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David a Glosser Foundation at a glance

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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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$706kArts & Culture$121kEducation$94kHealth$57kReligion$43kPublic Benefit$36kYouth Development$21kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YMCA OF GREATER JTWN$2,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-CME$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
HIGHLANDS HEALTH$1,500
WOMENS HELP CENTER$1,000
MOMS HOUSE$1,000
COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER CC$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VICTIM SERVICES: $500 → 16%VICTIM SERVICES: $500 → 16%VICTIM SERVICES: $500 → 16%VICTIM SERVICES: $500 → 16%VICTIM SERVICES: $500 → 16%VICTIM SERVICES: $500 → 16%VICTIM SERVICES: $500 → 16%VICTIM SERVICES: $500 → 16%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 45 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

36%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JS
    JOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +76%
  • BI
    BEGINNINGS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +7%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY UNIONTOWN AREA CONFERENCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • JC
    JOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -41%
  • GT
    GJ TENNIS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • PC
    PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $500 · revenue +17%
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
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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2
Bethlehem Area Public Library

To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.

Education
3
North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

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4
Bellwood-Antis Public Library

Provide public library services

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5
Pike County Public Library Inc

Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania

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6
Adamstown Area Library

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…

Education
7
Warren Library Association

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…

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8
Penn Hills Library

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.

Education
9
Carbondale Public Library

Public lending library

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10
Scranton Public Library

Public lending library

—
11
Lower Macungie Library

Lower macungie library strives to inform, enrich, and empower our community

Education
12
Abington Community Library Association

Public lending library

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Learning Lamp Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 49 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL JTWN: $592,500 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL JTWNGREATER JOHNSTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $54,000 · OtherGREATER JOHNSTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICTYMCA OF GREATER JTWN: $37,000 · OtherBETH SHALOM CONGREGATION: $36,000 · Other+33 more: $255,700 · Other+33 moreJOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $36,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET: $2,000 · Arts & CultureWQED MULTIMEDIA: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY UNIONTOWN AREA CONFERENCE: $27,000 · ReligionTHE LEARNING LAMP INC: $14,000 · EducationBEAVERDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,400 · EducationSKY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthHIGHLANDS HEALTH: $6,500 · HealthVICTIM SERVICES INC: $4,000 · Human Services
Other$975,200Arts & Culture$52,000Religion$27,000Education$18,400Health$16,500Human Services$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $36,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetBEGINNINGS INC: $28,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY UNIONTOWN AREA CONFERENCE: $27,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LEARNING LAMP INC: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC: $10,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER: $10,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSKY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $8,750 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBRIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHLANDS HEALTH: $6,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBEAVERDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,400 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetVICTIM SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $3,400 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA: $2,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGALLERY ON GAZEBO: $1,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $500 over 4y, 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 JOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds BEGINNINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY UNIONTOWN AREA CONFERENCE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Lee Initiatives Inc1889 Foundation IncUnited Way of the Sou…Raymond Dibattista Ch…Riggs Family Foundati…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater JohnstownPA34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 David a Glosser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David a Glosser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to David a Glosser Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David a Glosser Foundation 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 49 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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