· Private foundation
Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVI | $126,750 |
| AMERICAN RESCUE WORKERS | $56,000 |
| SHEPHERD OF THE STREETS | $40,000 |
| STEP INC | $25,000 |
| RIVER VALLEY YMCA | $20,000 |
| SOJOURNER TRUTH MINISTRIES | $12,969 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY | $7,915 |
| NEW COVENANT UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIS | $6,990 |
| DWELL ORPHAN CARE | $5,000 |
| UNITED CHURCHES OF LYCOMING COUNTY | $5,000 |
| PENN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY CASA | $5,000 |
| RIVER VALLEY YMCA | $4,000 |
| RIVER VALLEY YMCA | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +21%
- JVJAMES V BROWN LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +12%
- FPFIRETREE PLACE8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- WKWB KONKLE MEMORIAL LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- WEWEST END CHRISTIAN COMMUNITYone grant, 2022 · $15k
- HEHOPE ENTERPRISES INCone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +22%
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.
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.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
The mission of the center for independent living of central pennsylvania is to eliminate and prevent barriers that people with disabilities experience.
Goodwill industries of the chesapeake, inc. prepares people to secure and retain employment and build successful, independent lives.
Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.
Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.
Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.
The center in the woods' mission is to provide the highest quality of life for older adults in southwestern pennsylvania.
Central pennsylvania july 4th, inc is a non-profit organization comprimised of a team of volunteers and sponsors dedicated to celebrating america's independence with a day of family fun and the best all-volunteer fireworks display in the…
Civil justice for those in need, their homes secured, families protected, and finances fortified.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FIRETREE PLACE ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUSQUE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP CADET ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYCOMING HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Susquehanna Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds DWELL - LYCOMING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATRE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds EXPECTATIONS WOMENS CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Abram M Snyder Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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