· Public charity
Home Association of Lower Allen VFW Post 7530 Inc
The objects of this corporation are the maintenance of a club for social enjoyments and to provide facilities for lawful games, amusements, and social activities for and among its members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $120,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $264,378 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $143,478 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k7 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VFW POST 7530 RELIEF FUND | $25,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN | $11,500 |
| TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PA WOUNDED WARRIORS | $10,000 |
| YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG AREA | $10,000 |
| CEDAR CLIFF HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE | $7,500 |
| ALLEN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| OPERATION VETERANS HOPE | $6,000 |
| BLESSINGS OF HOPE | $6,000 |
| VFW 18TH DISTRICT | $6,000 |
| LISBURN COMMUNITY FIRE CO | $5,900 |
| LOWER ALLEN VFW POST 7530 AUXILIARY | $5,500 |
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 (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Home Association of Lower Allen VFW Post 7530 Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- VOVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF PENNSYLVANIA2× · 2018–2019 · $50k
- PWPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC2× · 2018–2019 · $21k · revenue +38%
- VOVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES AUX DEPT OF PA2× · 2018–2019 · $19k
Funded once
- SFSHIREMANSTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +10%
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $8k
- LALOWER ALLEN FIRE CO #1one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.
Volunteer fire company
Provide fire protection and rescue services to the community
Provided Fire & Rescue Services to Alum Bank, PA and surrounding area.
Protection of property and lives in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
Provide fire protection services to residents of and businesses in lehman township and portions of middle smithfield township
Provide fire relief
Maintain fire and emergency equipment to provide continued protection for all persons in spring township, landisburg boro, and surrounding area
Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.
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…
Provides fire protection and ambulance service
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Methodist Home for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shiremanstown Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 PENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds SHIREMANSTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds LOWER ALLEN FIRE CO #1 ↗
- Who funds LISBURN COMMUNITY FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CAMP HILL BASEBALL COMMITTEE 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.
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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 Home Association of Lower Allen VFW Post 7530 Inc 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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