· Private foundation
Degenstein Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $9,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - MILTON AND SUNBURY | $6,000 |
| TRANSITIONS OF PA | $6,000 |
| SNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC | $6,000 |
| DIG FURNITURE BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SUMMER SEALS DAY CAMP | $5,000 |
| SHIKELLAMY LITTLE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC | $5,000 |
| GREATER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| UNION COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $4,500 |
| NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE | $4,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA GREENWAY PARTNERSHIP | $4,000 |
| FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES OF SNYDER UNION | $4,000 |
| GREATER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY YMCA | $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 (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 13 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- GSGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA6× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +119%
- SCSNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC6× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +80%
- SRSUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- LMLINE MOUNTAIN NOURISHING EAGLES TO SOARone grant, 2024 · $8k
- SISUDDEN IMPACT 12U SOFTBALLone grant, 2018 · $7k
- GHGEISINGER HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +235%
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.
The Schuylkill Valley Community Library is dedicated to providing resources and opportunities that support the literacy, technological and leisure needs of our patrons.
Monessen Public Library provides collection facilities and services to the people of the Monessen community, which assists them in fulfilling their need for information, research sources, and cultural enrichment.
The mission of the Parkesburg Free Library is to provide the Parkesburg Borough and surrounding communities with book materials and information necessary for personal growth and life long learning. We seek to guide community and business…
The Murrysville Community Library serves the communitys evolving informational needs. We connect people with ideas and information, promote lifelong learning, and help build the community.
To support the programs, services, and innovative initiatives of the cumberland county (pa) library system and its member libraries.
The Organization serves Riegelsville Borough and Durham Township, providing and accessing print and multimedia resources for patrons of all ages in a professional and courteous environment.
Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.
The mission of the mary s. biesecker public library is to provide informational and recreational materials for the people of the community. provide books, programs, library services, and computer access to the public.
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.
Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community
To provide materials and services to help county residents meet their information needs.
To promote commercial, industrial, and civil interest in schuylkill county, pa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Susquehanna Valley United Way and the most unlike its peers is West Branch Arts Consortium. 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 23 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 150 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 Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds SNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DONALD L HEITER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS OF PA ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPUS THEATRE LTD ↗
- Who funds SNYDER COUNTY COALITION FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds HANDUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIG FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds SPREADING ANTLERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ZONE ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEALS DAY CAMP ↗
- Who funds SUNCOM INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SUSQUEHANNA GREENWAY PARTNERSHP ↗
- Who funds THE IMPROVED MILTON EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds PRIESTLEY FORSYTH MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHERISHED CATS RESCUE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds A COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RALPHO TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds A & B CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
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: The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr · Community Giving Foundation · Guyer Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundation · William J and Ann M Roll Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Sunbury Northumberland Commtr · Susquehanna Valley United Way
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 Degenstein Charitable 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.