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Degenstein Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Degenstein Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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$263kEducation$184kHealth$108kCommunity Improvement$102kArts & Culture$79kYouth Development$61kRecreation & Sports$55kFood & Nutrition$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$9,500
SNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC$6,000
TRANSITIONS OF PA$6,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - MILTON AND SUNBURY$6,000
DIG FURNITURE BANK$5,000
SHIKELLAMY LITTLE LEAGUE$5,000
SUMMER SEALS DAY CAMP$5,000
GREATER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY$5,000
CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE BRIDGE OF HOPE: $1k → 14%THE LINUS PROJECT: $1k → 8%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS: $5k → 12%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS: $3k → 12%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS: $2k → 12%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS: $1k → 12%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $6k → 11%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $5k → 11%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY ZONE: $5k → 11%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $4k → 10%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $3k → 10%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $2k → 10%DIG FURNITURE BANK: $7k → 14%HANDUP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $3k → 11%DIG FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 14%HAND UP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HAND UP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DIG FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 14%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY ZONE: $3k → 11%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY ZONE: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY ZONE: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY ZONE: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY ZONE: $2k → 11%HAND UP FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%HANDUP FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$974k · 75 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
61

Total granted

$974k
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

64%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • GS
    Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA
    6× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +119%
  • SC
    SNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +80%
  • SR
    SUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • LM
    LINE MOUNTAIN NOURISHING EAGLES TO SOAR
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • SI
    SUDDEN IMPACT 12U SOFTBALL
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • LM
    LINE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Schuylkill Valley Community Library Inc

The Schuylkill Valley Community Library is dedicated to providing resources and opportunities that support the literacy, technological and leisure needs of our patrons.

Education
2
Monessen Public Library

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.

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3
Parkesburg Free Library

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…

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4
Murrysville Community Library

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.

Education
5
Cumberland County Library System Foundation

To support the programs, services, and innovative initiatives of the cumberland county (pa) library system and its member libraries.

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6
Riegelsville Public Library

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.

Education
7
Laurel Valley Senior Citizens Center

Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.

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8
Mary S Biesecker Public Libary

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.

Education
9
Somerset County Chamber of Commerce

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.

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10
Western Pocono Community Library

Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community

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11
Mifflin County Library Association

To provide materials and services to help county residents meet their information needs.

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12
Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce

To promote commercial, industrial, and civil interest in schuylkill county, pa.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Susquehanna Valley United Way; 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.
04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
45/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $84,656 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA: $49,145 · OtherGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCATHE SALVATION ARMY: $44,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $36,600 · Other+103 more: $535,275 · Other+103 moreSNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC: $40,000 · EducationSNYDER COU…PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR UNION COUNTY: $25,500 · EducationPUBLIC LIB…SUMMIT EARLY LEARNING: $20,000 · EducationSUMMIT EAR…THE GREEN DRAGON FOUNDATION: $7,030 · EducationTHE GREEN …SUN AREA CAREER & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationUNION COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $4,500 · Education+4 more: $10,500 · Education+4 moreTRANSITIONS OF PA: $19,000 · Human ServicesTRANSITIO…HANDUP FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Human ServicesHANDUP FO…DIG FURNITURE BANK: $17,000 · Human ServicesDIG FURNI…COMMUNITY ZONE: $16,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $13,250 · Human ServicesREGIONAL …KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE …+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CHORALE: $20,100 · Arts & CultureTHE CAMPUS THEATRE LTD: $18,500 · Arts & CultureA & B CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $9,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $8,500 · Arts & CultureLEWISBURG NEIGHBORHOODS CORPORATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWEST BRANCH ARTS CONSORTIUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureShikellamy Band Association Inc: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,100 · Arts & CultureA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,500 · HealthTHINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC: $10,000 · HealthEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $7,400 · HealthSUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY DENTAL HEALTH CLINIC: $6,000 · HealthGEISINGER HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $3,000 · HealthAUTISM DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATIONS AND RESOURSE SERVICES: $3,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DANVILLE INC: $2,500 · HealthPCC CORNER OF HOPE: $2,500 · HealthRCAA HEALTH SERVICES INC: $2,500 · HealthSUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC: $27,650 · EnvironmentTHE SUSQUEHANNA GREENWAY PARTNERSHP: $12,000 · EnvironmentMERRILL W LINN LAND & WATERWAYS CONSERVANCY: $7,500 · EnvironmentSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY: $33,625 · PhilanthropyFOR THE CAUSE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$750,176Education$112,530Human Services$94,750Arts & Culture$71,700Health$52,400Environment$47,150Philanthropy$41,125

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA: $49,145 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC: $40,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY: $33,625 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC: $27,650 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetPUBLIC LIBRARY FOR UNION COUNTY: $25,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDONALD L HEITER COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,250 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CHORALE: $20,100 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSUMMIT EARLY LEARNING: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSITIONS OF PA: $19,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CAMPUS THEATRE LTD: $18,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSNYDER COUNTY COALITION FOR KIDS: $17,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetHANDUP FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetDIG FURNITURE BANK: $17,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSPREADING ANTLERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY ZONE: $16,500 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetSUMMER SEALS DAY CAMP: $15,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetSUNCOM INDUSTRIES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $14,900 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $14,125 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $13,250 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SUSQUEHANNA GREENWAY PARTNERSHP: $12,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE IMPROVED MILTON EXPERIENCE: $11,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPRIESTLEY FORSYTH MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $11,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES: $11,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHERISHED CATS RESCUE ALLIANCE INC: $11,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRALPHO TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetJOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetA & B CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $9,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $8,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMERRILL W LINN LAND & WATERWAYS CONSERVANCY: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $7,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEWISBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $7,400 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GREEN DRAGON FOUNDATION: $7,030 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY PLANNING SERVICES OF SUNMJ: $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY DENTAL HEALTH CLINIC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetK-9 HERO HAVEN INC: $5,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLEWISBURG NEIGHBORHOODS CORPORATION: $5,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY LAW ENFORCEMENT: $5,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWEST BRANCH ARTS CONSORTIUM: $5,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetFOR THE CAUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSUN AREA CAREER & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetUNION COUNTY VETERANS 4TH OF JULY COMMITTEE INC: $4,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBUFFALO VALLEY REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $3,500 over 2y, 3.2% 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 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 THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds RALPHO TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds A & B CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗

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.

The 1994 Charles B De…First Community Found…Degenstein Charles B …Community Giving Foun…Guyer FoundationPpl FoundationFern & Gladys Moyer M…2006 Edward S Rosenbl…William J and Ann M R…Central Pennsylvania …Sunbury Northumberlan…Susquehanna Valley Un…
The 1994 Charles B Degenstein FdnPA90.8× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 150 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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