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Hall Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k53 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICAN | $20,000 |
| HARRISBURG AREA YMCA | $15,000 |
| ELEGANT PROGRESSIONS HISTORIC HARRI | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| RED LAND HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH FRIENDS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| CARLISLE ARTS LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| HARRISBURG AREA RIVERBOAT SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES | $3,500 |
| PENN STATE HARRISBURG | $3,500 |
| SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| HERSHEY HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
120 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 70 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- HAHARRISBURG AREA YMCA8× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +34%
- TSTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +32%
- HOHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $23k
- HHHistoric Harrisburg Assocgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue +225%
- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
See schedule othe harrisburg university of science and technology offers innovative academic and research programs in science and technology that respond to local and global needs. the institution fosters a diverse community of learners,…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
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…
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…
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
York college prepares graduates for fulfilling, productive, and purposeful lives by providing high quality programs of study supported by relevant real-world experiences. continued on schedule o.as a rich and diverse community of educators…
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennon Organization and the most unlike its peers is Aaca Museum Inc. 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 46 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 190 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 HARRISBURG AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC ↗
- Who funds THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WORLD SURGICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
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 Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Lawrence L & Julia Z Hoverter Charitable Foundation · McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta
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 Hall 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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