023
Mazzoni CenterPhiladelphia, PA$203,678542023
Urban Health Solutions IncPhiladelphia, PA$185,887442023
African Family Health Organization AfahoPhiladelphia, PA$179,975442023
Adagio Health IncPittsburgh, PA$174,503222021
The American Oncologic HospitalPhiladelphia, PA$134,804442023
Co County Wellness ServicesReading, PA$134,110442023
Youth AlternativesOil City, PA$128,446442023
Maternal & Family Health Services IncWilkes Barre, PA$122,586442023
The Foundation for Delaware CountyMedia, PA$113,606222023
Cornerstone Care IncGreensboro, PA$110,486332022
Family Services of Beaver CountyNew Brighton, PA$102,365332022
Clinical Care Associates of the University of Pennsylvania HealthPhiladelphia, PA$97,821442023
Prospect CrozerBroomall, PA$95,296442023
Bucks County Health Improvement PartnershipNewtown, PA$79,594222023
Northeast Treatment Centers IncPhiladelphia, PA$67,329442023
Tabor Services IncDoylestown, PA$65,552332023
Turning Points for ChildrenPhiladelphia, PA$65,000442023
University of Pittsburgh Physicans on Behalf of ItsPittsburgh, PA$57,400222021
Lutheran Social Mission Society of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$53,867222022
Crozer-Chester Medical CenterMedia, PA$53,304112020
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown, PA$52,019332023
Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia, PA$37,662332022
Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkPhiladelphia, PA$32,533332023
Greater Philadelphia Health ActionPhiladelphia, PA$28,439442023
Healthy Teen Network IncTakoma Park, MD$28,108112021
Abington Memorial HospitalAbington, PA$22,357112020
Fayette County Community Action Agency IncUniontown, PA$22,244112020
Covenant House Health ServicesPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
Breastfeeding Resource CenterAbington, PA$15,000112020
National Nurse-Led Care ConsortiumPhiladelphia, PA$14,999112020
Wayne Memorial Community Health CentersHonesdale, PA$14,142112020
Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$9,913112020
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$8,967112023
Libertae IncorporatedBensalem, PA$7,500112021
Main Line HealthcareRadnor, PA$7,500112020
Squirrel Hill Health CenterPittsburgh, PA$4,903112020

47 of 60 (78%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
27 orgs
Human Services
9 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Mental Health
3 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Medical Research
1 org
Civil Rights
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202058$9,065,118$54,820
202148$9,325,171$83,618
202247$7,928,409$48,014
202346$9,231,049$71,316

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

100% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Pennsylvania
$35.5M
Maryland
$28K

Down to the city

Philadelphia, PA
$31.1M
Allentown, PA
$1.2M
Kennett Sq, PA
$819K
Camp Hill, PA
$386K
Eddystone, PA
$382K
Pittsburgh, PA
$246K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Philadelphia Foundation21 shared recipientsThe William Penn Foundation18 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program17 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $64,975 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Accessmatters's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 46 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1700 Market St 1540, Philadelphia, PA, 19103.

EIN 23-1878446 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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