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Lawrence L & Julia Z Hoverter Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Lawrence L & Julia Z Hoverter Charitable 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.

$444k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$868kFood & Nutrition$403kInternational$390kHuman Services$346kArts & Culture$316kYouth Development$244kHealth$189kAnimals$156kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $234k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEAF PROJECT INC$85,000
JOIN HANDS$60,000
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$39,000
Individual grant recipient$27,000
DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD$25,000
DOWNBEAT FOUNDATION$20,000
GREEN LIGHT OPERATIONS$20,000
BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH$20,000
FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES$18,421
PERRY COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CAPITAL AREA HEAD START$10,000
BEACON CLINIC FOR HEALTH AND HOPE$10,000
SPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE$10,000
NOBODY'S CAT FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PRE-BORN: $8k → 16%GREEN LIGHT OPERATIONS: $20k → 8%PRE-BORN: $5k → 16%GREEN LIGHT OPERATIONS: $20k → 8%PRE-BORN: $5k → 16%GREEN LIGHT OPERATIONS: $20k → 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $25k → 8%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $25k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $25k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $25k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $25k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $25k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $25k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $20k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $18k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $15k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $11k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $9k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $8k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $8k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $8k → 12%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $8k → 12%HERSHEY FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $2k → 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 33 repeat orgs$773k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
38

Total granted

$2.8M
$698k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+9%

Still filing today

52%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LP
    LEAF PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +89%
  • UP
    UPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +572%
  • PC
    PERRY COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +142% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • BY
    BETHESDA YOUTH MISSION
    one grant, 2017 · $70k
  • MF
    MILLERSTOWN FIRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2023 · $69k · revenue -47%
  • MU
    MESSIAH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +9%
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
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

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.

Health
2
The Best Little Cat House in Pa
Animals
3
Central Pennsylvania Humane Society

To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.

Animals
4
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center

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…

Health
5
Penn State Health

Penn state health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and equitable care; educates and trains (continued…

Health
6
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center

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…

Health
7
Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System

Provision of charitable healthcare services

Health
8
Holy Redeemer Health System

As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.

Health
9
Punxsutawney Area Hospital Inc

To provide high quality, cost effective, primary health care and to coordinate care for patients requiring secondary and tertiary services.

Health
10
The Milton S Hershey Medical Center

Mshmc's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate, culturally responsive and equitable care, educate and trains healthcare…

Health
11
Sadler Health Center Corporation

To advance the health of our community by providing inclusive, high quality and compassionate care.

Health
12
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historical Society of Perry County; the most unlike its peers is Cocoa Kitties. 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

43 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. 43 of the 84 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
26/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $467,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYJOIN HANDS: $320,000 · OtherJOIN HANDSBETHESDA MISSION: $270,000 · OtherBETHESDA MISSIONIndividual grant recipient: $157,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $122,000 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYBREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH: $80,000 · Other+47 more: $834,907 · Other+47 moreLEAF PROJECT INC: $360,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAF PROJECT I…GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS IN…DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $185,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN DAI…THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $80,090 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATI…GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesGREENLIGHT O…HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $29,110 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF C…NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MIN…Mission Pre-Born Inc: $17,500 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesPerry County Literacy Council: $60,843 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG: $25,000 · EducationTHE VISTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $10,000 · EducationUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthMILLERSTOWN AMBULANCE LEAGUE: $40,000 · HealthMS FITEFFECT: $5,000 · HealthPERRY COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $80,000 · AnimalsTHE NOBODY'S CATS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · AnimalsLEG UP FARM INC: $12,500 · AnimalsSPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsLoving Care Cat Rescue: $5,000 · Animals+3 more: $7,500 · AnimalsHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PERRY COUNTY: $37,750 · Arts & CultureTHE PERRY HISTORIANS: $25,500 · Arts & CultureHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHERSHEY AREA PLAYHOUSE: $17,793 · Arts & CulturePERRY COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS: $11,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,250,907Youth Development$460,000Human Services$398,700Education$170,843Health$145,000Animals$130,000Arts & Culture$127,043

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEAF PROJECT INC: $360,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetDOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $185,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $80,090 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPERRY COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE: $80,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetMILLERSTOWN FIRE COMPANY: $68,850 over 1y, 16% of budgetPerry County Literacy Council: $60,843 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetGREENLIGHT OPERATION: $60,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILLERSTOWN AMBULANCE LEAGUE: $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PERRY COUNTY: $37,750 over 4y, 12% of budgetHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $29,110 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PERRY HISTORIANS: $25,500 over 2y, 31% of budgetHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VISTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LION FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHERSHEY AREA PLAYHOUSE: $17,793 over 2y, 12% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE NOBODY'S CATS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLEG UP FARM INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPERRY COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS: $11,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLoving Care Cat Rescue: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOCOA KITTIES: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHERSHEY FOOD BANK AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 LEAF PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD ↗
  • Who funds UPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds PERRY COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds MILLERSTOWN FIRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Perry County Literacy Council ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT OPERATION ↗
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLERSTOWN AMBULANCE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PERRY COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Join Hands Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE PERRY HISTORIANS ↗
  • Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG ↗
  • Who funds THE VISTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC ↗
  • Who funds BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION ↗

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…McCormick Family Fdn …The S Wilson and Grac…Hall FoundationJohn Crain Kunkel Fou…The Donald B and Doro…Joseph T and Helen M …Anne & Philip Glatfel…Schwab-Silfen Foundat…Alexander and Jane Bo…Kenneth Bankert Found…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA51.3× affinity23 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 · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · Hall Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc

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 Lawrence L & Julia Z Hoverter Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence L & Julia Z Hoverter Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 84 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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