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Hall Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$205k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
56
Grants FY2025
60
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
60 to 94
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$4.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Hall Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving56$205k11%
FY202460$211k13%
FY202360$182k7%
FY202266$214k18%
FY202163$180k2%
FY202085$256k13%
FY201982$218k16%
FY201894$223k48%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$759kArts & Culture$327kHuman Services$293kYouth Development$168kHealth$159kCommunity Improvement$82kInternational$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Harrisburg Area YMCA$122,60080%
Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc$100,00091%
Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci$57,00075%
Boys & Girls Club of Harrisburginc$32,50032%
Pennsylvania State University$28,0008n/a
Thaddeus Stevens Foundation$28,00070%
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania$27,00090%
Art Association of Harrisburg$24,00092%
Keystone Human Services$19,70080%
Steelton-Highspire Sd$18,0008n/a
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All grantees of Hall Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Harrisburg Area YMCA$122,60080%
Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc$100,00091%
Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci$57,00075%
Boys & Girls Club of Harrisburginc$32,50032%
Pennsylvania State University$28,0008n/a
Thaddeus Stevens Foundation$28,00070%
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania$27,00090%
Art Association of Harrisburg$24,00092%
Keystone Human Services$19,70080%
Steelton-Highspire Sd$18,0008n/a
Dauphin County Technical School$18,0008n/a
World Surgical Foundation Inc$17,50074%
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank$17,00080%
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet$17,00090%
Harrisburg Community Theatre Theatre Harrisburg$16,50081%
Harrisburg Academy$16,00070%
Historic Harrisburg Assoc$15,500113%
National Civil War Museum$12,60090%
Historical Society Dauphin County$12,00091%
The Nativity School of Harrisburg$12,00040%
The Capital Region Literacy Council$12,00055%
Team Ream Foundation$11,500515%
Logos Academy$10,00020%
Grace United Methodist Church$9,0004n/a
Mission Central Inc$8,00050%
New Hope Ministries Inc$7,50070%
River's Edge Christian Academy$7,50030%
Perry County Council of the Arts$7,00080%
Friends of Fort Hunter Inc$7,00073%
Syracuse University$7,00020%
Contact Helpline$6,50080%
Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance$6,50040%
Dauphin County Library System$6,00020%
Goodwill Keystone Area$6,00040%
Homeland Center$5,50030%
Carlisle Arts Learning Center Inc$5,00011%
Messiah University$5,00010%
The Friends School$5,0001n/a
St Josephs Catholic Academy Inc$5,0002n/a
USA Basketball Foundation$5,00010%
Open Stage of Harrisburg$4,50020%
Susquehanna Folk Music Society Inc$4,00051%
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts$3,00010%
Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors Inc$3,00020%
Brethren Housing Association$3,00030%
Philabundance$2,50010%
Villanova University$2,50010%
Medards House$2,50031%
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc$2,50010%
Friends of the West Shore Theatre Inc$2,50010%
Pennon Organization$2,20020%
Shenandoah University$2,00010%
Civic Club of Harrisburg$2,0001n/a
Cleve J Fredricksen Library Association$2,00020%
Children's Miracle Network$2,00010%
Allegheny College$2,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$2,00020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,00020%
Wildlife for Everyone Endowment Foundation$2,00020%
University of Lynchburg$2,00010%
Rochester Institute of Technology$2,00010%
Seton Hill University$2,00010%
Westminster College$2,00010%
The Vista Foundation$2,00020%
Duke University$2,00010%
Dallas Baptist University$2,00010%
University of Pittsburgh$2,00010%
Canine Rescue of Central Pa Inc$2,00021%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$2,00010%
Christ for the Nations$2,0001n/a
Harrisburg Police Athletic League$1,50011%
World Affairs Council of Harrisburg$1,50032%
Susquehanna Art Museum$1,50030%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$1,50010%
Perry County Literacy Council$1,00010%
Camp Hebron Inc$1,00020%
The Lion Foundation$1,00020%
Samaritan's Purse$1,00010%
Elizabethtown College$1,00010%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$1,00010%
York Junior Symphony Orchestra Inc$1,00012%
Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science$1,00020%
Wilson College$1,00010%
Jump Street Inc$8501n/a
Downtown Daily Bread$5001n/a
Aaca Museum Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 103 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hall Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarrisburg Area YMCA: $122,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHarrisburg Symphony Association Inc: $100,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetHarrisburg Area Riverboat Soci: $57,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Harrisburginc: $32,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThaddeus Stevens Foundation: $28,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHospice of Central Pennsylvania: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetArt Association of Harrisburg: $24,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetKeystone Human Services: $19,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Surgical Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Food Bank: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Youth Ballet: $17,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHarrisburg Community Theatre Theatre Harrisburg: $16,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHarrisburg Academy: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Harrisburg Assoc: $15,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetNational Civil War Museum: $12,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHistorical Society Dauphin County: $12,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetThe Nativity School of Harrisburg: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Capital Region Literacy Council: $12,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetTeam Ream Foundation: $11,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetLogos Academy: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMission Central Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew Hope Ministries Inc: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRiver's Edge Christian Academy: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPerry County Council of the Arts: $7,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Fort Hunter Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetSyracuse University: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetContact Helpline: $6,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPennsylvania Family Support Alliance: $6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDauphin County Library System: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGoodwill Keystone Area: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHomeland Center: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarlisle Arts Learning Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMessiah University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Basketball Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOpen Stage of Harrisburg: $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSusquehanna Folk Music Society Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWhitaker Center for Science and the Arts: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPennsylvania Wounded Warriors Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrethren Housing Association: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedards House: $2,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the West Shore Theatre Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPennon Organization: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShenandoah University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCleve J Fredricksen Library Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Miracle Network: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 76.

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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.

The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA76.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

Compare Hall Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Hall Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hall 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.

About Hall Foundation

How much does Hall Foundation give?
Hall Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $204,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 94 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Hall Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Hall Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harrisburg Area YMCA ($123k), Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc ($100k), Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci ($57k).
Does Hall Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hall Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hall Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, United Way of the Capital Region, McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397.
Where is Hall Foundation based?
Hall Foundation is based in PA.

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 190 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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