How much does John Crain Kunkel Foundation give?

John Crain Kunkel Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $650,088 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 46 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does John Crain Kunkel Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (12%).

Who are John Crain Kunkel Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of the Capital Region ($234k), Dauphin County Library System ($150k), Historic Harrisburg Assoc ($150k).

Does John Crain Kunkel Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John Crain Kunkel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as John Crain Kunkel Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, United Way of the Capital Region, The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation.

Where is John Crain Kunkel Foundation based?

John Crain Kunkel Foundation is based in PA.

Foundation Dossiers

Pennsylvania · Private foundation

John Crain Kunkel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$650k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 39
Grants FY2025: 46
Organizations funded FY2024: 39%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $90,000
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 46; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $13M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 39% of the organizations John Crain Kunkel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	39	$650k	31%
FY2024	46	$668k	39%
FY2023	41	$691k	46%
FY2022	22	$441k	41%
FY2021	35	$601k	69%
FY2020	17	$521k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$885kArts & Culture$594kHealth$439kHuman Services$431kHousing & Shelter$262kPhilanthropy$241kYouth Development$224kFood & Nutrition$201kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United Way of the Capital Region	$233,500	6	0%
Dauphin County Library System	$150,000	2	1%
Historic Harrisburg Assoc	$150,000	2	26%
The Nativity School of Harrisburg	$150,000	6	4%
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts	$145,000	3	3%
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center	$90,000	1	0%
Homeland Center	$80,000	1	0%
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology	$80,000	2	0%
Harrisburg Area Community College Foundation	$69,950	5	1%
Veterans Outreach of Pennsylvania	$66,300	3	15%

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All grantees of John Crain Kunkel Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
United Way of the Capital Region	$233,500	6	0%
Dauphin County Library System	$150,000	2	1%
Historic Harrisburg Assoc	$150,000	2	26%
The Nativity School of Harrisburg	$150,000	6	4%
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts	$145,000	3	3%
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center	$90,000	1	0%
Homeland Center	$80,000	1	0%
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology	$80,000	2	0%
Harrisburg Area Community College Foundation	$69,950	5	1%
Veterans Outreach of Pennsylvania	$66,300	3	15%
Stop the Violence Ministry	$62,000	6	8%
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank	$60,000	6	0%
Friends of the West Shore Theatre Inc	$60,000	4	3%
Shalom House	$60,000	1	5%
St Stephen's Episcopal School	$59,938	2	3%
Sadler Health Center Corporation	$58,000	1	1%
National Civil War Museum	$55,000	4	2%
The Joshua Group	$52,500	5	1%
Operation Warm Inc	$52,500	5	0%
Planned Parenthood Keystone	$45,000	2	0%
YWCA Greater Harrisburg	$42,000	2	0%
Brethren Housing Association	$40,000	4	1%
The Cracked Pot Coffee Shop	$39,000	3	4%
Millersburg Area Senior Center Advisory Board	$38,250	2	14%
Joseph T Simpson Public Library	$38,024	1	2%
Project Share of Carlisle	$36,976	3	0%
Carlisle Cares	$33,830	3	1%
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc	$31,500	4	0%
Junior Achievement of South Central Pa	$30,000	2	1%
Pennon Organization	$30,000	2	0%
Greenlight Operation	$30,000	2	2%
The Janus School	$30,000	2	0%
Beacon Clinic for Health and Hope	$29,000	2	2%
Cleve J Fredricksen Library Association	$27,500	4	1%
Valley Youth House Committee Inc	$27,000	3	0%
Girls on the Run Mid State Pa	$25,000	3	3%
Keystone Human Services	$25,000	1	0%
Historical Society Dauphin County	$25,000	3	5%
Phi	$25,000	1	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Pa	$25,000	1	1%
Capital Area School for the Arts Charter School	$25,000	1	1%
Bethesda Mission of Harrisburg Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Bridge of Hope Harrisburg Area	$25,000	3	4%
Community Check Up Center of S	$25,000	1	n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region	$25,000	2	1%
Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church Inc	$23,700	1	0%
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania	$20,000	3	0%
Camp Hebron Inc	$20,000	3	0%
Upmc Pinnacle Foundation	$20,000	1	n/a
Recycle Bicycle Harrisburg Inc	$20,000	1	19%
Skip Program	$20,000	2	3%
Leaf Project Inc	$20,000	2	2%
New Hope Ministries Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Hoffman Homes Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Capital Area Greenbelt Assoc Inc	$20,000	1	8%
Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci	$18,000	2	4%
Open Stage of Harrisburg	$16,000	2	3%
Harrisburg Green Alliance	$16,000	1	38%
The Boys and Girls Club of Chambersburg and Shippensburg Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Scholars Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Harrisburg Academy	$15,000	2	0%
Gamut Theatre Group	$15,000	3	1%
Operation Medical	$15,000	1	19%
The Caring Cupboard Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc	$12,500	1	0%
Family Promise of Harrisburg Capital Region	$12,500	2	2%
Susquehanna Art Museum	$12,000	1	2%
Wildheart	$10,000	1	2%
Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties	$10,000	1	1%
Contact Helpline	$10,000	1	1%
Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair	$10,000	2	8%
Tribe on a Quest Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Harrisburg Area YMCA	$8,000	1	0%
Employment Skills Center	$6,000	1	1%
Lebanon Valley Volunteers in Medicine Clinic	$5,000	1	1%
Christian Churches United of the Tri-County Area	$5,000	1	0%
Pennsylvania State University	$5,000	1	n/a
Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pa	$5,000	1	0%
Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art	$5,000	1	1%
Vickie's Angel Walk Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Messiah University	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($559k), not named here.

John Crain Kunkel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 77.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA124.1× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About John Crain Kunkel Foundation

How much does John Crain Kunkel Foundation give?: John Crain Kunkel Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $650,088 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 46 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does John Crain Kunkel Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (12%).
Who are John Crain Kunkel Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of the Capital Region ($234k), Dauphin County Library System ($150k), Historic Harrisburg Assoc ($150k).
Does John Crain Kunkel Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John Crain Kunkel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John Crain Kunkel Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, United Way of the Capital Region, The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation.
Where is John Crain Kunkel Foundation based?: John Crain Kunkel Foundation is based in PA.