· Private foundation
John Crain Kunkel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $416k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN STATE HEALTH - HAMPDEN MEDICAL CENTER | $90,000 |
| WHITAKER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTS | $90,000 |
| ART CENTER SCHOOL & GALLERIES | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION | $25,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $24,938 |
| BOARD OF CHILD CARE | $23,700 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| UPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BETHESDA MISSION | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHECK-UP CENTER | $17,000 |
| HARRISBURG GREEN ALLIANCE | $16,000 |
| PROJECT SHARE OF CARLISLE | $15,000 |
| GREENLIGHT OPERATION | $15,000 |
| CARING CUPBOARD | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 12 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION6× · 2020–2025 · $234k · revenue +12%
- HHHistoric Harrisburg Assoc2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +39% · 26% of their budget
- DCDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM2× · 2020–2021 · $150k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $150k
- HCHOMELAND CENTERone grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue -6%
- SHSHALOM HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -74%
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.
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.
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.
The mission of the harrisburg regional chamber is to be a catalyst for policy change, for job creation and for business growth in cumberland, dauphin, and perry counties that enhances the quality of life in our region.
The mission of penn state health holy spirit medical center is to nurture the healing ministry of the church, supported by education and research. fidelity to the gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we create…
To improve the health of central pennsylvania's residents by delivering high quality, respectful and patient-centered health and related social servies that promote access, treatment, education, and prevention regardless of health,…
The jewish home of greater harrisburg provides a continuum of primarily senior living services to the central pennsylvania community. our mission, based on jewish values, is to enhance the quality of life of those we serve and their…
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
The housing alliance of pennsyvlania ("hap") has played a leading role in many significant housing policy advances. hap is an influential community of housing consumers, advocates, producers, providers, policy makers and government…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoffman Homes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Warm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
79 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. 79 of the 100 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 UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds Historic Harrisburg Assoc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds WHITAKER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds HOMELAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Friends of the West Shore Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds SHALOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SADLER HEALTH CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA GROUP ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CRACKED POT COFFEE SHOP ↗
- Who funds MILLERSBURG AREA SENIOR CENTER ADVISORY BOARD ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SHARE OF CARLISLE ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE CARES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JANUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT OPERATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA ↗
- Who funds PENNON ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds BEACON CLINIC FOR HEALTH AND HOPE ↗
- Who funds CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Hall Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Community Aid Inc · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
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 Crain Kunkel 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.
- Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church Inc — 100% of income from government
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.