· Private foundation
Holmes Chas a & Eliz Guy Fdn
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,500 |
| CAMP HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,300 |
| WARWICK VALLEY CHORALE | $1,400 |
| CAMP HILL HIGH SCHOOL | $1,200 |
| COLUMBIA PRO CANTARE | $1,000 |
| DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD | $1,000 |
| VISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PA | $1,000 |
| HARRISBURG SINGERS | $1,000 |
| THE WEDNESDAY CLUB | $1,000 |
| GREATER HARRISBURG CONCERT BAND | $1,000 |
| EAST PENNSBORO HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC DEP | $800 |
| SUSQUEHANNA CHORALE | $750 |
| HARRISBURG CHORALE SOCIETY | $750 |
| PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL BALLET | $400 |
| FRIENDS OF PORT JERVIS ART & HISTORY | $400 |
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 (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- HSHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +1%
- TSTHE SUSQUEHANNA CHORALE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +57%
- WCWednesday Club7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +837% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- GHGREATER HARRISBURG CONCERT BAND INCone grant, 2025 · $1k
- EPEAST PENNSBORO HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC DEPone grant, 2025 · $800
- HCHARRISBURG CHORALE SOCIETYone grant, 2025 · $750
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.
Performs classical music for the community
Our approximately 75 member community chorus performs choral concerts each season, bringing the community the opportunity to hear the finest masterworks choral music. We work with local high schools and colleges to offer scholarships to…
Presentation of symphony orchestra and chamber music concerts benefiting 50-700 patrons per event
The Carolyn Mawby Chorale provides auditioned singers and the community opportunities to experience outstanding and diverse choral performances.
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
To perform innovative choral music for arts-loving audiences by presenting unique artistic experiences drawn from a variety of musical genres & diverse cultural traditions.
Since 1991, the Ambler Choral Society provides quality classical choral music to the greater Ambler community. We have performed at least two concerts each year except during the covid pandemic. The Choral Society has participated in many…
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
Chorus Pro Musica Inc is a volunteer performing arts organization comprised of auditioned singers with a mission to provide innovative programming that include both classical and new works that inspire singers and listeners alike.
Promotion of musical training and appreciation
The Houston Choral Society is a professional quality civic chorus dedicated to performing great choral music to enrich the soul and advance the choral arts to Houston audiences and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wednesday Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA PRO CANTARE LTD ↗
- Who funds THE SUSQUEHANNA CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds Wednesday Club ↗
- Who funds THE HARRISBURG SINGERS ↗
- Who funds VISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL BALLET ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS ↗
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: McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Holmes Chas a & Eliz Guy Fdn 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.