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Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc at a glance

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Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$444k
Granted FY2026still arriving
35
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$357kHuman Services$317kHealth$314kReligion$265kEducation$248kFood & Nutrition$180kPublic Safety & Disaster$167kHousing & Shelter$156kOther$0
02FY2026 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k11 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $388k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW CUMBERLAND RIVER RESCUE NO 1$30,000
THE PEYTON WALKER FOUND$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
NEW CUMBERLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
VETERANS OUTREACH OF PA INC$20,000
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK$20,000
HUMMELSTOWN FOOD PANTRY$20,000
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$18,000
CENTRE FOR MUSIC MENTAL HEALTH$15,000
SILENCE OF MARY HOME$15,000
CASA-COURT APP SP ADV FOR CHILD$15,000
OPERATION WARM$15,000
PAXTON MINISTRIES$15,000
GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA$15,000
WARRIOR COMMUNITY CONNECT$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $349k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WARRIOR COMMUNITY CONNECT: $15k → 10%OPERATION WARM: $16k → 6%SILENCE OF MARY HOME: $20k → 8%OPERATION WARM: $15k → 10%NEW HOPE ASSISTANCE DOGS: $20k → 14%WARRIOR COMMUNITY CONNECT: $15k → 10%SILENCE OF MARY HOME: $18k → 8%OPERATION WARM: $7k → 10%WARRIOR COMMUNITY CONNECT: $15k → 10%SILENCE OF MARY HOME: $15k → 8%SILENCE OF MARY HOME: $10k → 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $15k → 9%A GIFT OF SMILES: $15k → 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%A GIFT OF SMILES: $10k → 8%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $10k → 9%OFF THE STREETS MIDDLETOWN INC: $10k → 12%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $10k → 9%HOPE STATION: $5k → 8%GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $20k → 8%GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $13k → 8%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $15k → 9%HELPING THE HARRISBURG FAMILY INC: $10k → 8%AMIRACLE4SURE INC: $5k → 12%CAITLIN'S SMILES: $1k → 12%PAXTON MINISTRIES: $15k → 12%PAXTON MINISTRIES: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 48 repeat orgs$866k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
66

Total granted

$2.0M
$760k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+12%

Still filing today

73%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2026 · $150k · revenue +59%
  • DC
    DIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
    6× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +14%
  • TJ
    THE JOSHUA GROUP
    7× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEW CUMBERLAND YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOC
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • MM
    MID-PENN MOTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +42%
  • BU
    BAUGHMAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Keystone Service Systems Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

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…

Health
4
Pa Treatment & Healing

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…

Community Improvement
5
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

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,…

Human Services
6
Lancaster Harm Reduction Project Inc
Health
7
Hope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading

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…

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8
Community Services for Children Inc

Csc prepares young children and their families to succeed in learning and life through innovative, comprehensive, leading edge services.

Education
9
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
10
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
11
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth
Philanthropy
12
Harmarville Outreach Programs and Educational Network

To promote community integration of people with physical disability and chronic health conditions in southwestern pennsylvania through sports and recreation programs and services that support return to healthy, productive lifestyles.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge of Hope Harrisburg Area; 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.
04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 124 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
48/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $135,000 · OtherDIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIESGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $103,000 · OtherGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHNEW CUMBERLAND RIVER RESCUE NO 1: $73,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CAPITAL: $55,000 · OtherNEW CUMBERLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT: $94,112 · OtherNEW CUMBERLAND FIRE DEPARTMENTVETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA: $60,000 · Other+72 more: $1,083,232 · Other+72 moreSILENCE OF MARY HOME: $63,000 · Human ServicesSILENCE OF MARY…WARRIOR COMMUNITY CONNECT INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR COMMUNI…Operation Warm Inc: $37,374 · Human ServicesOperation Warm …GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $32,500 · Human ServicesGREENLIGHT OPER…NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MINIST…PAXTON STREET HOME BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: $30,000 · Human ServicesPAXTON STREET H…BRIDGE OF HOPE HARRISBURG AREA: $30,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF HOPE …A GIFT OF SMILES: $25,000 · Human ServicesA GIFT OF SMILE…NEW HOPE ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesPOWER PACKS PROJECT: $20,000 · Human ServicesNORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $15,400 · Human Services+5 more: $31,000 · Human Services+5 moreTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $110,000 · EducationTHE JOSHUA …THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION: $83,250 · EducationTHADDEUS ST…LOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG: $20,000 · EducationLOGOS ACADE…HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationHARRISBURG …THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG: $15,000 · EducationST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationTHE JANUS SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationROLLER NATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMANHEIM TOWNSHIP BIBLE2SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $150,000 · Food & NutritionMECHANICSBURG AREA MEALS ON WHEELS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC: $46,000 · HealthGAUDENZIA INC: $35,000 · HealthMS FITEFFECT: $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 · HealthKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $11,000 · HealthCHRISTIAN RECOVERY AFTERCARE MINISTRY INC: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $10,500 · HealthGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAF PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEDARDS HOUSE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $78,900 · PhilanthropyDUTCHMEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyBOB CRAIG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,603,344Human Services$379,274Education$298,250Food & Nutrition$160,000Health$157,500Youth Development$125,000Philanthropy$123,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $110,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetNEW CUMBERLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT: $94,112 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION: $83,250 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $78,900 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW CUMBERLAND RIVER RESCUE NO 1: $73,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetSILENCE OF MARY HOME: $63,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetVETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA: $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC: $46,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetWARRIOR COMMUNITY CONNECT INC: $45,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetGOODWILL KEYSTONE AREA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $37,374 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT OPERATION: $32,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAXTON STREET HOME BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE HARRISBURG AREA: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMS FITEFFECT: $30,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetMID-PENN MOTION: $30,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetA GIFT OF SMILES: $25,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetFriends of the West Shore Theatre Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLEAF PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPEACE PROMISE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEW HOPE ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPOWER PACKS PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRAIDER CLUB: $17,500 over 2y, 24% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $16,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEG UP FARM INC: $15,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $15,400 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDUTCHMEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOB CRAIG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetFAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT: $14,238 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JANUS SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMECHANICSBURG AREA MEALS ON WHEELS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWILDHEART: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHarrisburg Area Riverboat Soci: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSHUA GROUP ↗
  • Who funds NEW CUMBERLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
  • Who funds NEW CUMBERLAND RIVER RESCUE NO 1 ↗
  • Who funds SILENCE OF MARY HOME ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR COMMUNITY CONNECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL KEYSTONE AREA ↗
  • Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
  • Who funds GAUDENZIA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT OPERATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PAXTON STREET HOME BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE HARRISBURG AREA ↗
  • Who funds MS FITEFFECT ↗
  • Who funds MID-PENN MOTION ↗
  • Who funds A GIFT OF SMILES ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the West Shore Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEAF PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACE PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA ↗

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 En…United Way of the Cap…John Crain Kunkel Fou…The Donald B and Doro…Schwab-Silfen Foundat…Community Aid IncAlexander and Jane Bo…Joseph T and Helen M …McCormick Family Fdn …Members 1st Charitabl…Anne & Philip Glatfel…Link Foundation
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA73.9× affinity35 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 · 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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