Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Header Family 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.
- $539k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 38
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Header Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $539k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $535k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $534k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $21k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alvernia University | $1,500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Upper Canyon Outreach | $17,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Mission Church Myerstown | $11,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Foundation for Free Enterprise Education | $4,985 | 3 | 0% |
| North Star Initiative | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Milagro House Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Clare House Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Water Street Ministries | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Adalyn Rose Foundation | $3,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Keystone Hook & Ladder Company No 1 | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Header Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Header Family Foundation
- How much does Header Family Foundation give?
- Header Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $539,351 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 38 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Header Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Health (1%), Community Improvement (1%).
- Who are Header Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Alvernia University ($1.5M), Upper Canyon Outreach ($18k), Mission Church Myerstown ($12k).
- Does Header Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Header Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Header Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Ppl Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Header Family Foundation based?
- Header Family Foundation is based in PA.
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