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Gilmore-Hoerner Endowment

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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$105kEducation$20kCommunity Improvement$13kPhilanthropy$5kHealth$3k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$4,860
Median grant
1
States reached
$430k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILSON COLLEGE$15,000
DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC$5,000
CUMBERLAND VALLEY THEATRE ORGAN$4,860
CHAMBERSBURG COMMUNITY THEATER$4,000
CUMBERLAND VALLEY BREAST CARE$3,000
DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC$2,500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MARK COOLEY: $300 → 9%ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER: $35k → 17%HAGERSTOWN MINICIPAL BAND: $10k → 12%CUMBERLAND VALLEY BREAST CARE: $3k → 9%JASS AT LINCOLN CENTER: $25k → 17%WILSON COLLEGE: $15k → 9%WILSON COLLEGE: $5k → 9%DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC: $5k → 9%CHAMBERSBURG BALLET THEATRE: $5k → 9%DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC: $5k → 9%CAPITOL THEATRE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 9%CUMBERLAND VALLEY SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $5k → 9%CUMBERLAND VALLEY THEATRE ORGAN: $5k → 9%CHAMBERSBURG COMMUNITY THEATER: $4k → 9%DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC: $3k → 9%CASHS BAND: $300 → 9%TOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 9%ELISABETH TURCHI: $400 → 9%ROBERT EYER JR: $300 → 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 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
Chambersburg Area Council for the Arts

Support the arts locally through local cultural experiences

Arts & Culture
2
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

To promote interest in an appreciation for and enjoyment of the arts. to conduct festivals of the arts. to plan and conduct other programs which will advance the arts and improve an appreciation for and enjoyment of the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Lancaster County Council of the Arts

To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.

Arts & Culture
4
Gettysburg Community Theatre Inc

To inspire creativity and confidence, promote cultural enrichment, and instill a love of the theatre arts in people of all ages and abilities through quality education and performance.

Arts & Culture
5
Classic Theatre of Maryland Inc

Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…

Arts & Culture
6
Chemung County Performing Arts Inc Clemens Center

The purpose of the clemens center is to enhance the quality of life for all the region's residents by providing a diversity of excellent performing arts programming in a superior facility.

Arts & Culture
7
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…

Arts & Culture
8
Cumberland Choral Arts

To provide choral arts for the fayetteville and surrounding community.

Arts & Culture
9
Pennsylvania College of Technology Community Arts Center Inc

Contributing to our communities through artistic experiences and creative collaborations based on the following organization values: Promote Inclusivity--including the embrace and promotion of fairness, equity, diversity and inclusion,…

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10
Classical Theatre Company

Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…

Arts & Culture
11
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
12
Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania

Citizens for the arts in pennsylvania (cfa/pa) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization advocating for funding and for public policies, all to ensure the vibrant practice and appreciation of the arts and culture across the commonwealth of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capitol Theatre Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cumberland Valley Breast Care Alliance Inc. 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 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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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

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $34,714 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INCTOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSECUMBERLAND VALLEY SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCUMBERLAND VALLEY SCHOOL OF MUSICCAPITOL THEATRE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITOL THEATRE CENTER FOUNDATIONCHAMBERSBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMBERSBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE INCJASS AT LINCOLN CENTER: $25,000 · OtherJASS AT LINCOLN CENTERHAGERSTOWN MUNICIPAL BAND: $10,000 · OtherHAGERSTOWN MUNICIPAL BANDCHAMBERSBURG BALLET THEATRE: $5,000 · OtherCHAMBERSBURG BALLET THEATRECOUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 · OtherCOUNCIL FOR THE ARTSCUMBERLAND VALLEY THEATRE ORGAN: $4,860 · OtherCUMBERLAND VALLEY THEATRE ORGAN+4 more: $1,300 · OtherWILSON COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationWILSON COLLEGEADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationADAMS COUNTY COMMUN…DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN …CUMBERLAND VALLEY BREAST CARE ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$53,714Other$51,160Education$25,000Community Improvement$12,500Health$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $34,714 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILSON COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCUMBERLAND VALLEY SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAPITOL THEATRE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHAMBERSBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

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.

The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Gilmore-Hoerner Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilmore-Hoerner Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 18 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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