· Private foundation
Afr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $107,000 |
| CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| LB SMITH ESTATE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD | $10,000 |
| BETHESDA MISSION | $7,500 |
| CAMP CURTAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CAMP HILL FIRE CO 1 | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WEST SHORE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY CHECK CENTER | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA | $5,000 |
| HOMELAND HOSPICE | $3,000 |
| HARRISBURG CORAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CJCLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +9%
- LBL B SMITH ESTATE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +26%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HAHarrisburg Area Riverboat Socione grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -81%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BMBERKS MILITARY HISTORY MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +118%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public
To preserve and promote the history of cambria county through its museum collections, library and archives
Our mission is to advocate for stewardship of Harrisburg architectural heritage and promote economic development that respects our cultural legacy
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
Through disciplined preparation and thoughtful development of their repertoire, the harrisburg singers strive to enrich their listeners with experiences they will long remember and look forward to enjoying again. since 1984, the harrisburg…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Harrisburg Area Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds L B SMITH ESTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci ↗
- Who funds Open Stage of Harrisburg ↗
- Who funds HOMELAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WEST SHORE MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEGANCE AT HERSHEY ↗
- Who funds ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds BERKS MILITARY HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRISBURG AREA INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hall Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · United Way of the Capital Region · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Afr Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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