· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of LAWRENCE L & JULIA Z HOVERTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAF PROJECT INC | $85,000 |
| JOIN HANDS | $60,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $39,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,000 |
| DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD | $25,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH | $20,000 |
| DOWNBEAT FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GREEN LIGHT OPERATIONS | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES | $18,421 |
| PERRY COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE | $15,000 |
| BEACON CLINIC FOR HEALTH AND HOPE | $10,000 |
| SPERANZA ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| NOBODY'S CAT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA HEAD START | $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 (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 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 +62% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- LPLEAF PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +89%
- UPUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +572%
- PCPERRY COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE5× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +142% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- BYBETHESDA YOUTH MISSIONone grant, 2017 · $70k
- MFMILLERSTOWN FIRE COMPANYone grant, 2023 · $69k · revenue -47%
- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +9%
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.
To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.
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…
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…
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…
Provision of charitable healthcare services
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.
To provide high quality, cost effective, primary health care and to coordinate care for patients requiring secondary and tertiary services.
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…
To advance the health of our community by providing inclusive, high quality and compassionate care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historical Society of Perry County and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 84 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 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 MILLERSTOWN AMBULANCE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- 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 THE VISTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · 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
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 Lawrence L & Julia Z Hoverter Charitable 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.
- K9S for Warriors 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.