· Private foundation
Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PENN STATE HARRISBURG NURSING PROG | $20,000 |
| GREENLIGHT OPERATION | $20,000 |
| LOVE INC | $20,000 |
| JOSHUA GROUP | $20,000 |
| DAUPHIN COUNTY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS | $20,000 |
| GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $18,000 |
| NORTH STAR INITIATIVE | $15,400 |
| A GIFT OF SMILES | $15,000 |
| DIAKON YOUTH SERVICES | $15,000 |
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL | $10,000 |
| HELPING THE HARRISBURG FAMILY INC | $10,000 |
| LOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG | $10,000 |
| THE JANUS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $279k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 10 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- DCDIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES6× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +14%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +59%
- TJTHE JOSHUA GROUP7× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- NCNEW CUMBERLAND YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCone grant, 2017 · $35k
- MMMID-PENN MOTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +42%
- BUBAUGHMAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
The mission of pa treatment & healing is to guide people on a path to change through quality counseling, treatment and education. this is accomplished by providing a comprehensive individual and family centered, values oriented treatment…
Keystone service systems, inc. (kss) provides residential and related support services for families and people who experience intellectual disability, mental illness, or other behavioral challenges throughout central pennsylvania and the…
The organization offers food, clothing and shelter to the unhomed of berks county. services offered include education and work development, providing spiritual transformation through discipleship, church attendence, bibel study and prayer…
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
The mission of pennsylvania women work is to empower women to advance in their careers and achieve self-sufficiency through life-changing career development programs and mentorship.
Our vision is a community that embraces specialized care at the end of life with the same importance that is given at the beginning of life. our guiding principles are service - to make a difference in the lives of our patients/families,…
Catholic harvest food pantry welcomes all individuals and families who are in need of nourishing and healthy food and other essential items. we serve york county residents, with an emphasis on york city, central york and york suburban…
We partner with people with disabilities, people with other barriers, young adults, children, and families to pursue their hopes and dreams through strengthening workplace abilities, building life skills, and developing meaningful…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is AMIRACLE4SURE Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 22 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 114 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 DIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA GROUP ↗
- Who funds THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW CUMBERLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
- Who funds SILENCE OF MARY HOME ↗
- Who funds VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CUMBERLAND RIVER RESCUE NO 1 ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL KEYSTONE AREA ↗
- Who funds GAUDENZIA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT OPERATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE HARRISBURG AREA ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR COMMUNITY CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds MID-PENN MOTION ↗
- Who funds A GIFT OF SMILES ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of the West Shore Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAF PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds MS FITEFFECT ↗
- Who funds LOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG ↗
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 · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Community Aid Inc · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Members 1st Charitable Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Link 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 Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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