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Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2026
14
Organizations funded FY2025
57%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$2,400
Largest grant, FY2026
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 16
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$767k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 57% of the organizations Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving15$34k47%
FY202514$35k57%
FY202414$30k36%
FY202316$47k50%
FY202214$20k64%
FY202113$25kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Education$59kArts & Culture$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kReligion$17kHuman Services$15kMembership Benefit$5kHealth$4kYouth Development$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Historic Bellefonte Inc$15,25064%
Young Men's Christian Association of Centre County$14,04150%
Faithcentre$9,88031%
Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association$9,000610%
Cpi Foundation Inc$7,75069%
Bellefonte Cemetery Association$5,0002n/a
Walker Township Volunteer Fire Co Inc$4,71530%
Bellefonte Education Foundation$4,000128%
Howard Fire Company No 1 Inc$3,50011%
Pleasant Gap Fire Company No 1$3,5001n/a
Pine Glen Fire Company$3,50010%
Bellefonte Little League$2,50013%
Undine Fire Company No 2$2,5001n/a
Rising Hope Therapeutic Riding Ctr$2,50013%
Roland Curtin Foundation for the Preservation of Eagle Furnace Inc$2,5001n/a
Milesburg Museum and Historical Society$2,50011%
Port Matilda Fire Company Inc$2,12411%
Centre County Library and Historical Musuem$2,00010%
Snow Shoe Ambulance & Rescue Service$2,00011%
Centre Volunteers in Medicine$1,7771n/a
Crooked House$1,0001n/a
The Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc$1,00020%
Ethel Beaver Fund$1,0001n/a
Howard Area Lions Food Bank$1,0001n/a
Friends of Bellefonte Little House$1,0001n/a
Heritage House Museum$9001n/a
Knights of Columbus$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHistoric Bellefonte Inc: $15,250 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Centre County: $14,041 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFaithcentre: $9,880 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBellefonte Historical and Cultural Association: $9,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetCpi Foundation Inc: $7,750 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetWalker Township Volunteer Fire Co Inc: $4,715 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBellefonte Education Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetHoward Fire Company No 1 Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPine Glen Fire Company: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBellefonte Little League: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRising Hope Therapeutic Riding Ctr: $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMilesburg Museum and Historical Society: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPort Matilda Fire Company Inc: $2,124 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCentre County Library and Historical Musuem: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSnow Shoe Ambulance & Rescue Service: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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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.

Centre Foundation IncPA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centre Foundation Inc · The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau · The Poole Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr

How much does Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr give?
Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr reported 15 grants totaling $34,077 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (17%), Public Safety & Disaster (17%).
Who are Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Historic Bellefonte Inc ($15k), Young Men's Christian Association of Centre County ($14k), Faithcentre ($10k).
Does Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Centre Foundation Inc, The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau, The Poole Foundation.
Where is Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr based?
Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr is based in PA.

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 50 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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