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Hackenberg-Schol at a glance

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Hackenberg-Schol

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
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$345k
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$768
Median grant
6
States reached
$873k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY FBO CAMRON$4,659
COMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURG$4,659
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO NICHOLAS FLECK$4,658
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO GABRIEL$4,658
WILKES UNIVERSITY FBO MERCEDEZ FARR$2,563
INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$2,096
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO PIERCE HOFFER$2,002
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO JOEL LANGDON$1,538
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY FBO RYAN BICKHAR$1,240
COMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURG$1,224
COMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURG$1,135
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO KALEB EGER$1,118
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH FBO EMILY$978
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY$838
HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY FBO SETH YODER$782
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY FBO CAMRON: $5k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY FBOLUKE GOODWIN: $628 → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH FBO AVERY: $768 → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO GABRIEL: $5k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $838 → 12%GROVE CITY COLLEGE FBO EVAN YODER: $350 → 13%PENNWEST CLARION FBO XAVIER GODOWN: $524 → 14%COMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURG: $5k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 14%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY FBO RYAN BICKHAR: $1k → 16%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $583 → 14%HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY FBO SETH YODER: $782 → 19%UNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA BEAUFORT: $698 → 10%AUBURN UNIVERSITY FBO BRODEY SCOGGINS: $420 → 15%UNITED STATES COAST GUARD ACADEMY: $420 → 9%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FBO KELLY HAUSE: $524 → 20%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH FBO LUKE ROUP: $507 → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO NICHOLAS FLECK: $5k → 11%LYCOMING COLLEGE FBO CARTER LILLEY: $698 → 12%COMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURG: $1k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $587 → 14%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY FBO ADDYSON: $524 → 16%HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY FBO EPHRAIM LANGDO: $520 → 19%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH FBO EMILY: $978 → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO PIERCE HOFFER: $2k → 11%COMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURG: $1k → 14%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO JOEL LANGDON: $2k → 11%COMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURG: $507 → 14%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO KALEB EGER: $1k → 11%COMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURG: $470 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
CT
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
AL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$174k · 35 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
30

Total granted

$174k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+16%

Still filing today

49%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • Bucknell University
    5× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +45%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +44%
  • WU
    WILKES UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • BU
    BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO DILLAN
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • HG
    HORRY GEORGETOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FBO
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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8
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gettysburg College; the most unlike its peers is Elizabethtown College. 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

21 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. 21 of the 81 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY: $11,502 · OtherBLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITYPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $11,178 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYBUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO NICHOLAS FLECK: $9,104 · OtherBUCKNELL UNIVERSITY FBO NICHOLAS FLECKCOMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURG: $7,995 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH UNIV OF PA-BLOOMSBURGPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $6,588 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,411 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,068 · Other+53 more: $84,032 · Other+53 moreBucknell University: $58,264 · EducationBucknell UniversityELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $11,279 · EducationELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $8,735 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHWILKES UNIVERSITY: $6,411 · EducationWILKES UNIVERSITYLYCOMING COLLEGE: $3,952 · Education+16 more: $28,584 · Education+16 more
Other$140,878Education$117,225

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBucknell University: $58,264 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $11,279 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $8,735 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $6,411 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLYCOMING COLLEGE: $3,952 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA COLLEGE: $3,885 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,602 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $2,939 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $2,624 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $2,436 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $2,149 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,986 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $1,672 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $1,509 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $1,290 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,114 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $1,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $962 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $767 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $345 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $294 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Dreifuss R ScholVerizon FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dreifuss R ScholMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dreifuss R Schol · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Hackenberg-Schol funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hackenberg-Schol. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Stevenson University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 81 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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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