· Private foundation
Deerfield Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CRARY HOSE COMPANY | $8,000 |
| CLYMER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER HOSE COMPANY | $8,000 |
| SABINSVILLE FIREMENS AMBULANCE ASSN | $8,000 |
| ELKLAND BOROUGH VOL FIRE DEPT | $8,000 |
| OSCEOLA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| NELSON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| KNOXVILLE FOOD PANTRY | $4,500 |
| ELKLAND AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +68%
Funded once
- KVKNOXVILLE-DEERFIELD VOL FIRE COone grant, 2020 · $23k
- PLPOTTER-TIOGA LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $14k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
- Who funds Susquehanna Health Foundation ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Deerfield Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deerfield Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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