· Public charity
Community Aid Inc
Using christ-like behaviors, we help our neighbors by providing quality, meaningful jobs and supporting local nonprofits, for the glory of god.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 41 grants below total $595,135 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $762,176 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $167,041 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $533k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| PROJECT SHARE | $30,604 |
| THE RUDDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| BETHESDA MISSION | $28,000 |
| PAXTON MINISTRIES | $25,580 |
| ANCHOR LANCASTER | $21,000 |
| MARY'S SHELTER | $20,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK PENNSYLVANIA | $20,000 |
| BOROUGH OF HANOVER | $20,000 |
| ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $20,000 |
| UNION SNYDER CAA | $19,000 |
| HANOVER COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $17,800 |
| GREENLIGHT OPERATION | $16,517 |
| CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC | $15,004 |
| BELL SOCIALIZATION SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k 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
- NHNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $827k · revenue +105%
- WSWATER STREET MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2023 · $523k · revenue +89%
- CCCHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITED OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA7× · 2018–2024 · $414k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BMBETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $43k · revenue +48%
- KIKATALLASSO INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -33%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +145%
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.
Shelter services inc provides temporary shelter to the homeless from multiple counties and facilitates programs to prevent homelessness through various housing/rent/utility assistance services.
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…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
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…
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
To provide food and transitional housing to low income/homeless families and individuals in franklin and surrounding counties in pa
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…
Good samaritan services compassionately responds to those approaching or experiencing homelessness across lancaster and chester counties.
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.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
We partner with people with disabilities, people with other barriers, young adults, children, and families to pursue their hopes and dreams through strengthening workplace abilities, building life skills, and developing meaningful…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Society Southern Pa District - Church of the Brethren and the most unlike its peers is Duncannon Fire Company No 1 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
127 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. 127 of the 187 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 NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHURCHES UNITED OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRISBURG AREA INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR LANCASTER ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PAXTON STREET HOME BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE HARRISBURG AREA ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOUR INC ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE CARES ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY SOUTHERN PA DISTRICT - CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN ↗
- Who funds DIG FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S CONCERN INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE LOVE FROM ABOVE TO OUR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDARDS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MARY'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TENFOLD ↗
- Who funds KELLEY LATTA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds VICTIM WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CARLISLE PA ↗
- Who funds NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds HARVEST FOOD PANTRY 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: Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · York County Community Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Members 1st Charitable Foundation · Rice Family Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Memorial Health Fund · Partnership for Better Health · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime 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 Community Aid Inc 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.