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Horace B Packer Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$226k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$7,942
Median grant
1
States reached
$224k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COWANESQUE VALLEY YOUTH FOOTBALL$10,000
DEANE CENTER$10,000
TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTRURAL ASSO$8,550
WELLSBORO FOUNDATION$7,942
WESTFIELD CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR$5,700
ENDLESS MOUNTIANS MUSIC FESTIVAL$5,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$5,000
WESTFIELD YOUTH BASEBALL$5,000
TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL$4,985
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%River Valley Regional YMCA: $15k → 12%Tioga County Homeless Initiative: $3k → 12%WESTFIELD CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR: $6k → 12%TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE: $38k → 12%TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE: $25k → 12%Wellsboro Montessori Center: $19k → 12%Wellsboro Montessori Children's Center: $6k → 12%Wellsboro Montessori Children's Center: $4k → 12%HAVEN of Tioga County: $3k → 12%LEARNING TREE OF WELLSBORO: $2k → 12%HAVEN of Tioga County: $2k → 12%LEARNING TREE OF WELLSBORO: $1k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 42 repeat orgs$490k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
49

Total granted

$1.5M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+43%

Still filing today

43%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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

  • HG
    HAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +40%
  • WF
    WELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +64% · 32% of their budget
  • PI
    PARTNERS IN PROGRESS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • TC
    TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $87k · revenue +42% · 31% of their budget
  • TC
    Tioga Co Partnership for Com Health
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • HT
    HIS THOUSAND HILLS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue 0%
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
Wellsboro Fire Department

To provide volunteer fire and rescue services to the borough of wellsboro and the townships of charleston, delmar and shippen in tioga county pennsylvania.

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2
Towanda Public Library

Library services to community

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3
Woodstown-Pilesgrove Library Association

To provide free library services to all residents of the borough of woodstown and the township of pilesgrove

Education
4
Western Pocono Community Library

Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community

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5
Tioga County Historical Society

Local historical education operation of a museum and provision of education relating to the history of tioga county pennsylvania

Arts & Culture
6
Waterford Public Library

Operation of non-profit public liabrary in waterford, pa

Education
7
Honey Brook Community Library

Operation of a community library in honey brook, pennsylvania.

Education
8
Whitehall Township Public Library

The organization operates a library for the use of the general public

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9
Wayne Economic Development Corp

Promotion of economic development in and throughout wayne county, pa

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10
Taylor Community Library Association

Public lending library

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11
Wyoming County Historical Society

To make historical information about wyoming county, pa available to the public

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12
Wellsboro Area Food Pantry

Provode food for families in need.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellsboro Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 97 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIOGA CO PARTNERSHIP FOR COMM HEALTH: $159,512 · OtherTIOGA CO PARTNERSHIP FOR COMM HEALTHTioga Co Partnership for Com Health: $50,000 · OtherTIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR: $50,000 · OtherAmerican Red Cross-Tioga County: $39,000 · OtherSusquehanna Health Foundation: $60,000 · OtherSusquehanna Health Foundation+75 more: $744,690 · Other+75 moreHAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS INC: $142,991 · Arts & CultureHAMILTON GIBSON PRO…WELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC: $130,863 · Arts & CultureWELLSBORO FOUNDATIO…DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $49,780 · Arts & CultureDEANE CENTER FOR TH…ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureENDLESS MOUNTAIN MU…TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE: $65,500 · Human ServicesTHE LEARNING TREE OF WELLSBORO: $32,268 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL YMCA: $15,000 · Human ServicesWESTFIELD CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5,700 · Human ServicesHAVEN OF TIOGA COUNTY: $4,900 · Human ServicesELKLAND AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $51,500 · EducationWELLSBORO ELEMENTARY PTO: $29,500 · EducationWELLSBORO AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,719 · EducationBRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC: $12,424 · EducationTIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH: $7,500 · EducationMILL COVE INC: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentPARTNERS IN PROGRESS INC: $94,757 · EmploymentTIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION: $87,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,103,202Arts & Culture$348,634Human Services$123,368Education$122,643Youth Development$110,000Employment$94,757Community Improvement$87,000

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 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Tabo…Charles Knox & Margar…Ernest L & Mildred Ro…David G Patterson Fou…Deerfield Charitable …Dunham Family Foundat…First Community Found…Northwest Charitable …Baker FoundationMarsha Kay Mase Found…Lutes Foundation Co F…Central Pennsylvania …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Horace B Packer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Horace B Packer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Horace B Packer Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Horace B Packer Foundation 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 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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