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Circle of Hope Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k46 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $31,000 |
| HORIZON EMPOWERING THE ORPHANED | $29,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PRE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK | $2,610 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,610 |
| BEAT THE STREETS LANCASTER | $2,610 |
| LOWER SUSQUEHANNA SYNOD | $2,610 |
| A WEEK AWAY | $2,610 |
| MS HERSHEY FOUNDATION | $2,610 |
| THE ELLIE EFFECT | $2,610 |
| GIRLS EMBRACING MOTHERS | $2,610 |
| HANDIVANGELISM MINISTRIES | $2,610 |
| PHILLY HOUSE | $2,610 |
| ZOE INTERNATIONAL | $2,610 |
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 (FY21–23, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- HEHORIZON EMPOWERING THE ORPHANED3× · 2021–2023 · $49k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS2× · 2022–2023 · $32k
- AFAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PRE2× · 2022–2023 · $12k
Funded once
- 4P4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INCone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -11%
- OHOPERATION HOMEFRONT INCone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -12%
- AAANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +59%
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.
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 mission of bridge of hope national is to engage christian faith communities in ending family homelessness through neighboring relationships that demonstrate christ's love.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
To advocate for and provide quality services to people with developmental disabilities and ensure their health, safety and welfare while promoting personal choice and growth.
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…
Pathways to housing pa empowers people with disabilities to improve their housing stability, achieve better health, and reclaim their lives.
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.
Empower single parents and their children to set and attain educational goals through parent support and mentorship, early childhood education and safe affordable childcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity House and the most unlike its peers is Six Feet Over. 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 25 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 102 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 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Girls Embracing Mothers Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MS HERSHEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REACH INC ↗
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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Ferree Foundation · Gooding Group Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · High Foundation · Community Aid Inc · The Cigna Group 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 Circle of Hope Foundation 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.
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% 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.
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