· Private foundation
John Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIFFLINBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT TF | $100,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOUSE | $60,000 |
| WELLSPAN EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSP | $50,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $30,000 |
| KREMER CARES | $30,000 |
| MIFFLINBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| MIFFLINBURG HOSE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| TRANSITIONS OF PA | $15,000 |
| LYCOMING COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CAMP KOALA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSThe Salvation Army3× · 2018–2025 · $100k
- MUMifflinburg UM Church2× · 2018–2023 · $80k
- CACHILD ADVOCACY CENTER2× · 2023–2025 · $35k
Funded once
- SUSusquehanna Universityone grant, 2018 · $75k
- LCLycoming Collegeone grant, 2018 · $60k
- SJST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As the preeminent leadership experience for girls in grades k-12, girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Girl scouts of eastern pennsylvania, inc. (gsep) builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Sarccs mission is to prevent sexual violence and promote healing for those impacted.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…
To organize, manage, and supervise southwestern pa commission. to plan, form, promote, and coordinate transportation and economic development of the southwest pa region. to further develop intergovernmental and intermunicipal cooperation.
Lebanon valley college educates students for lifelong success through exceptional undergraduate liberal-arts programs and professional graduate programs delivered in an engaging and supportive academic and co-curricular environment.…
We 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 clinical research.
Girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 75 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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