· Private foundation
Benevolent Association of Pottsville
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| Majestic Theatre Organization | $3,500 |
| SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER | $3,000 |
| Shanandoah Valley Band Boosters Inc | $2,500 |
| St Joseph's Center for Special Lear | $2,500 |
| ORWIGSBURG LIBRARY | $2,100 |
| Schuylkill Coounty Historical Socie | $2,080 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| RINGTOWN AREA LIBRARY ASSOC | $1,500 |
| North Schuylkill Band Boosters Asso | $1,300 |
| MAHANOY CITY LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| Trinity Episcopal Summer Reading Ca | $1,000 |
| TREMONT AREA FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| SCHUYLKILL HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRAR | $700 |
| FRACKVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $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 (FY18–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +12%
- SWSCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS7× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +12%
- SUSCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY3× · 2019–2022 · $3k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- ODOpen Door Projectone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -70%
- SCSchuylkill County Special Olympicsone grant, 2019 · $3k
- TSThe Salvation Army Pottsville Corpsone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Library services to the community
Public library
Public library service
To provide Library Services to the general public.
Operation of non-profit public library in albion, pa
Public library
To provide a free public library in roaring spring, blair county, pa
Operation of local library
Library for tri-state area residents
Provide library services to residents of the johnsonburg, pa area
Provide public library services for wyalusing, pennsylvania and surrounding areas to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge and strengthen communities.
Public Library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schuylkill Haven Free Public Library and the most unlike its peers is Dustins Adventureland. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
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 58 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 SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds RINGTOWN AREA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE STATE LITERACY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Open Door Project ↗
- Who funds TAMAQUA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DUSTINS ADVENTURELAND ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRI-VALLEY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FRACKVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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: Snayberger Memorial Fdn (Pf) · Ppl Foundation · Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust · Schuylkill Area Community Foundation · Herman Yudacufski Charitable Foundation · Will S & Anna S Fox Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Benevolent Association of Pottsville 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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