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Guard Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k3 grants · $135
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY | $20,937 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK | $60 |
| SUMMIT VOLUNTEER FIRST AID SQUAD | $50 |
| PAJAMA PROGRAM | $25 |
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 (FY17–19, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2019, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY3× · 2017–2019 · $102k · revenue +150%
- GHGreater Hazleton Partners In Education2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +95%
- TTECBRIDGE2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +46%
- MUMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +48%
- SKSLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.
Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…
Healthcare, education, and research
As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.
Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.
The mission of main line hospitals, inc. is to provide a comprehensive range of safe, high quality health services, complemented by educational and research activities that meet healthcare needs and improve the quality of life in the…
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wyoming Valley and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 81 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 UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Greater Hazleton Partners In Education ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TECBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Historical & Geological Society ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF WILKES-BARRE ↗
- Who funds GREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BACK MOUNTAIN REGIONAL FIRE AND EMS INC ↗
- Who funds PLAINS VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Shavertown Volunteer Fire Co ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds NOXEN COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
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: The Luzerne Foundation · Allone Charities · Sordoni Foundation Inc · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · Sordoni Family Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Mericle Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Verizon Foundation · Ppl 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 Guard Foundation 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.
- Partners for Women and Justice Inc — 26% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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