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Henkels Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $177k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $801k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $589k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $126,171 |
| INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS | $106,516 |
| PEN RYN SCHOOL | $99,000 |
| MOUNT ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY | $77,470 |
| ANCILLAE ASSUMPTA ACADEMY | $63,212 |
| ARCHBISHOP WOOD HIGH SCHOOL | $58,361 |
| DIOCESE OF SCRANTON | $57,968 |
| POPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL | $46,805 |
| HARRISBURG CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHO | $40,771 |
| PLUMSTEAD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $39,200 |
| QUAKERTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $38,558 |
| YORK CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $38,020 |
| REGINA COELI ACADEMY | $34,650 |
| ST CATHERINE OF SIENA SCHOOL - READ | $33,858 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO SCHOOL | $31,517 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 7 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
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
- NCNITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $710k · revenue +48%
- RAREGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY4× · 2021–2024 · $525k · revenue +149%
- RCREGINA COELI ACADEMY4× · 2021–2024 · $237k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- JWJOHN W HALLAHAN CATHOLIC GIRLS HIGHone grant, 2021 · $73k
- BMBISHOP MCDEVITT HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $54k
- BWBRIDGE WAY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth
Mckinney christian academy exists to honor jesus christ by teaching students to live biblically through education of mind, body, and spirit.
We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…
John paul the great is a private, pk4-12 independent school committed to teaching an exemplary, rigorous classical curriculum, and a comprehensive understanding of the roman catholic faith.
Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.
In dependence upon Almighty God, for His glory alone, and together with family and church, the mission of Providence Christian Academy is to provide exemplary education for the vulnerable in the light of God's Word for time and eternity.
Presbyterian day school strives to glorify god by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and men.
Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.
Liberty classical academy is an independent private school offering college-preparatory academics and christian faith in the classical tradition for minneapolis-st. paul students in preschool and kindergarten through the 12th grade.
Providence equips students for lives of wisdom, virtue, and eloquence to the glory of god by teaching them to love what is true, good, and beautiful, using the scriptures and the classical liberal arts, and assisting parents in fulfilling…
As a classical christian school, st. stephen's academy aims to provide an academically excellent education in a grace-filled environment that develops christian character and equips students with tools of learning that will last a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery School and the most unlike its peers is Sophia Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 132 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 NITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds REGINA COELI ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PLUMSTEAD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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: Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Connelly Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The Howley Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Childrens Jubilee Fund · Ambassadors Fund for Catholic Edu Archdiocesan Educational Fund
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 Henkels 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.
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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