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Ar Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUDERTON AREA COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $4,000 |
| KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| HARLEYSVILLE AREA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC | $1,000 |
| PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| TELFORD DIVING & RESCUE UNIT | $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 (FY17–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- SASOUDERTON AREA COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC6× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +130%
- HAHARLEYSVILLE AREA EMERGENCY MEDICAL6× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +121%
- PVPERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 14× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- RARICHARD AND DOREEN D PAYNTON '52 ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $1k
- PHPITT HOPKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $750 · revenue +100%
- NPNORTH PENN YMCAone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
Promote fire safety and provide fire protection.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Provide fire protection and non-transport BLS medical.
Volunteer fire company
To augment volunteer fire fighting and emergency medical services provided to harford county, maryland.
Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services
To provide professional fire and rescue services to the residents of spring and adams township.
To provide fire protection services to the general public.
The Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department provides both fire and ambulance response services in the area of Tidioute, Pennsylvania.
Volunteer fire department
None
Volunteer fire company providing fire protection and emergency rescue services to hardy county, wv
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keystone Opportunity Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cybersonics Technology Team 103. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 Cybersonics Technology Team 103 ↗
- Who funds SOUDERTON AREA COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEYSVILLE AREA EMERGENCY MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds PERSEVERANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1 ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TELFORD DIVING RESCUE UNIT ↗
- Who funds HARLEYSVILLE COMMUNITY FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SENIOR ADULT ACTIVITY CENTER OF INDIAN VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PITT HOPKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Keller Charitable Foundation Inc · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ar Charitable Foundation 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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