· Private foundation
Lindsey E C for Lindsey Char Fd-Tr
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $9,000 |
| MERCER AREA LIBRARY | $7,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| BETHANY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $4,000 |
| CHILDRENS CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY | $4,000 |
| KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF MERCER | $4,000 |
| SHENANGO PRESBYTERIAN HOME | $4,000 |
| TRAILS END CONSERVANCY | $1,750 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MAMERCER AREA LIBRARY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +62%
- UWUNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +103%
- MCMERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC3× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +241%
Funded once
- BPBETHANY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $4k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.
Provide support, education, and advocacy to families of children with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges.
Meriter is dedicated to improving the health of the people and communities we serve.
At mercersburg academy we embrace the values of hard work, character, and community while learning to balance independence with interdependence and individual humility with collective pride. our students commit to a life of learning, seek…
To help make our communities healthier through a focus on whole person health.
Mercer council envisions a healthy, safe, and responsible community. to create pathways to reduce substance-related challenges through education, support, advocacy, and partnerships throughout our community.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Meriter foundation exists to raise and manage gifts in support of the programs and services that advance the mission of meriter hospital, inc.
The mission of the community action partnership of mercer county is to help people help themselves through leadership in community partnering that provides opportunities to live with decency and dignity.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
To work as an organization of individuals, businesses, and professionals to enhance the economic, civic, and cultural interests of the mcpherson area.
Provide behavioral health and intellectual developmental disabilities services to children and adults in bucks county pa through community based and residential programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Warehouse of Mercer County and the most unlike its peers is Mercer Old Graveyard Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 30 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 MERCER AREA LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCER OLD GRAVEYARD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
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: Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · James Frances McCandless Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Lindsey E C for Lindsey Char Fd-Tr 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.