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David a Glosser Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL JTWN | $75,000 |
| GREATER JOHNSTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $6,000 |
| BETH SHALOM CONGREGATION | $4,000 |
| PA RURAL ARTS ALLIANCE | $3,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $3,000 |
| BEGINNINGS INC | $3,000 |
| JOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-CME | $2,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER JTWN | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| HIGHLANDS HEALTH | $1,500 |
| MOMS HOUSE | $1,000 |
| JAHA | $1,000 |
| THE LEARNING LAMP | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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 +36% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JSJOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +76%
- BIBEGINNINGS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +7%
- TLTHE LEARNING LAMP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- JCJOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLETone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -41%
- GTGJ TENNIS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- PCPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION4× · 2022–2025 · $500 · revenue +17%
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.
Public lending library
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
Public lending library
Provide public library services
Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
The mission of the warren library association is to provide all citizens in its service area access to library materials and information services which address the needs and expand the aspirations of the community for formal and lifelong…
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Public lending library
Public lending library
Lower macungie library strives to inform, enrich, and empower our community
Public lending library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Learning Lamp Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bottleworks Inc Ethnic Arts Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 49 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 JOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING LAMP INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BEAVERDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VICTIM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Lee Initiatives Inc · 1889 Foundation Inc · United Way of the Southern Alleghenies Inc · Raymond Dibattista Charitable Trust · Riggs Family Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 David a Glosser 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.
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