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Horace B Packer Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$226k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,942
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$224k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Horace B Packer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$226k33%
FY202425$185k28%
FY202326$273k58%
FY202218$269k28%
FY202120$227k35%
FY202028$230k29%
FY201927$244k67%
FY201821$187k62%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$328kRecreation & Sports$297kArts & Culture$257kFood & Nutrition$239kEducation$183kCommunity Improvement$141kEnvironment$111kHousing & Shelter$95kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 40 grantees
All grantees of Horace B Packer Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hamilton Gibson Productions Inc$142,99187%
Wellsboro Foundation Inc$130,863832%
Mill Cove Inc$110,000332%
Partners in Progress Inc$94,75771%
Tioga County Agricultural Association$87,000131%
Tioga County Homeless Initiative$65,500311%
Susquehanna Health Foundation$60,0002n/a
Elkland Area Community Library$51,500327%
Deane Center for the Performing Arts Inc$49,78063%
The Learning Tree of Wellsboro$32,26856%
Three Springs Ministries Inc$30,00021%
Wellsboro Elementary PTO$29,50026%
Knoxville Food Pantry$27,5002n/a
Endless Mountain Music Festival Inc$25,00082%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc$24,20050%
Wellsboro Teen Center Inc$22,5957n/a
Wellsboro Area Education Foundation$21,719317%
His Thousand Hills Inc$20,00018%
Harbor Counseling Inc$17,00021%
The River Valley Regional YMCA$15,00010%
Cv Anglers Club$15,0002n/a
Wellsboro Little League$14,100212%
Wellsboro Shared Homes Inc$13,39131%
Mansfield Food Pantry$12,50035%
Tioga Community Food Bank$12,5003n/a
Bradford-Tioga Head Start Inc$12,42430%
Wellsboro Cemetery Company$11,800110%
Liberty Blockhouse Festival Inc$10,0001n/a
Wellsboro Riding Club Inc$10,000131%
Valley Youth Initiative$10,0001n/a
Mansfield Chamber of Commerce$9,895114%
Westfield Public Library$9,00018%
Tioga County Partnership for Community Health$7,50011%
Cowanesque Riding Club Inc$6,0001n/a
Westfield Child Development Center$5,70012%
Haven of Tioga County$4,90011%
Wellsboro Area Youth Soccer$2,5001n/a
Knoxville Public Library$1,90011%
New Creation Events Ministry$1,5001n/a
Laurel Mountain K9 Search & Rescue$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($761k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Horace B Packer Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHamilton Gibson Productions Inc: $142,991 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetWellsboro Foundation Inc: $130,863 over 8y, 32% of budgetMill Cove Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetPartners in Progress Inc: $94,757 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTioga County Agricultural Association: $87,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTioga County Homeless Initiative: $65,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetElkland Area Community Library: $51,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetDeane Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $49,780 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetThe Learning Tree of Wellsboro: $32,268 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetThree Springs Ministries Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWellsboro Elementary PTO: $29,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetEndless Mountain Music Festival Inc: $25,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $24,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWellsboro Area Education Foundation: $21,719 over 3y, 17% of budgetHis Thousand Hills Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetHarbor Counseling Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe River Valley Regional YMCA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWellsboro Little League: $14,100 over 2y, 12% of budgetWellsboro Shared Homes Inc: $13,391 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMansfield Food Pantry: $12,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetBradford-Tioga Head Start Inc: $12,424 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWellsboro Cemetery Company: $11,800 over 1y, 10% of budgetWellsboro Riding Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetMansfield Chamber of Commerce: $9,895 over 1y, 14% of budgetWestfield Public Library: $9,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTioga County Partnership for Community Health: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWestfield Child Development Center: $5,700 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHaven of Tioga County: $4,900 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKnoxville Public Library: $1,900 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Earl W and Ina G Tabor FoundationPA60.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Earl W and Ina G Tabor Foundation · Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation · Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet Foundation · David G Patterson Foundation · Deerfield Charitable Trust · Dunham Family Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Baker Foundation · Marsha Kay Mase Foundation · Lutes Foundation Co First Citizens Community · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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.

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About Horace B Packer Foundation Inc

How much does Horace B Packer Foundation Inc give?
Horace B Packer Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $225,647 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Horace B Packer Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (16%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Horace B Packer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hamilton Gibson Productions Inc ($143k), Wellsboro Foundation Inc ($131k), Mill Cove Inc ($110k).
Does Horace B Packer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Horace B Packer Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Horace B Packer Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Earl W and Ina G Tabor Foundation, Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation, Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet Foundation.
Where is Horace B Packer Foundation Inc based?
Horace B Packer Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 97 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-PF 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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