· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,500 |
| CAMP HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,300 |
| WARWICK VALLEY CHORALE | $1,400 |
| CAMP HILL HIGH SCHOOL | $1,200 |
| VISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PA | $1,000 |
| COLUMBIA PRO CANTARE | $1,000 |
| HARRISBURG SINGERS | $1,000 |
| DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD | $1,000 |
| GREATER HARRISBURG CONCERT BAND | $1,000 |
| THE WEDNESDAY CLUB | $1,000 |
| EAST PENNSBORO HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC DEP | $800 |
| HARRISBURG CHORALE SOCIETY | $750 |
| SUSQUEHANNA CHORALE | $750 |
| PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL BALLET | $400 |
| FRIENDS OF PORT JERVIS ART & HISTORY | $400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Holmes Chas a & Eliz Guy Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holmes Chas a & Eliz Guy Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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