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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$7.9MReligion$338kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $177k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $801k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $589k
$10,890
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%ARCHBISHOP WOOD HIGH SCHOOL: $58k → 6%DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY: $55k → 10%DIOCESE OF SCRANTON: $58k → 13%INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $107k → 22%ARCHBISHOP WOOD HIGH SCHOOL: $42k → 6%REGINA COELI ACADEMY: $83k → 7%NITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $284k → 16%REGINA COELI ACADEMY: $77k → 7%NITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $192k → 16%NITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $126k → 16%REGINA COELI ACADEMY: $43k → 7%NITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $108k → 16%PEN RYN SCHOOL: $101k → 6%PEN RYN SCHOOL: $99k → 6%CARDINAL O'HARA HIGH SCHOOL: $119k → 10%PEN RYN SCHOOL: $99k → 6%CARDINAL O'HARA HIGH SCHOOL: $60k → 10%PEN RYN SCHOOL: $98k → 6%POPE JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $47k → 7%ARCHBISHOP RYAN HIGH SCHOOL: $54k → 22%REGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $189k → 10%REGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $177k → 10%REGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $154k → 10%ST CHARLES BORROMEO SCHOOL: $73k → 6%ST EPHREM SCHOOL: $50k → 6%ST EPHREM SCHOOL: $50k → 6%ST EPHREM SCHOOL: $50k → 6%ST CHARLES BORROMEO SCHOOL: $49k → 6%ANCILLAE ASSUMPTA ACADEMY: $69k → 7%ST CHARLES BORROMEO SCHOOL: $45k → 6%ANCILLAE ASSUMPTA ACADEMY: $63k → 7%ANCILLAE ASSUMPTA ACADEMY: $56k → 7%BISHOP MCDEVITT HIGH SCHOOL: $54k → 7%REGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY: $67k → 6%REGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY: $47k → 6%JOHN W HALLAHAN CATHOLIC GIRLS HIGH: $73k → 22%INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $54k → 7%FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL: $129k → 22%MOUNT ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY: $191k → 7%FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL: $114k → 22%MOUNT ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY: $99k → 7%FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL: $114k → 22%MOUNT ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY: $77k → 7%BRIDGE WAY SCHOOL: $50k → 22%ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $180k → 22%ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $114k → 22%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI SCHOOL: $77k → 7%ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $96k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 108 repeat orgs$422k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
17

Total granted

$7.8M
$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+12%

Still filing today

31%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    NITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $710k · revenue +48%
  • RA
    REGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $525k · revenue +149%
  • RC
    REGINA COELI ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $237k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • JW
    JOHN W HALLAHAN CATHOLIC GIRLS HIGH
    one grant, 2021 · $73k
  • BM
    BISHOP MCDEVITT HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $54k
  • BW
    BRIDGE WAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Christian Academy

The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.

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2
Manhattan Christian School

Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth

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3
Mckinney Christian School

Mckinney christian academy exists to honor jesus christ by teaching students to live biblically through education of mind, body, and spirit.

Education
4
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson

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…

Education
5
John Paul the Great Academy

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.

Education
6
Philips Academy Charter School Inc

Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.

Education
7
Providence Christian Academy

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.

Education
8
Presbyterian Day School

Presbyterian day school strives to glorify god by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and men.

Education
9
Episcopal Academy

Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.

Education
10
Liberty Classical Academy

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.

Education
11
Providence Christian Academy

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…

Education
12
St Stephens Academy

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery School; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 132 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/42
Grantees still filing
32/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOUNT ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY: $398,910 · OtherMOUNT ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMYPEN RYN SCHOOL: $396,000 · OtherPEN RYN SCHOOLROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $389,865 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLFATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL: $356,895 · OtherFATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOLANCILLAE ASSUMPTA ACADEMY: $225,440 · OtherST CHARLES BORROMEO SCHOOL: $198,000 · OtherOFFICE OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION: $182,283 · Other+90 more: $3,261,728 · Other+90 moreNITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $709,893 · EducationNITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLREGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $525,246 · EducationREGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMYREGINA COELI ACADEMY: $237,455 · EducationREGINA COELI ACADEMYINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $184,073 · EducationINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLSPLUMSTEAD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $168,927 · EducationPLUMSTEAD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLREGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY: $153,945 · EducationREGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY+29 more: $857,226 · Education+29 more
Other$5,409,121Education$2,836,765

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $709,893 over 4y, 21% of budgetREGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY: $525,246 over 4y, 12% of budgetREGINA COELI ACADEMY: $237,455 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $184,073 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPLUMSTEAD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $168,927 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetREGINA LUMINIS ACADEMY: $153,945 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetDREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC: $82,447 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetALLIANCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $81,788 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL: $76,824 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $73,384 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $67,221 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $64,350 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetThe City School: $49,155 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $43,432 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLA SALLE ACADEMY: $34,850 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHunting Park Christian Academy: $34,650 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $30,195 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPA FAMILIES FOR EDUCATION CHOICE: $25,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetREGINA ACADEMY AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST: $24,750 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WYNDCROFT SCHOOL: $21,606 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKOHELET YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $20,049 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR GROVE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $19,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $19,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY: $19,800 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetATG LEARNING ACADEMY: $19,800 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWEST-MONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $17,374 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY SCHOOL: $16,880 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPERKIOMEN SCHOOL: $14,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLNEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $14,850 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL: $14,405 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMINING AND MECHANICAL INSTITUTE MMI PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $14,404 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $11,553 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $10,395 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10,084 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIS KOSLOFF TORAH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $10,083 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $8,662 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJUBILEE SCHOOL: $7,425 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7,203 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILL TOP PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5,940 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $4,802 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Business Leadership O…Central Pennsylvania …Connelly FoundationThe Cedarcrest Charit…The Howley FoundationThe Maguire FoundationChubb Charitable Foun…United Way of Greater…The Philadelphia Foun…The Cigna Group Found…Childrens Jubilee FundAmbassadors Fund for …
Business Leadership Organized for Catholic SchoolsPA104.4× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Henkels Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henkels Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Henkels Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Henkels 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.

    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 132 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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