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Guyer Foundation

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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$50kEducation$38kHealth$37kYouth Development$27kCommunity Improvement$22kRecreation & Sports$9kEmployment$9kPhilanthropy$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$618k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES$5,121
UNION-SNYDER COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$5,121
KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC$3,000
CATHERINE GUYER SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,500
DIG FURNITURE BANK$2,258
GREATER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY YMCA$2,000
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 (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $3k → 12%DIG FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 14%PROJECT LINUS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $1k → 8%SUSQUEHANNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%DIG FURNITURE BANK: $2k → 14%DIG FURNITURE BANK: $2k → 14%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $3k → 10%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $2k → 10%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS: $6k → 14%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS: $3k → 14%CONCERNED CITIZENS CHILD CARE INC: $3k → 14%CONCERNED CITIZENS CHILD CARE INC: $2k → 14%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$169k · 26 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
26

Total granted

$169k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

65%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth 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

  • KS
    KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +26%
  • GS
    Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA
    4× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +88%
  • EC
    EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
    3× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -20%
  • WF
    WOOD-MODE FAMILY FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY IT'S COMPONENTS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Cumberland County Library System Foundation

To support the programs, services, and innovative initiatives of the cumberland county (pa) library system and its member libraries.

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2
Mary S Biesecker Public Libary

The mission of the mary s. biesecker public library is to provide informational and recreational materials for the people of the community. provide books, programs, library services, and computer access to the public.

Education
3
Murrysville Community Library

The Murrysville Community Library serves the communitys evolving informational needs. We connect people with ideas and information, promote lifelong learning, and help build the community.

Education
4
Schuylkill Valley Community Library Inc

The Schuylkill Valley Community Library is dedicated to providing resources and opportunities that support the literacy, technological and leisure needs of our patrons.

Education
5
Somerset County Chamber of Commerce

The somerset county chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the somerset county, pennsylvania region as a superior locale in which to live, work, vacation and conduct business.

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6
Hoyt Library

The hoyt library is a public free library located in kingston, pa. it was established as a nonsectarian library with reading and writing rooms suitable to the needs of the citizens in kingston and surrounding vicinity.

Education
7
Sullivan Free Library

Serving the members of the town of sullivan community by providing materials and services for their recreational, educational, informational, cultural and civic needs.

Education
8
Parkesburg Free Library

The mission of the Parkesburg Free Library is to provide the Parkesburg Borough and surrounding communities with book materials and information necessary for personal growth and life long learning. We seek to guide community and business…

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9
Montour Falls Memorial Library

The montour falls library creates an environment that nurtures intellectual freedom, encourages lifelong learning, offers open access to resources, supports new technologies, respects cultural diversity, and embraces the future.

Education
10
Mifflin County Library Association

To provide materials and services to help county residents meet their information needs.

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11
Eastern Lancaster County Library

The library's mission is to provide free access to information, education, technology, services and enterrainment to facilitate an informed society. the vision of the library is to be highly valued community source of information,…

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12
Crafton Public Library

A nonprofit organization that provides books, videos, periodicals and other educational materials for area residents to use and borrow. The Organization also provides a wide range of programs for the community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Susquehanna Valley United Way; the most unlike its peers is Catharine Guyer Scholarship Fund. 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

27 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. 27 of the 53 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHERINE GUYER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $23,000 · OtherCATHERINE GUYER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $18,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHUMBERLAND CO CHILDREN YOUTH: $14,300 · OtherNORTHUMBERLAND CO CHILDREN YOUTHGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA: $9,500 · OtherGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCACENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES: $7,821 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,300 · OtherGREATER SUSQ VALLEY YMCA: $6,250 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF MILTON SUNBURY: $5,750 · OtherWOOD-MODE FAMILY FUND: $5,500 · OtherSNYDER COUNTY COALITION FOR KIDS: $5,300 · Other+29 more: $52,221 · Other+29 moreKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE SERVIC…DIG FURNITURE BANK: $6,758 · Human ServicesDIG FURNITURE B…REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $4,800 · Human ServicesREGIONAL ENGAGE…CONCERNED CITIZENS CHILD CARE INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesCONCERNED CITIZ…SUSQUEHANNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesSUSQUEHANNA EDU…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $7,000 · HealthKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $3,000 · HealthA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $2,500 · HealthSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY: $7,500 · PhilanthropySPREADING ANTLERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $4,900 · Community ImprovementTHE IMPROVED MILTON EXPERIENCE: $1,000 · Community ImprovementSUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC: $5,650 · EnvironmentCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,500 · Employment
Other$154,492Human Services$31,058Health$12,500Philanthropy$7,500Community Improvement$5,900Environment$5,650Employment$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES: $7,821 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIG FURNITURE BANK: $6,758 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC: $5,650 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSNYDER COUNTY COALITION FOR KIDS: $5,300 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCATHARINE GUYER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetSPREADING ANTLERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $4,900 over 3y, 73% of budgetREGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $4,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS CHILD CARE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC LIBRARY FOR UNION COUNTY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRIESTLEY FORSYTH MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARC SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT LINUS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDONALD L HEITER COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CHORALE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE IMPROVED MILTON EXPERIENCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNION COUNTY VETERANS 4TH OF JULY COMMITTEE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds DIG FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds SUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SNYDER COUNTY COALITION FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds CATHARINE GUYER SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds SPREADING ANTLERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS CHILD CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds A COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds SNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SUSQUEHANNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR UNION COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds PRIESTLEY FORSYTH MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LINUS ↗

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.

Degenstein Charitable…The 1994 Charles B De…Degenstein Charles B …Community Giving Foun…Fern & Gladys Moyer M…Sunbury Northumberlan…First Community Found…Ppl Foundation2006 Edward S Rosenbl…Central Pennsylvania …Susquehanna Valley Un…S Luther Savidge Trust
Degenstein Charitable FoundationFL55.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Degenstein Charitable Foundation · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr · Community Giving Foundation · Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · Sunbury Northumberland Commtr · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Ppl Foundation · 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Susquehanna Valley United Way · S Luther Savidge Trust

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 Guyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Guyer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Guyer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 53 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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