· Private foundation
Horace B Packer Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR | $50,000 |
| HAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS | $42,145 |
| ELKLAND AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $16,500 |
| KNOXVILLE FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA HEALTH FUND | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $13,000 |
| DEANE CENTER | $10,000 |
| COWANESQUE VALLEY YOUTH FOOTBALL | $10,000 |
| TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTRURAL ASSO | $8,550 |
| WELLSBORO FOUNDATION | $7,942 |
| WESTFIELD CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR | $5,700 |
| WESTFIELD YOUTH BASEBALL | $5,000 |
| ENDLESS MOUNTIANS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $4,985 |
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 (FY17–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 6 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- HGHAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +40%
- WFWELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +64% · 32% of their budget
- PIPARTNERS IN PROGRESS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- TCTIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $87k · revenue +42% · 31% of their budget
- TCTioga Co Partnership for Com Healthone grant, 2018 · $50k
- HTHIS THOUSAND HILLS INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · 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.
To provide volunteer fire and rescue services to the borough of wellsboro and the townships of charleston, delmar and shippen in tioga county pennsylvania.
Library services to community
To provide free library services to all residents of the borough of woodstown and the township of pilesgrove
Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community
Local historical education operation of a museum and provision of education relating to the history of tioga county pennsylvania
Operation of non-profit public liabrary in waterford, pa
Operation of a community library in honey brook, pennsylvania.
The organization operates a library for the use of the general public
Promotion of economic development in and throughout wayne county, pa
Public lending library
To make historical information about wyoming county, pa available to the public
Provode food for families in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellsboro Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Three Springs Ministries Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 97 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 HAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILL COVE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Susquehanna Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ELKLAND AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE OF WELLSBORO ↗
- Who funds THREE SPRINGS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIS THOUSAND HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO SHARED HOMES 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.
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
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 Horace B Packer Foundation 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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