· Private foundation
Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k79 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTH MINISTRIES OF CHRIST | $22,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES | $21,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION (MA | $15,000 |
| UPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES | $13,333 |
| GREENLIGHT OPERATION | $13,000 |
| JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $12,000 |
| VETERANS OUTREACH OF PA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| WILDHEART MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| CAMP HEBRON | $8,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL PA | $7,000 |
| PA DREAM HOUSE | $6,500 |
| SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| ELIM BIBLE INSTITUTE & COLLEGE | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- NHNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +105%
- JTJOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +20%
- CHCAMP HEBRON INC5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +12%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
- CSCAITLIN'S SMILES INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.
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…
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
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…
See schedule othe harrisburg university of science and technology offers innovative academic and research programs in science and technology that respond to local and global needs. the institution fosters a diverse community of learners,…
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…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wednesday Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 126 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 NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CAMP HEBRON INC ↗
- Who funds SONSHINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PINNACLE HEALTH AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMELAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds PA Dream House Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL KEYSTONE AREA ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILDHEART ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT OPERATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE THEATRE HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds THE CAPITAL REGION LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WORLD SURGICAL FOUNDATION 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 · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Hall Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · Franklin H and Ruth L Wells Foundation
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 Joseph T and Helen M Simpson 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.
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% 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.