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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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Human Services$87kEducation$28kPublic Benefit$25kHealth$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kYouth Development$18kFood & Nutrition$6kRecreation & Sports$6k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $13,375, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,720 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,345 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,875
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VFW POST 7530 RELIEF FUND$7,875
VETERANS OUTREACH OF PA$5,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG AREA: $10k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Home Association of Lower Allen VFW Post 7530 Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 94%.

Home Association of Lower Allen VFW Post 7530 Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130k · 5 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$130k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
0%

Still filing today

40%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’25
Public BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • VO
    VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF PENNSYLVANIA
    3× · 2018–2025 · $58k
  • PW
    PENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $21k · revenue +38%
  • VO
    VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES AUX DEPT OF PA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $19k

Funded once

  • WS
    WEST SHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
  • YG
    YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +21%
  • TH
    TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Harman Volunteer Fire Department Inc

None

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2
North Penn Volunteer Fire Company

To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.

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3
Lawrence Park Volunteer Fire Department

Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Longwood Fire Company

Provide fire protection and ambulance services for various townships located in chester county, pa

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Penryn Fire Company 1 Inc

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Somerset Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Lower Burrell Vol Fire #3

To provide fire and ambulance (and other emergency support) for emergency calls for the City of Lower Burrell, PA which has approximately 14,000 residents.

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8
Landisburg Fire Company

Maintain fire and emergency equipment to provide continued protection for all persons in spring township, landisburg boro, and surrounding area

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Lancaster Township Fire Department

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Western Salisbury Volunteer Fire Company

The western salisbury fire department is an all-volunteer service that protects the western section of salisbury township, in lehigh county, pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Seelyville Fire Company

Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Alum Bank Community Fire Company

Provided Fire & Rescue Services to Alum Bank, PA and surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Methodist Home for Children Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF PENNSYLVANIA: $57,875 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF PENNSYLVANIAVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES AUX DEPT OF PA: $18,910 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES AUX DEPT OF PAUNITED METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $18,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN INCWEST SHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $17,500 · OtherWEST SHORE SCHOOL DISTRICTTRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherTRINITY HIGH SCHOOLPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · OtherOperation Veterans' Hope: $6,000 · OtherLIGHT OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $6,000 · OtherLOWER ALLEN FIRE CO #1: $6,000 · OtherVFW 18TH DISTRICT: $6,000 · OtherLISBURN COMMUNITY FIRE COMPANY: $5,900 · Other+1 more: $5,500 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $20,500 · Public BenefitPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED…LEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE INC: $15,000 · Public BenefitLEEK HUNTING AND MOU…VETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,500 · Public BenefitVETERANS OUTREACH OF…YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHIREMANSTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT: $9,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$165,685Public Benefit$41,000Human Services$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$9,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $20,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHIREMANSTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT: $9,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetLOWER ALLEN FIRE CO #1: $6,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetLISBURN COMMUNITY FIRE COMPANY: $5,900 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCAMP HILL BASEBALL COMMITTEE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

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.

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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 Home Association of Lower Allen VFW Post 7530 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Home Association of Lower Allen VFW Post 7530 Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Home Association of Lower Allen VFW Post 7530 Inc 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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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