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Houser Family Foundation

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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$152kHousing & Shelter$98kReligion$95kEnvironment$55kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$3kPhilanthropy$500Health$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$3,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$159k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$21,000
CORNWALL MANOR$17,186
SAINT CECILIA CHURCH$12,500
LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY$5,150
HISTORIC SCHAEFFERSTOWN$4,461
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$3,300
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$500
LEBANON RESCUE MISSION$200
SALVATION ARMY - LEBANON$200
Individual grant recipient$200
Individual grant recipient$200
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%CORNWALL MANOR: $76k → 11%CORNWALL MANOR: $17k → 11%CORNWALL MANOR: $5k → 11%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.

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$250k · 6 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$250k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+36%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesReligionHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • HS
    HISTORIC SCHAEFFERSTOWN INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue -31% · 63% of their budget
  • CM
    CORNWALL MANOR
    3× · 2021–2025 · $98k · revenue +6%
  • TL
    THE LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue -14%

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEART OF JESUS
    one grant, 2023 · $82k
  • SW
    SWATARA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $42k · revenue 0%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE - GILMORE CAR MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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
Lebanon Historical Society
2
Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce

Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania

3
Historical Society of Mount Lebanon

The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.

Arts & Culture
4
Leechburg Area Museum & Hist Society Inc

Preserving the history and cultural artifacts from the Western Pennsylvania town of Leechburg.

5
Penns Valley Conservation Association

To serve as a steward for the natural and cultural communities in the upper Penns Creek Watershed. We seek to preserve and Honor the agricultural roots of Penns Valley by protecting and conserving its waters, farmland, forests and rural…

Environment
6
Ligonier Valley Rail Road Association

To preserve the legacy of the Ligonier Valley Rail Road, conserve its vestiges, collect its relics & memorabilia, and educate the public about railroad history in the Ligonier Valley.

Arts & Culture
7
Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum Inc

Preserve the history of railroads that served the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania area through the construction and public exhibition of a model replica of the railroad operations and communities they serve

Arts & Culture
8
Lehigh County Historical Society

To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public

Arts & Culture
9
Lebanon Outing Club Inc
10
Westmoreland Land Trust

To conserve and steward lands and waters of Westmoreland County that harbor ecological, cultural or recreational qualities to offer a healthier and more sustainable future for all.

Environment
11
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc

To protect the quality & beauty of the wissahickon creek & to enhance life in the watershed.

Environment
12
Wyoming County Historical Society

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lebanon County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Wenger Foundation 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HISTORIC SCHAEFFERSTOWN INC — $124,761 · OtherHISTORIC SCHAEFFERSTOWN INCSACRED HEART OF JESUS — $82,100 · OtherSACRED HEART OF JESUSLEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $21,000 · OtherLEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYSAINT CECILIA CHURCH — $12,500 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $10,555 · Other+8 more — $8,832 · OtherCORNWALL MANOR — $98,186 · Human ServicesCORNWALL MANORSWATARA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $42,110 · EnvironmentSWATARA WATERSH…THE LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC — $13,150 · EnvironmentTHE LEBANON VAL…Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust — $1,000 · Arts & CultureWENGER FOUNDATION INC — $500 · PhilanthropyAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc — $500 · HealthON-FIRE YOUTH MINISTRIES — $100 · Religion
Other$259,748Human Services$98,186Environment$55,260Arts & Culture$1,000Philanthropy$500Health$500Religion$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHISTORIC SCHAEFFERSTOWN INC — $124,761 over 5y, 63% of budgetCORNWALL MANOR — $98,186 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $21,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC — $13,150 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetColebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENGER FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetON-FIRE YOUTH MINISTRIES — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $100 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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Houser Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Houser Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Houser Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 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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