· Private foundation
Browning Ida W Tr U W
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNON ORGANIZATION | $11,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG | $9,000 |
| BRETHREN COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| UNITED FRONT ORGANIZATION INC | $3,000 |
| SECOND CITY CHURCH | $2,000 |
| THE JOSHUA GROUP | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- POPENNON ORGANIZATION8× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue +89%
- TNTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG4× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +32%
- SSST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL6× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SPST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $8k
- HFHARRISBURG FIRST CHURCH OF THE BRETHRENone grant, 2024 · $8k
- LWLIVING WATER COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
Peniel drug and alcohol residential treatment facility's primary purpose is to provide a christian drug and alcohol rehabilitation program with facilities in johnstown, pennsylvania.
The mission of pa treatment & healing is to guide people on a path to change through quality counseling, treatment and education. this is accomplished by providing a comprehensive individual and family centered, values oriented treatment…
To provide food and transitional housing to low income/homeless families and individuals in franklin and surrounding counties in pa
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
The organization offers food, clothing and shelter to the unhomed of berks county. services offered include education and work development, providing spiritual transformation through discipleship, church attendence, bibel study and prayer…
The mission of the pennsylvania prison society is to protect the health, safety, and dignity of incarcerated people in pennsylvania.
Our mission is to provide a support system for men seeking to be free from addiction that fosters long-term success and well being. To this end, we provide housing for men that have come out of addiction. We provide life skills workshops,…
Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.
To end and prevent homelessness for single mothers and their children in cumberland, dauphin and york counties of pennsylvania, with professional case-management support, and the assistance of trained mentoring volunteer groups from local…
The provision of housing, rehabilitation, and support services to individuals with emotional and developmental disabilities along with support and treatment services for individuals with drug and alcohol addictions.
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…
Mental health therapy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethesda Mission of Harrisburg Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gather the Spirit for Justice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 43 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 PENNON ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDARDS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHAMPIONS OF PA INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SOMEONE TO TELL IT TO INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GAUDENZIA INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC ↗
- Who funds BRO2GO LLC ↗
- Who funds TLC Work Based Training Program Inc ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PAXTON STREET HOME BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CONTACT HELPLINE ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Hall Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Community Aid Inc · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family 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 Browning Ida W Tr U W 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.