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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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $39k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| UPPER CANYON OUTREACH | $7,500 |
| MISSION CHURCH MYERSTOWN | $4,500 |
| ADALYN ROSE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION | $2,085 |
| PAWS | $1,250 |
| GREEN STREET RESCUE | $1,030 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FIRST FRUITS FARM | $1,000 |
| ECHOES | $1,000 |
| LEBANON RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| CEDAR CREEK PHEASANTS FOREVER | $1,000 |
| CLARE HOUSE | $1,000 |
| PINE GROVE COMMUNITY GARDEN | $1,000 |
| WATER STREET MISSION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AUALVERNIA UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +9%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +21%
- NSNORTH STAR INITIATIVE4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TITODAY IS A GOOD DAYone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- CWCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +28%
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Affilia home health is a community service organization in pennsylvania that provides comprehensive home health care to people of all ages in lancaster, berks, chester, schuylkill and dauphin counties and their surrounding area, regardless…
The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
To provide a continuum of care for homeless individuals that leads toward self-sufficiency.
To preserve life and promote health and safety in our community.
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
Volunteer fire company
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Street Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Bethel Community Ambulance. 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 35 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 62 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 ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CLARE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ADALYN ROSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Keystone Hook & Ladder Company No 1 ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LEBANON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CAREER & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEPTUNE FIRE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MARION VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LEBANON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING ↗
- Who funds ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KUTZTOWN COMMUNITY FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GREEN STREET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TODAY IS A GOOD DAY ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF 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 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
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 Header Family 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.
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% 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.