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Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf) at a glance

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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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$61kHuman Services$43kPhilanthropy$41kHealth$34kReligion$27kArts & Culture$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$622k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$2,000
MAHANOY AREA HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION$2,000
ST JOSEPH CENTER FOR SPECIAL$1,750
SCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTER (fka SCHUYLKILL$1,750
WILL S & ANNA S FOX FOUNDATION$1,500
SCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS$1,500
BEN D SPAGOLIO CHARITABLETR$1,500
NE PA MANUFACTURERS & EMPLOYERS COUNCIL$1,250
WALK-IN ART CENTER$1,250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $250 → 9%SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS: $2k → 12%SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS: $2k → 12%SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS: $2k → 12%SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$274k · 33 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
3

Total granted

$274k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-7%

Still filing today

39%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    SCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +17%
  • WI
    WALK IN ART CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +53%
  • IS
    ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • MC
    MAHANOY CITY BOROUGH CHRISTMAS DECOR
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • HS
    Hillside SPCA Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -17%
  • OH
    OLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -7%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Schuyler County Community Foundation
Philanthropy
2
South Williamsport Education Foundation
Education
3
Johnstown Historical Society
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4
Benevolent Association of Pottsville
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5
Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library

To provide library services to the residents of bethel-tulpehocken and the surrounding areas.

—
6
Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce

To promote commercial, industrial, and civil interest in schuylkill county, pa.

—
7
Simsbury Free Library
Education
8
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
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9
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center
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10
Western Pennsylvania Foundation for the Arts
Arts & Culture
11
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
12
Parkesburg Free Library

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schuylkill Women in Crisis; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
4/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY: $22,000 · OtherSCHUYLKILL UNITED WAYIndividual grant recipient: $21,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST UNITED METHODIST CH: $18,500 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHST JOSEPH CENTER FOR SPECIAL: $17,300 · OtherST JOSEPH CENTER FOR SPECIALSCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC: $11,500 · OtherSCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INCMAHANOY AREA HIGH SCHOOL: $11,500 · OtherMAHANOY AREA HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $11,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPOTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $8,600 · OtherBEN SPAGOLIO CHARITABLE: $7,600 · OtherNATIONAL FOUND FOR CELIAC AWARENESS: $6,250 · Other+16 more: $50,400 · Other+16 moreMAHANOY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $31,300 · EducationMAHANOY CITY PUBLIC…CRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION: $9,750 · EducationCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDA…WALK IN ART CENTER INC: $7,750 · EducationWALK IN ART CENTER …AVENUES: $16,550 · HealthAVENUESAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $9,150 · HealthAMERICAN C…SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS: $6,500 · Human ServicesOLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $250 · Human ServicesISLAMIC SOCIETY OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY: $3,500 · ReligionBEN D SPAGOLIO CHARITABLE TRUST: $3,000 · PhilanthropySCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 · EmploymentHillside SPCA Inc: $500 · Animals
Other$186,650Education$48,800Health$25,700Human Services$6,750Religion$3,500Philanthropy$3,000Employment$2,750Animals$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAHANOY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $31,300 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetSCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY: $22,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAVENUES: $16,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSCHUYLKILL COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC: $11,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATION: $9,750 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $9,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $8,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWALK IN ART CENTER INC: $7,750 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC SOCIETY OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY: $3,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWILL S & ANNA S FOX FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetBEN D SPAGOLIO CHARITABLE TRUST: $3,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetSCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 over 4y, 13% of budgetHillside SPCA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 WILL S & ANNA S FOX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEN D SPAGOLIO CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SCHUYLKILL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hillside SPCA Inc ↗
  • Who funds OLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ben D Spagolio Charit…Will S & Anna S Fox F…Thomas J West Family …Anna C Bohorad Trust BHerman Yudacufski Cha…Miles S & Anna Kiehne…Snayberger Memorial F…Ppl FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Ben D Spagolio Charitable TrustPA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf)?

    Find your warmest path to Comerford Mary Tw Charitable (Pf) through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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