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Hackett Philanthropies 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| BREHM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| FORK OVER LOVE | $10,000 |
| COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| WYOMING VALLEY CATHOLIC YOUTH CENTER | $7,500 |
| COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA | $5,000 |
| NEPA RACING INC | $4,500 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER | $1,200 |
| OPERATION HEAD STRONG | $1,000 |
| COFFEE INCLUSIVE | $1,000 |
| POLAND MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| ADOPT A SINGLE MOTHER | $1,000 |
| PA FUTURE EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION | $750 |
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 (FY17–25, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- COCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +55%
- TBTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE3× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +3%
- MFMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2023 · $61k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- VIVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +38%
- OCOPERATION CHRISTMAS CARDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- LTLET THERE BE MOM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +37%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Wvia public media is a catalyst, convener and educator, using media, partnerships, powerful ideas and programs to improve lives and advance the best attributes of an enlightened society.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Luzerne Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hazleton Art League. 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 27 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 86 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 CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CRESTWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds FORK OVER LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LET THERE BE MOM INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds NEPA RACING INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE REEDY RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF HAZLETON AREA SCHUYLKILL AND CARBON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOLD GOLD BROADCAST AND MEDIA FOUND ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
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 Tambur Family Foundation · Allone Charities · The Luzerne Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Sordoni Family Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · Allone Foundation · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · Benevento and Mayo Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc
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 Hackett Philanthropies 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.
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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