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Benevolent Association of Pottsville

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$124kHuman Services$29kArts & Culture$25kYouth Development$14kCommunity Improvement$8kRecreation & Sports$8kFood & Nutrition$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$775k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TREMONT AREA FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
Trinity Episcopal Summer Reading Ca$1,000
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRAR$700
FRACKVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER: $3k → 12%SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER: $3k → 12%Schuylkill Women in Crisis: $2k → 12%Schuylkill Women in Crisis: $2k → 12%SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER: $2k → 12%Schuylkill Women in Crisis: $2k → 12%SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER: $2k → 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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$180k · 25 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
27

Total granted

$180k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+22%

Still filing today

32%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PF
    POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +12%
  • SW
    SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +12%
  • SU
    SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY
    3× · 2019–2022 · $3k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • SC
    Schuylkill County Special Olympics
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • OD
    Open Door Project
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -70%
  • TS
    The Salvation Army Pottsville Corps
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Claysburg Area Public Library Inc

Library services to the community

Education
2
Fredericktown Area Public Library

Public library

Education
3
Burrell Township Library

Public library service

Arts & Culture
4
Monaca Public Library

To provide Library Services to the general public.

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5
Albion Area Public Library

Operation of non-profit public library in albion, pa

Education
6
Sinclairville Free Library

Public library

Education
7
Roaring Spring Community Library Association

To provide a free public library in roaring spring, blair county, pa

Education
8
Leechburg Public Library

Operation of local library

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9
Swaney Memorial Library

Library for tri-state area residents

—
10
Johnsonburg Public Library

Provide library services to residents of the johnsonburg, pa area

—
11
Wyalusing Public Library

Provide public library services for wyalusing, pennsylvania and surrounding areas to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge and strengthen communities.

Education
12
Stony Creek Free Library

Public Library

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schuylkill Haven Free Public Library; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $55,000 · OtherPOTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARYMajestic Theatre Organization: $18,000 · OtherMajestic Theatre OrganizationORWIGSBURG LIBRARY: $16,100 · OtherORWIGSBURG LIBRARYNURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $10,975 · OtherNURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIPMAHANOY CITY LIBRARY: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · Other+42 more: $75,270 · Other+42 moreSCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS: $13,500 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE STATE LITERACY ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · EducationTAMAQUA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,000 · EducationTRI-VALLEY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,500 · EducationCHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,050 · EducationMINERSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $600 · EducationOpen Door Project: $2,500 · Community ImprovementDUSTINS ADVENTURELAND: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCHUYLKILL BALLET THEATRE: $500 · Arts & CultureGAUDENZIA INC: $400 · Health
Other$193,345Human Services$13,500Education$7,650Community Improvement$2,500Youth Development$2,000Arts & Culture$500Health$400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $55,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS: $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRINGTOWN AREA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $2,900 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOpen Door Project: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKEYSTONE STATE LITERACY ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTAMAQUA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDUSTINS ADVENTURELAND: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTRI-VALLEY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSCHUYLKILL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCHUYLKILL HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRACKVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPORT CARBON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $600 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMINERSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSCHUYLKILL BALLET THEATRE: $500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% 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 POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS ↗
  • Who funds SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds RINGTOWN AREA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Open Door Project ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE STATE LITERACY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TAMAQUA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds DUSTINS ADVENTURELAND ↗
  • Who funds TRI-VALLEY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds SCHUYLKILL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SCHUYLKILL HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACKVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗

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.

Snayberger Memorial F…Ppl FoundationBen D Spagolio Charit…Schuylkill Area Commu…Herman Yudacufski Cha…Will S & Anna S Fox F…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Snayberger Memorial Fdn (Pf)NY32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Benevolent Association of Pottsville funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benevolent Association of Pottsville. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Benevolent Association of Pottsville 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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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