· Private foundation
Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL REFUGE CHURCH | $1,800 |
| POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,245 |
| SCHUYLKILL YMCA | $1,160 |
| SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| SCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $800 |
| AMERICAN HOSE CO 2 OF POTTSVILLE | $800 |
| HERSHEY THEATRE GUILD | $750 |
| SCHUYLKILL AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO | $700 |
| PSP CAMP CADET TROOP L | $500 |
| PADCO | $500 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MINERSVILLE AREA FOOD DRIVE | $400 |
| AVENUES | $400 |
| SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER | $350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +51%
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 +17%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 112 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Shenandoah Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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