How much did LINK FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$119kYouth Development$117kHuman Services$109kEmployment$40kPhilanthropy$38kHousing & Shelter$31kInternational$30kHealth$20kReligion$11kOther$314k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

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2022

hope

2023

vistahopelogosministries

2024

churchcasabridge hopelogospromise

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k31 grants · $153k
$10k–50k9 grants · $96k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$180k

Total assets

Largest grants

NEW HOPE MINISTRIES$15,000
THE VISTA SCHOOL$11,000
THE SALVATION ARMY HARRISBURG$10,000
BRIDGE OF HOPE$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER$10,000
BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION$10,000
JA OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA$10,000
THE JOSHUA GROUP$10,000
BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA$9,000
UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION$9,000
TENFOLD$9,000
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON$7,500
LIGHT HOUSE REHABILITATION CENTER$7,500
DIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY$7,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 70% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$548k · 27 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$548k

$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

+81%

Still filing today

85%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthEmploymentOther

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

BH
BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +83%
NH
NEW HOPE MINISTRIES
3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +88%
UW
UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION
4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +0%

Funded once

SA
SPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2022 · $25k
SA
SALVATION ARMY OF HARRISBURG
one grant, 2021 · $10k
CF
COMMUNITY FIRST FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +488%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Community Action Commission

Community action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services

Cornerstone Christian Academy

To educate children including those from at-risk neighborhoods, in an environment that provides the highest standards for academic achievement and spiritual development

Education

Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania

See page 2, part iii, line 1 for a description of the organization's mission.

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Mastery Charter High School

Students learn the skills needed for post secondary success and are able to pursue their dreams.

Education

Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

The mission of hospice of central pennsylvania is to provide the highest quality of emotional, physical, and spiritual support with compassion and respect.

Human Services

Grove City Christian Academy

To educate children in a christian setting.

Education

Chartiers Center

See schedule ochartiers center (chartiers) is committed to providing compassionate support to those in need who face behavioral health, co-occurring disorders, or intellectual and developmental disability challenges as they transform their…

Human Services

Charter School of New Castle

A delaware charter school with a mission that acknowledges the learning differences of each individual child and nurtures the uniqueness of each family structure.

Education

Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. strives to build a stronger workforce through career, skills training, employment services for career seekers, business services for employers, and labor market insights for smart workforce solutions and innovation.

Employment

Casa of Allegheny County

To recruit and train community members to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights

Arch Street Preschool

To provide an open christian learning community by celebrating diversity, discovery and play.

Education

Eden Christian Academy

Eden christian academy is committed to providing an exceptional educational experience by engaging the mind and heart of each student to think and act with christ-like character.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of South Central Pa and the most unlike its peers is United Disabilities Services. 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 25 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 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/52

the rest of the field

618/8,994

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.

05the grantee network

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/51

Grantees still filing

48/51

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$374,000Education$119,000Youth Development$117,000Human Services$109,000Employment$40,000Philanthropy$38,000Housing & Shelter$31,000

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.

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.

The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA48.2× affinity21 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 · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Members 1st Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · The Steinman Foundation · Community Aid Inc · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family

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 organisation LINK 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HARRISBURG FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 231946920 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HARRISBURG FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Link Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Link Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LINK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Link Foundation?

More from the funding graph

LINK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Link Foundation?

More from the funding graph