· Private foundation
Brook Trout Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASONIC VILLAGES GRAND LODGE OF PA | $68,250 |
| CHILDRENS DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC | $18,000 |
| HARRISBURG AREA FOOD PANTRY | $12,625 |
| BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG | $5,625 |
| MISS BOBBIS PLACE INC | $5,500 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $5,000 |
| DAUPHIN COUNTY CASA | $5,000 |
| GOD LUV YA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| ZION EVAN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
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 (FY22–26, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -57% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Save The Children Federation Inc6× · 2021–2026 · $30k · revenue +1%- BMBETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC6× · 2021–2026 · $30k · revenue +48%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- HRHARRISBURG RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -67%
- VOVETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -57%
- HAHARRISBURG AREA FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2024 · $7k
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.
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
Penn state health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and equitable care; educates and trains (continued…
Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Ronald mcdonald house charities of central pa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Pennyslvania partnerships for children is a strong, effective, and trusted voice for improving the health, education, and well being of the children and youth in pennsylvania.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
Mshmc's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate, culturally responsive and equitable care, educate and trains healthcare…
To advocate for and provide services to pennsylvania's hospitals and health systems to advance high-quality accessible and financially sustainable health care.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethesda Mission of Harrisburg Inc and the most unlike its peers is Miss Bobbis Place Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 29 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 CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MISS BOBBIS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ORDER OF DEMOLAY IN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds God Luv Ya Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds PENN STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · United Way of the Capital Region · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Brook Trout 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.