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Community Giving Foundation
The COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION exists to grow and steward charitable resources that strengthen the communities it serves.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 111 grants below total $3,081,401 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,724,673 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $643,272 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $263k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $362k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $362,355 |
| AGAPE LOVE FROM ABOVE TO OUR COMMUNITY (ALEXANDER) | $185,970 |
| BERWICK AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $124,616 |
| COMMUNITY STRATEGIES GROUP (KISNER) | $118,890 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC (CHOPRA) | $118,600 |
| BEYOND VIOLENCE INC (CAMPBELL) | $96,900 |
| CHRIST MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $89,200 |
| THE DENTAL HEALTH CLINIC | $65,700 |
| DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY CENTER | $57,350 |
| DANVILLE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT (NIED) | $55,739 |
| A COMMUNITY CLINIC INC | $54,950 |
| SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY DENTAL HEALTH CLINIC | $53,150 |
| THE BLOOMSBURG TOWN PARK IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $52,000 |
| CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC A COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (BAIR) | $51,828 |
| FOR THE CAUSE | $49,450 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
134 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 16 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
- GCGEISINGER CLINIC6× · 2017–2022 · $4.5M · revenue +70%
- ALAGAPE LOVE FROM ABOVE TO OUR COMMUNITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +48%
- CCCOLUMBIA COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $993k · revenue +12% · 72% of their budget
Funded once
- HFHOLY FAMILY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $75k
- CECHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $69k
- LTLEARNING TO LIVE BELOVED MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Volunteer firefighting
Operation of a community library in honey brook, pennsylvania.
Provide emergency medical services.
To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.
Volunteer fire company
Public lending library
The somerset county chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the somerset county, pennsylvania region as a superior locale in which to live, work, vacation and conduct business.
To improve volunteer fire service in Schuylkill County
To fight fires and engage in public safety work including Susquehanna River boaters protection, automobile accident fires and other rescue activities in Dauphin Borough, Middle Paxton Twp and surrounding Townships in PA
To provide fire protection and emergency services to the residents of Harris and College Townships, PA, and surrounding communities
To serve and protect the coudersport pa and other nearby areas in the event of a fire accident emergency or disaster and rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berks County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Russell Charitable Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
137 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. 137 of the 214 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GEISINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE LOVE FROM ABOVE TO OUR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BERWICK PA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds DENTAL HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BERWICK PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLUMBIA COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds A COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BERWICK AREA SWIMMING POOL INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY DENTAL HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONAL HOUSING & CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERWICK THEATER AND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-MONTOUR COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STRATEGIES GROUP ↗
- Who funds BERWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BERWICK ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE COLUMBIA-MONTOUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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: First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Degenstein Charitable Foundation · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr · Ppl Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Geisinger Health · United Way of Columbia and Montour County · Susquehanna Valley United Way · Guyer Foundation · Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · The Middleswarth 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 Giving 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.
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.