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John and Jeanette Witmer Charitable Co Pnc

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.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$196kHealth$123kReligion$65kArts & Culture$39kHuman Services$38kHousing & Shelter$32kPhilanthropy$8kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$1,359
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MESSIAH COLLEGE$24,555
PENN STATE HEALTH HOLY SPIRIT MEDICAL$13,185
LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE$12,277
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL$8,185
FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY$7,726
PENNSYLVANIA CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION$6,367
CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$6,367
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC$6,367
Individual grant recipient$3,212
Individual grant recipient$2,726
MT GRETNA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,367
MUSIC AT GRETNA$1,367
GRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC$1,367
COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,359
THE UNITED METHODIST HOME$1,359
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $679 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $537 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $453 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $332 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $322 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $298 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $210 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $66 → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
KY
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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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$596k · 34 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
3

Total granted

$596k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-14%

Still filing today

32%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MU
    MESSIAH UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +9%
  • LV
    LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +26%
  • TG
    THE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • BO
    BOARD OF CHILD CARE WITMER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • KH
    KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA HEAD START HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $3k

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
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
2
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…

3
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

4
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
5
Holy Redeemer Health System

As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.

Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
9
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
10
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
11
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
12
Gettysburg Hospital

Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pennsylvania Chautauqua and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $62,540 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPENN STATE HEALTH HOLY SPIRIT MEDICAL — $32,403 · OtherPENN STATE HEALTH HOLY SPIRIT MEDICALPRESBYTERIAN HOMES INC — $31,871 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN HOMES INCSALVATION ARMY OF PHILADELPHIA — $21,157 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF PHILADELPHIAGRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC — $18,073 · OtherGRETNA PRODUCTIONS INCHOLY SPIRIT HOSPITAL — $17,164 · OtherHOLY SPIRIT HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient — $14,223 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $14,218 · OtherCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $11,873 · OtherMT GRETNA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $11,873 · OtherTHE UNITED METHODIST HOME — $11,833 · Other+16 more — $70,867 · Other+16 moreMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $123,470 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITYLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $72,179 · EducationLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGETHE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA — $41,157 · HealthTHE GOOD S…KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES — $5,000 · HealthKEYSTONE H…American Heart Association Inc — $3,416 · HealthAmerican H…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $3,350 · HealthAMERICAN L…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,991 · HealthFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY — $23,707 · ReligionMUSIC AT GRETNA INC — $12,873 · Arts & CulturePENNSYLVANIA CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION — $6,367 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,897 · Human Services
Other$318,095Education$195,649Health$54,914Religion$23,707Arts & Culture$19,240Human Services$2,897

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $123,470 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $72,179 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA — $41,157 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY — $23,707 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC — $18,073 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetMUSIC AT GRETNA INC — $12,873 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $3,416 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $3,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,897 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA CHAUTAUQUA — $1,992 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,991 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY
  • Who funds GRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC
  • Who funds MUSIC AT GRETNA INC
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA CHAUTAUQUA
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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 John and Jeanette Witmer Charitable Co Pnc 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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

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    How do I get to John and Jeanette Witmer Charitable Co Pnc?

    Find your warmest path to John and Jeanette Witmer Charitable Co Pnc 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 38 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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