· Private foundation
Deerfield Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $79k
- $250k+1 grant · $728k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KNOXVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $727,720 |
| HAMILTON-GIBSON PRODUCTIONS | $28,050 |
| ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL | $18,000 |
| KNOXVILLE-DEERFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $12,000 |
| NORTHERN TIER RECREATION AUTHORITY | $11,000 |
| NORTHERN TIOGA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| OSCEOLA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC | $8,000 |
| SABINSVILLE FIREMENS AMBULANCE ASSN | $8,000 |
| CRARY HOSE COMPANY | $8,000 |
| CLYMER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER HOSE COMPANY | $8,000 |
| ELKLAND BOROUGH VOL FIRE DEPT | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| NELSON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| KNOXVILLE FOOD PANTRY | $4,500 |
| ELKLAND AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $4,000 |
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, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- KPKNOXVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY7× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +377% · 67% of their budget
- HGHAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +40%
- EMENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- KVKNOXVILLE-DEERFIELD VOL FIRE COone grant, 2020 · $23k
- PLPOTTER-TIOGA LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $14k
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.
Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.
Fire fighting, rescue and other emergency services
Provide emergency medical services and fire runs Training of volunteer EMS and fire personnel maintenance and repair of equipment.
To provide ems services to local citizens
To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.
To provide Fire Protection and Emergency Services to the Community
To provide fire and ambulance (and other emergency support) for emergency calls for the City of Lower Burrell, PA which has approximately 14,000 residents.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Fire and ems protection - preservation of lives and property during an emergency
Community fire protection
The Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department provides both fire and ambulance response services in the area of Tidioute, Pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Endless Mountain Music Festival Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tioga County Honor Guard. 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 19 years old; the field is 25. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 106 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 KNOXVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSCEOLA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CRARY HOSE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY HONOR GUARD ↗
- Who funds ELKLAND BOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ELKLAND AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CLYMER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER HOSE CO ↗
- Who funds SABINSVILLE FIREMEN'S AMBULANCE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TWIN TIERS ↗
- Who funds NELSON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 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: Earl W and Ina G Tabor Foundation · Horace B Packer Foundation Inc · Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation · Baker Foundation · David G Patterson Foundation · Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet Foundation · Dunham Family Foundation · Albert S & Mary Guiles Krieger Foundation · McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta · Wolstenholme Charitable Foundation · Lutes Foundation Co First Citizens Community · 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 Deerfield Charitable Trust 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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