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Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$148k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$7.3MHealth$1.9MHuman Services$1.8MReligion$1.7MFood & Nutrition$831kArts & Culture$704kHousing & Shelter$638kPublic Safety & Disaster$475kOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $2.1M
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK$148,000
THE SALVATION ARMY HARRISBURG$125,000
PENN STATE HARRISBURG$125,000
THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG$100,000
HAMILTON HEALTH CENTER$100,000
CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT$100,000
HEREDITARY DISEASE FOUNDATION$100,000
DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD$100,000
ST STEPHEN'S SCHOOL$100,000
MIDWEST FOOD BANK PA$98,000
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITED$85,000
BREAKING THE CHAINZ$80,000
TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL$75,000
BISHOP MCDEVITT HIGH SCHOOL$75,000
VETERANS OUTREACH OF PA$65,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY AID: $25k → 9%BRIDGE OF HOPE: $3k → 9%GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $10k → 8%MIDWEST FOOD BANK-PENNSYLVANIA: $15k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $125k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $100k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $100k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $100k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $90k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $90k → 12%YMCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $50k → 12%YMCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $50k → 12%YMCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $50k → 12%YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $50k → 12%AMIRACLE4SURE INC: $30k → 12%AMIRACLE4SURE INC: $25k → 12%AMIRACLE4SURE INC: $15k → 12%AMIRACLE4SURE INC: $10k → 12%AMIRACLE4SURE INC: $10k → 12%AMIRACLE4SURE INC: $6k → 12%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PA: $10k → 12%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PA: $10k → 12%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PA: $10k → 12%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 12%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 12%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PA: $6k → 12%PAXTON MINISTRIES: $25k → 12%PAXTON MINISTRIES: $25k → 12%PAXTON MINISTRIES: $20k → 12%PAXTON MINISTRIES: $18k → 12%PAXTON MINISTRIES: $18k → 12%PAXTON MINISTRIES: $16k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
VA
MD
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 97 repeat orgs$969k to everyone else

97 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
27

Total granted

$17M
$889k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+33%

Still filing today

54%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $598k · revenue +20%
  • HD
    HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $475k · revenue +1%
  • AH
    ALLISON HILL COMMUNITY MINISTRY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +104% · 93% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $190k
  • MC
    MANADA CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2024 · $165k · revenue 0%
  • PS
    PENN STATE MINDY SUE NESE SCHOLARSHI
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center

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…

Health
2
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

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.

Health
3
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
4
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
7
Upmc Williamsport

UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…

Health
8
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center

The mission of penn state health holy spirit medical center is to nurture the healing ministry of the church, supported by education and research. fidelity to the gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we create…

Health
9
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
10
Harcum College

Harcum college provides its students with an opportunity for outstanding academic, career, and life preparation. we teach, mentor, and prepare students for success in their chosen professions in an experiential environment. harcum's core…

Education
11
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
12
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

See schedule othe harrisburg university of science and technology offers innovative academic and research programs in science and technology that respond to local and global needs. the institution fosters a diverse community of learners,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is AMIRACLE4SURE Inc; the most unlike its peers is Robert Matthew Jackson Veterans Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 131 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY HARRISBURG: $655,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY HARRISBURGPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · OtherCENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $600,000 · OtherST STEPHEN'S SCHOOL: $600,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $505,000 · OtherBETHESDA MISSION: $500,000 · OtherTRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $450,000 · OtherBISHOP MCDEVITT HIGH SCHOOL: $450,000 · Other+81 more: $7,609,000 · Other+81 moreTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG: $600,000 · EducationTHE NATIVITY SCH…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $300,000 · EducationUniversity of No…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVER…MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSI…LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationLEBANON VALLEY C…LIVINGWELL INSTITUTE: $170,000 · EducationLIVINGWELL INSTI…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST…THE HILL SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOLHOOD COLLEGE: $120,000 · EducationELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationTHE CAPITAL REGION LITERACY COUNCIL: $90,000 · Education+2 more: $105,000 · EducationHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $475,000 · HealthHAMILTON HEALTH CENTER INC: $350,000 · HealthCONTACT HELPLINE: $120,000 · HealthCHRISTIAN RECOVERY AFTERCARE MINISTRY INC: $90,000 · HealthUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC: $70,000 · HealthHOMELAND CENTER: $60,000 · Health+3 more: $55,000 · HealthDOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $605,000 · Human ServicesYWCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $200,000 · Human ServicesPAXTON STREET HOME BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: $122,000 · Human ServicesAMIRACLE4SURE INC: $96,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $56,000 · Human Services+4 more: $55,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $598,000 · Food & NutritionHISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY: $240,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHarrisburg Area Riverboat Soci: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHARRISBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE THEATRE HARRISBURG: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $14,000 · Arts & CultureCamp Curtin Learning Community: $290,000 · Community ImprovementWILDHEART: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$11,969,000Education$2,685,000Health$1,295,000Human Services$1,134,500Food & Nutrition$598,000Arts & Culture$329,000Community Improvement$310,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $605,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG: $600,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $598,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $475,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetALLISON HILL COMMUNITY MINISTRY: $380,000 over 6y, 93% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH CENTER INC: $350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARRISBURG ACADEMY: $300,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA: $290,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetCamp Curtin Learning Community: $290,000 over 6y, 89% of budgetBEACON CLINIC FOR HEALTH AND HOPE: $265,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY: $240,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetYWCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBreaking The Chainz Inc: $190,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetLIVINGWELL INSTITUTE: $170,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetMANADA CONSERVANCY: $165,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC: $155,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG: $150,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetPAXTON STREET HOME BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: $122,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $120,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetCONTACT HELPLINE: $120,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetHOOD COLLEGE: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART: $100,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetAMIRACLE4SURE INC: $96,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetLINGLESTOWN FIRE COMPANY: $90,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN RECOVERY AFTERCARE MINISTRY INC: $90,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetPROGRESS FIRE COMPANY: $90,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetPaxtonia Fire Company: $90,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetTHE CAPITAL REGION LITERACY COUNCIL: $90,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetHARRISBURG FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC: $75,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC: $70,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $69,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOMELAND CENTER: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $56,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY AID INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLISON HILL COMMUNITY MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HARRISBURG ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Camp Curtin Learning Community ↗
  • Who funds BEACON CLINIC FOR HEALTH AND HOPE ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
  • Who funds Breaking The Chainz Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIVINGWELL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MANADA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Foundation for En…United Way of the Cap…John Crain Kunkel Fou…McCormick Family Fdn …Joseph T and Helen M …Hall FoundationThe Donald B and Doro…Kenneth Bankert Found…Schwab-Silfen Foundat…Anne & Philip Glatfel…Central Pennsylvania …The S Wilson and Grac…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA66.8× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Hall Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 131 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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