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Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf)
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAHANOY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $4,500 |
| POTTSVILL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $4,400 |
| SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,100 |
| MAHANOY AREA HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $2,000 |
| CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CENTER FOR SPECIAL | $1,750 |
| SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER (fka SCHUYLKILL | $1,750 |
| SCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS | $1,500 |
| WILL S & ANNA S FOX FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| BEN D SPAGOLIO CHARITABLETR | $1,500 |
| NE PA MANUFACTURERS & EMPLOYERS COUNCIL | $1,250 |
| WALK-IN ART CENTER | $1,250 |
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 (FY20–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 0% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SCSCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +8%
- WIWALK IN ART CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +53%
- ISISLAMIC SOCIETY OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- MCMAHANOY CITY BOROUGH CHRISTMAS DECORone grant, 2024 · $2k
- HSHillside SPCA Incone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -17%
- OHOLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -7%
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.
To provide library services to the residents of bethel-tulpehocken and the surrounding areas.
To promote commercial, industrial, and civil interest in schuylkill county, pa.
The mission of the Parkesburg Free Library is to provide the Parkesburg Borough and surrounding communities with book materials and information necessary for personal growth and life long learning. We seek to guide community and business…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schuylkill Women in Crisis and the most unlike its peers is Will S & Anna S Fox Foundation. 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, 2017–2025.
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. 15 of the 37 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 MAHANOY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds AVENUES ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WALK IN ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BEN D SPAGOLIO CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds WILL S & ANNA S FOX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hillside SPCA Inc ↗
- Who funds OLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust · Will S & Anna S Fox Foundation · Thomas J West Family Char Trust · Anna C Bohorad Trust B · Herman Yudacufski Charitable Foundation · Miles S & Anna Kiehner Memorial Trust Co Argent Trust Company · Snayberger Memorial Fdn (Pf) · Ppl Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf) 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.
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