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Gibbel Foundation Inc at a glance

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Gibbel Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$626kPhilanthropy$475kReligion$325kRecreation & Sports$57kHuman Services$11kInternational$5kCivil Rights$300
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$924k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRETHREN CHURCH OF THE$1,400
JUNIATA COLLEGE$1,200
BETHANY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BRETHREN VILLAGE: $10k → 9%BRETHREN VILLAGE: $688 → 9%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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$956k · 9 repeat orgs$543k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$956k
$543k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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

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EducationReligionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • JC
    JUNIATA COLLEGE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $623k · revenue +26%
  • CS
    CAMP SWATARA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $117k · revenue +3%
  • PR
    PARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $21k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • GD
    GIBBEL DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $475k
  • TH
    TREE HOUSE OF LITITZ FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $57k · revenue -89%
  • HOPE INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
2
Geneva College

Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.

Education
3
Pittsboro Christian Village

Pittsboro Christian Village is a caring and compassionate continuing care retirement community for the Lord's people during their senior years. We provide our resident's spiritual and physical well-being, guided by biblical principles to…

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4
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
5
Barclay College

The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.

Education
6
Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary

Trinity equips men and women with a christian world view of leadership and service in life, work and minsitry through distance education that encourages professional and academic excellence.

Education
7
Eastern Mennonite University

A leader among faith-based universities Eastern Mennonite University emphasizes peace-building creation care experiential learning and intercultural engagement. Founded in 1917 in Harrisonburg Virginia EMU is an educational institution of…

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8
Trevecca Nazarene University

Trevecca nazarene university is a private, co-educational, christian liberal arts university. the university exists to carry out the educational mission of the church by means of academic programs that promote scholarship, critical…

Education
9
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
10
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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11
Providence Christian College

The mission of providence christian college is to equip students to be firmly grounded in biblical truth, thoroughly educated in the liberal arts, and fully engaged in their church, community, and the world, for the glory of god and for…

Education
12
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goshen College Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tree House of Lititz Foundation. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIBBEL DONOR ADVISED FUND: $475,000 · OtherGIBBEL DONOR ADVISED FUNDBRETHERN LITITZ CHURCH OF THE: $90,683 · OtherBRETHERN LITITZ CHURCH OF THEBRETHREN CHURCH OF THE: $53,200 · OtherBRETHREN CHURCH OF THEBETHANY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC: $32,000 · Other+3 more: $11,300 · OtherJUNIATA COLLEGE: $623,000 · EducationJUNIATA COLLEGE+2 more: $3,900 · EducationCAMP SWATARA: $116,500 · ReligionCAMP SWATA…PARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $21,000 · ReligionPARISH RES…TREE HOUSE OF LITITZ FOUNDATION: $57,000 · Recreation & SportsBRETHREN VILLAGE: $10,688 · Human ServicesHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · International
Other$662,183Education$626,900Religion$137,500Recreation & Sports$57,000Human Services$10,688International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE: $623,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP SWATARA: $116,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTREE HOUSE OF LITITZ FOUNDATION: $57,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $21,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetBRETHREN VILLAGE: $10,688 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoshen College Inc: $2,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MINISTRY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetON EARTH PEACE ASSEMBLY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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 JUNIATA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SWATARA ↗
  • Who funds TREE HOUSE OF LITITZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BRETHREN VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Goshen College Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ON EARTH PEACE ASSEMBLY INC ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Gibbel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gibbel Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 15 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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    The regranting layer
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