· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bald Eagle Area School District | $4,000 |
| Bellefonte Area School District | $4,000 |
| HOWARD VOLUNTEER FIRE CO | $3,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRE COUNTY | $3,000 |
| WALKER TOWNSHIP FIRE COMPANY | $2,900 |
| UNDINE FIRE COMPANY NO 2 | $2,500 |
| HISTORIC BELLEFONTE INC | $2,500 |
| BELLEFONTE BOROUGH POLICE DEPT | $2,400 |
| BELLEFONTE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $1,777 |
| CPI FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| BELLEFONTE HISTORICAL & CULTURAL ASSOC | $1,500 |
| GREATER BUFFALO RUN VALLEY UNITED | $1,000 |
| ETHEL BEAVER FUND | $1,000 |
| TRINITY UMC | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–26, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- HBHISTORIC BELLEFONTE INC6× · 2021–2026 · $15k · revenue +70%
- BHBELLEFONTE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION6× · 2021–2026 · $9k · revenue +80%
- WTWALKER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC3× · 2022–2026 · $5k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- BEBELLEFONTE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +160% · 28% of their budget
- PGPINE GLEN FIRE COMPANYone grant, 2025 · $4k · revenue 0%
- HFHoward Fire Company No 1 Incone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +7%
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.
Provide fire protection to community
Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.
Fire protection for the borough of midway, pa and the surrounding area
Operation of a volunteer fire company for the local communities in pike county, pa.
Community fire protection
Volunteer fire company
Volunteer Fire Dept
Providing fire fighting services to the surrounding communities.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Firefighting Service To The Surrounding Community
Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Township Volunteer Fire Co Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Bellefonte Little House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 50 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 HISTORIC BELLEFONTE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAITHCENTRE ↗
- Who funds BELLEFONTE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CPI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds BELLEFONTE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINE GLEN FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Howard Fire Company No 1 Inc ↗
- Who funds Pleasant Gap Fire Company No 1 ↗
- Who funds UNDINE FIRE COMPANY NO 2 ↗
- Who funds BELLEFONTE LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MILESBURG MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RISING HOPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CTR ↗
- Who funds PORT MATILDA FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL MUSUEM ↗
- Who funds SNOW SHOE AMBULANCE & RESCUE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds THE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
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: Centre Foundation Inc · The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau · The Poole Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Garver David B for Charity - 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.
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.