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John & Jeanette Witmer Charitable Trust #2 at a glance

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John & Jeanette Witmer Charitable Trust #2

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$97kHuman Services$30kEducation$28kReligion$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$925
Median grant
8
States reached
$712k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$1,735
THE UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR$1,735
THE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION$1,735
NEW CUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,735
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,735
CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY$1,735
Individual grant recipient$1,735
Individual grant recipient$1,735
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOC$925
MESSIAH VILLAGE DAY CARE CTR$925
BETHESDA MISSION$925
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$810
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$810
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY$810
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$810
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR: $5k → 8%NEW CUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 9%THE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%WEST SHORE YMCA: $5k → 12%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $5k → 9%THE SALVATION ARMY: $4k → 14%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $1k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS NAT HEADQUARTERS: $4k → 14%ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOC: $4k → 14%AMERICAN DIABETES ASSN: $3k → 7%THE UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR: $3k → 8%NEW CUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 9%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $4k → 11%WEST SHORE YMCA: $3k → 12%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $3k → 9%THE SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS NAT HEADQUARTERS: $1k → 14%ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOC: $2k → 14%THE UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR: $2k → 8%NEW CUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2k → 9%THE EPILEPSY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 11%WEST SHORE YMCA: $2k → 12%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $2k → 9%THE UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR: $2k → 8%NEW CUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2k → 9%THE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 11%WEST SHORE YMCA: $2k → 12%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $2k → 9%THE UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR: $1k → 8%NEW CUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1k → 9%THE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 11%WEST SHORE YMCA: $1k → 12%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $1k → 9%CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY: $5k → 8%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1k → 12%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $4k → 8%WITF PUBLIC TELEVISION: $5k → 12%CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY: $3k → 8%WITF PUBLIC TELEVISION: $3k → 12%CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY: $2k → 8%WITF PUBLIC TELEVISION: $2k → 12%CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY: $2k → 8%WITF PUBLIC TELEVISION: $2k → 12%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $1k → 8%MESSIAH VILLAGE DAY CARE CTR: $4k → 8%MESSIAH VILLAGE DAY CARE CTR: $2k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
VA
MD
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$196k · 20 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
1

Total granted

$196k
$3k

Still filing today

35%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • American Diabetes Association
    5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +30%
  • CJ
    CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +12%
  • MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EPILEPSY RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $14,104 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $14,104 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE UNITED METHODIST HOME FOR: $14,104 · OtherTHE UNITED METHODIST HOME FORCLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $14,104 · OtherCLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONNEW CUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $14,103 · OtherNEW CUMBERLAND PUBLIC LIBRARYTHE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION: $10,980 · OtherTHE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATIONBETHESDA MISSION: $8,472 · OtherBETHESDA MISSIONMESSIAH VILLAGE DAY CARE CTR: $8,472 · OtherMESSIAH VILLAGE DAY CARE CTRTHE SALVATION ARMY: $7,649 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $7,649 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSYNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $7,649 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF PA: $7,649 · OtherAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF PAAMERICAN RED CROSS NAT HEADQUARTERS: $7,384 · Other+2 more: $5,726 · OtherAmerican Diabetes Association: $14,104 · HealthAmerican Diabetes AssociationBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $14,104 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,472 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION I…ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,649 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INCAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,649 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,046 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
Other$142,149Health$57,024

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $14,104 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $14,104 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $14,104 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,472 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,649 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,649 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,046 over 3y, 0.0% 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 American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John & Jeanette Witmer Charitable Trust #2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Jeanette Witmer Charitable Trust #2. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    1report 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, 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.

    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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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