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· Private foundation

Hoover Samuel L Tua

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.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$586k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,922
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
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Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
Individual grant recipient$3,922
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY: $13k → 8%WILSON COLLEGE: $7k → 9%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $7k → 9%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 10%KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%DESALES UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $4k → 11%CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $11k → 12%THIEL COLLEGE: $4k → 13%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $10k → 13%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $11k → 20%TOWSON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%WILSON COLLEGE: $4k → 9%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $5k → 9%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%DESALES UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $9k → 12%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $5k → 9%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 10%CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 12%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $8k → 20%SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $5k → 9%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $4k → 9%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $14k → 8%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $13k → 8%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $12k → 8%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $9k → 8%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $8k → 8%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $5k → 8%MESSIAH COLLEGE: $5k → 8%MESSIAH COLLEGE: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$495k · 31 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
6

Total granted

$495k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+3%

Still filing today

55%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • DICKINSON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +39%
  • GC
    GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +18%
  • LU
    LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $31k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • WC
    WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +7%
  • Queens University of Charlotte
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • AU
    ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
7
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

9
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

11
Wesleyan University

Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…

Education
12
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gettysburg College and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 85 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr17%0%20–35yr15%9%35–55yr17%86%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr17%0%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr17%87%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,140

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DICKINSON COLLEGE — $64,928 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGEGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $31,295 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGELIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $30,500 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INCMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $18,734 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITYTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $18,270 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Educa…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $17,270 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYWILSON COLLEGE — $17,270 · EducationWILSON COLLEGEDESALES UNIVERSITY — $16,320 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $16,320 · EducationTHIEL COLLEGE — $13,504 · EducationBucknell University — $13,410 · EducationLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $11,820 · Education+10 more — $52,013 · Education+10 morePENN STATE UNIVERSITY — $39,558 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY — $38,454 · OtherSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA — $27,250 · OtherCALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PAARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY — $18,500 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY — $11,684 · OtherTOWSON UNIVERSITY — $11,250 · OtherHARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $9,069 · Other+29 more — $108,538 · Other+29 more
Education$321,654Other$264,303

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE — $64,928 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $31,295 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $30,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $18,734 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $18,270 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $17,270 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON COLLEGE — $17,270 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY — $16,320 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $16,320 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHIEL COLLEGE — $13,504 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University — $13,410 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $11,820 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $9,184 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $8,734 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $4,734 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $4,734 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY — $4,734 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte — $3,209 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE — $1,684 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 DICKINSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WILSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THIEL COLLEGE
  • Who funds Bucknell University
  • Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
  • Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY

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.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Hoover Samuel L Tua 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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