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.

Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr

Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr at a glance

· 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.

$34k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$4k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% 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

02FY2026 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,400

Median grant

States reached

$767k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Bald Eagle Area School District	$4,000
Bellefonte Area School District	$4,000
YMCA OF CENTRE COUNTY	$3,000
HOWARD VOLUNTEER FIRE CO	$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
BELLEFONTE HISTORICAL & CULTURAL ASSOC	$1,500
CPI FOUNDATION INC	$1,500
GREATER BUFFALO RUN VALLEY UNITED	$1,000
TRINITY UMC	$1,000
ETHEL BEAVER FUND	$1,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$117k · 12 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$117k

$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%

+10%

Still filing today

58%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesHealthScience & TechEnvironmentYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

HB
HISTORIC BELLEFONTE INC
6× · 2021–2026 · $15k · revenue +70%
BH
BELLEFONTE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
6× · 2021–2026 · $9k · revenue +80%
WT
WALKER TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC
3× · 2022–2026 · $5k · revenue +4%

Funded once

BE
BELLEFONTE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +160% · 28% of their budget
HF
Howard Fire Company No 1 Inc
one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +7%
PG
Pleasant Gap Fire Company No 1graduated
one grant, 2025 · $4k · revenue +87%

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.

Upper Lancaster Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide fire protection to community

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Seelyville Fire Company

Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster

Midway Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection for the borough of midway, pa and the surrounding area

Public Safety & Disaster

Central Volunteer Fire Department

Operation of a volunteer fire company for the local communities in pike county, pa.

Public Safety & Disaster

Bear Creek Township Volunteer Hose Company

Community fire protection

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Millersburg Fire Co No 1

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster

Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department

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Bethlehem Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer Fire Dept

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New Centerville & Rural Volunteer Fire Company

Providing fire fighting services to the surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster

Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

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Lititz Fire Company #1

Firefighting Service To The Surrounding Community

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Duncannon Fire Company No 1 Inc

Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Township Volunteer Fire Co Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/20

Grantees still filing

13/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$135,313Human Services$23,921Public Safety & Disaster$15,839Science & Tech$7,750Health$4,277Arts & Culture$2,500Environment$1,000Youth Development$1,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home