· Private foundation
J Melvin & Beulah M Isett Comm Fdn
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.
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 $10k10 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $101,651 |
| ISETT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY HUNTINGDON | $5,000 |
| HUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $3,000 |
| HUNTINGDON COUNTY LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| HUNTINGDON FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| HUNTINGDON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| HUNTINGDON CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| HUNTINGDON HOUSE | $2,500 |
| CROSSROADS PREGENCY CENTER | $2,000 |
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, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- HCHUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +36%
- HCHUNTINGDON COUNTY LIBRARY7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +34%
- JBJC Blair Memorial Hospital2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- HPHUNTINGDON POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- MBMARKLEYSBURG BOROUGH COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $31k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Fire, Rescue & Emergency Medical Services
Huntingdon county business and industry, incorporated (corporation) is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, recreational, educational, agricultural and civic interests of the county of huntingdon.
Preserve County History
To help provide nutrishous food to the low income residents of huntingdon county
Preserving the ongoing heritage of the Town of Huntington
Promotion of agriculture and the providing of the property to other non-profit organizations such as 4-h, boy scouts, ffa and grange.
To provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and their families
The huntington county humane society exists to protect and provide shelter for animals and to encourage the humane treatment of all animals in huntington county.
To collect, preserve, interpret and promote interest in the history of huntington county, indiana. the society presents its collection to the public through exhibitions, educational programs and publications.
The Huntingdon Valley Cemetery and Chapel Company is committed to preserving its historic cemetery and its Chapel in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.
To provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.
We are a christian community lovingly serving our neighbors in need through programs that empower and transform lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Huntingdon Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Bricktown Model Railroaders Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 33 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 RAISETOWN CARE CONNECT ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds JC Blair Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON REGIONAL FIRE AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Smithfield Township Volunteer Fire Company No 1 ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY HUNTINGDON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRICKTOWN MODEL RAILROADERS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation · 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 J Melvin & Beulah M Isett Comm Fdn 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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