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Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr

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.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$341kHealth$71kArts & Culture$59kCommunity Improvement$46kEducation$20kRecreation & Sports$20kReligion$18kPhilanthropy$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,100
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY YMCA$24,833
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
WALKING FREE CLUBHOUSE$5,000
TRANSITIONS OF PA$5,000
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE$5,000
VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY$5,000
LEWISBURG CHILDRENS MUSEUM$4,300
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CHORALE$4,000
DIG FURNITURE BANK$4,000
CENTRAL PA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CORP$3,000
SHIKELLAMY COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE$2,500
DANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY CENTER$2,500
AMERICAN RESCUE WORKERS INC$2,500
PA COUNCIL OF FINANCIAL LITERACY$2,500
LINE MTN NETS WEEKEND BP FOOD PROG$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HAND UP FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%SUSQUEHANNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $8k → 10%DIG FURNITURE BANK: $4k → 14%DIG FURNITURE BANK: $2k → 14%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $6k → 10%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $5k → 11%DANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $2k → 10%DANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $2k → 10%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $5k → 10%HAND UP FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $4k → 11%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $3k → 11%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $2k → 11%COMMUNITY ZONE: $1k → 11%COMMUNITY ZONE: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$502k · 30 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
47

Total granted

$502k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+6%

Still filing today

83%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • GS
    Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +93%
  • RE
    REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER
    3× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +19%
  • SA
    SPREADING ANTLERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue ×16

Funded once

  • CS
    CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -30%
  • SB
    SUNBURY BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • DL
    DONALD L HEITER COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +115%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cumberland Valley Community Connections
Youth Development
2
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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3
Saucon Valley Community Center

A community center which provides a meeting place and programs for the recreation and social welfare of all age groups in the community.

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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
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
6
The Mountain Playhouse

Offering the people of rural south-western pennsylvania live professional theatre producing eight or nine shows per summer of selected comedies, dramas, and musicals.

Arts & Culture
7
Marietta Center for the Arts

The mission of the susquehanna stage company is to celebrate, through theatrical performances, the common humanity binding us all together. we seek to create extraordinary theatre experiences that educate, challenge, inspire and serve the…

Arts & Culture
8
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth
Philanthropy
9
Northern Columbia Community and Cultural Center

The northern columbia community and cultural center is a gathering place whose purpose is to enhance the quality of life for the those who live in, work in and/or visit northern columbia county.

Recreation & Sports
10
Susquehanna County Recreation Center

Provide clean safe fun and community oriented recreational opportunities to the residents of the greater susquehanna county area.

Recreation & Sports
11
Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce

Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Susquehanna Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Camps for Spiffy-Kyds Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Arts & Culture Org…Veterans and Fraternal Lodg…Public LibrariesVolunteer Fire CompaniesYouth Sports & ActivitiesCommunity Service Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%9%<5yr12%7%5–10yr16%21%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr17%20%35–55yr22%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr12%4%5–10yr16%15%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr17%12%35–55yr22%52%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
8%
130/1,533

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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
30/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA — $239,888 · OtherGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCATHE SALVATION ARMY — $31,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient — $26,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+67 more — $191,018 · Other+67 moreREGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER — $19,050 · Human ServicesREGIONAL E…TRANSITIONS OF PA — $13,600 · Human ServicesTRANSITION…HANDUP FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Human ServicesHANDUP FOU…DIG FURNITURE BANK — $7,000 · Human ServicesDIG FURNIT…SUSQUEHANNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesSUSQUEHANN…DANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $4,100 · Human ServicesDANVILLE C…+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesNORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES — $12,600 · Arts & CultureSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CHORALE — $12,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CAMPUS THEATRE LTD — $6,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureA & B CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $4,200 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $4,000 · Arts & CultureA COMMUNITY CLINIC — $9,000 · HealthKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES — $3,500 · HealthGAUDENZIA INC — $3,000 · HealthPCC CORNER OF HOPE — $2,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DANVILLE INC — $1,000 · HealthSPREADING ANTLERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementTHE IMPROVED MILTON EXPERIENCE — $1,500 · Community ImprovementMifflinburg Heritage & Revitalization Assoc Inc — $1,000 · Community ImprovementSUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC — $11,000 · EnvironmentMERRILL W LINN LAND & WATERWAYS CONSERVANCY — $1,500 · EnvironmentLITTLE SHAMOKIN CREEK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · EnvironmentCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC — $12,500 · Employment
Other$488,406Human Services$58,250Arts & Culture$44,300Health$18,500Community Improvement$17,500Environment$13,500Employment$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA — $239,888 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetREGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER — $19,050 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSPREADING ANTLERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetEOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $14,716 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTRANSITIONS OF PA — $13,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES — $12,600 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CHORALE — $12,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC — $11,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetA COMMUNITY CLINIC — $9,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetHANDUP FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOR THE CAUSE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDIG FURNITURE BANK — $7,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CAMPUS THEATRE LTD — $6,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLEWISBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $5,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDONALD L HEITER COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDANVILLE AREA COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetA & B CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $4,200 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE GREEN DRAGON FOUNDATION — $4,131 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $4,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF SUNBURY INC — $3,750 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE STATE LITERACY ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSUNCOM INDUSTRIES INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERACTION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARBARAS HOUSE INC — $2,900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPCC CORNER OF HOPE — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,721 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMERRILL W LINN LAND & WATERWAYS CONSERVANCY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ZONE — $1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFREMONT FIRE DEPARTMENT — $1,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DANVILLE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGamut Theatre Group — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEWISBURG NEIGHBORHOODS CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLEWISBURG ARTS COUNCIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMifflinburg Heritage & Revitalization Assoc Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAMPS FOR SPIFFY-KYDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEXCHANGE ARTS DBA THE EXCHANGE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY LAW ENFORCEMENT — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ARC SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Degenstein Charitable…First Community Found…Community Giving Foun…The 1994 Charles B De…Ppl FoundationGuyer FoundationCentral Pennsylvania …William J and Ann M R…Seiple Family Foundat…Fern & Gladys Moyer M…Sunbury Northumberlan…United Way of Columbi…
Degenstein Charitable FoundationFL84.7× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Degenstein Charitable Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Community Giving Foundation · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Ppl Foundation · Guyer Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · William J and Ann M Roll Foundation · Seiple Family Foundation · Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · Sunbury Northumberland Commtr · United Way of Columbia and Montour County

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 Charles B Fdn-Char Tr 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 70%
  • Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
  • Barbaras House Inc — 17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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