· Private foundation
Betty I and Karl B Search
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE | $4,230 |
| OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY | $3,385 |
| DESALES UNIVERSITY | $3,385 |
| SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY | $1,100 |
| LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,100 |
| WILKES UNIVERSITY | $1,100 |
| BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY | $1,100 |
| LIBERTY UNIVERSITY | $1,100 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE | $1,100 |
| PENN STATE-MAIN CAMPUS | $1,100 |
| DESALES UNIVERSITY | $1,100 |
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $1,100 |
| WILKES UNIVERSITY | $1,100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of your 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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
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
- MUMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +40%
- BUBLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2025 · $5k
- WCWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2019 · $5k
Funded once
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $6k
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +37%
- DUDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRITone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +6%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is King's College and the most unlike its peers is Elizabethtown College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 73 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 MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Betty I and Karl B Search 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.