· Private foundation
Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL REFUGE CHURCH | $1,800 |
| POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,245 |
| SCHUYLKILL YMCA | $1,160 |
| FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN HOSE CO 2 OF POTTSVILLE | $800 |
| SCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $800 |
| HERSHEY THEATRE GUILD | $750 |
| SCHUYLKILL AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO | $700 |
| PSP CAMP CADET TROOP L | $500 |
| PADCO | $500 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $500 |
| AVENUES | $400 |
| MINERSVILLE AREA FOOD DRIVE | $400 |
| SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER | $350 |
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 (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PFPOTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +35%
- HSHillside SPCA Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +1%
- SYSCHUYLKILL YMCA5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH CENTERone grant, 2020 · $850
- FRFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $700 · revenue +5%
- SCSCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2020 · $700 · revenue +8%
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.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Public lending library
The mission of the adams county library system (acls) is to connect people to opportunities that enrich their lives through the core values of stewardship, excellence and trustworthiness. the acls provides programming that centers on early…
The Schuylkill Valley Community Library is dedicated to providing resources and opportunities that support the literacy, technological and leisure needs of our patrons.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Public lending library
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
Form 990 - mission statement the bosler memorial library is a leading intellectual, educational, recreational, and cultural asset in cumberland county. founded in 1900, this public library serves the borough of carlisle, seven townships in…
The montour falls library creates an environment that nurtures intellectual freedom, encourages lifelong learning, offers open access to resources, supports new technologies, respects cultural diversity, and embraces the future.
The joseph t. simpson library is the community's library, responsive to needs and desires for knowledge, understanding, enrichment, entertainment, and connection.
The mission of the Sewickley Public Library is to provide lifelong learning oppurtunities to the children and adults of the greater Quaker Valley Community.
Public lending library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rye Free Reading Room and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Shenandoah Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 112 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 POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AVENUES ↗
- Who funds Hillside SPCA Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL YMCA ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS ↗
- Who funds WALK IN ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Shenandoah Inc ↗
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: Will S & Anna S Fox Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Herman Yudacufski Charitable Foundation · Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf) · Thomas J West Family Char Trust · Anna C Bohorad Trust B · Snayberger Memorial Fdn (Pf) · Schuylkill Area Community Foundation · Miles S & Anna Kiehner Memorial Trust Co Argent Trust Company · Benevolent Association of Pottsville · Comloquoy Robert and Sara S Char Fd · Ibm International 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 Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust 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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