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Link Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$249k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Youth Development$211kEducation$142kHousing & Shelter$137kHuman Services$103kCommunity Improvement$68kPhilanthropy$46kEmployment$36kHealth$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $96k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$180k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HOPE MINISTRIES$15,000
THE VISTA SCHOOL$11,000
JA OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA$10,000
THE JOSHUA GROUP$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY HARRISBURG$10,000
BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER$10,000
BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION$10,000
BRIDGE OF HOPE$10,000
TENFOLD$9,000
UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION$9,000
GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA$9,000
FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE$7,500
DIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY$7,500
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRIDGE OF HOPE: $10k → 6%BRIDGE OF HOPE: $10k → 6%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $15k → 9%BRIDGE OF HOPE: $5k → 6%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $15k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $6k → 6%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $1k → 8%CASA OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC: $6k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $5k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $5k → 9%BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG: $10k → 12%DAUPHIN COUNTY CASA: $5k → 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$558k · 27 repeat orgs$270k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

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

27
27

Total granted

$558k
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+24%

Still filing today

81%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • NH
    NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +42%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +2%
  • GO
    GIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SA
    SPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR EQUALITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +58%
  • YL
    YWCA LANCASTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +71%
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
Community Action Commission

Commmunity 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
2
Casa of Allegheny County

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

Civil Rights
3
Lancaster County Academy

Lancaster county academy's mission is to empower non-traditional learners to achieve academic success, career readiness and personal growth through flexible, student-centered programs that values independence, resilience, and real-world…

Education
4
Shalom Christian Academy Association

Shalom christian academy is an independent christian day school serving students from pre-school through high school with a base curriculum, performing arts, technology, and athletic instruction, extra-curricular activities, and spiritual…

Education
5
Mom's House Inc of Lancaster

Empower single parents and their children to set and attain educational goals through parent support and mentorship, early childhood education and safe affordable childcare.

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6
Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligence Charter School

The mission of the howard gardner multiple intelligence charter school is to provide an approach to education that cultivates the potential of each student through the development of his/her multiple intelligences. by focusing on…

Education
7
Center for Community Action

The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…

Housing & Shelter
8
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
9
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
10
Chartiers Center

Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.

Human Services
11
Pathways Pa Inc

To provide residential and community-based services and advocacy for women, children, and families, providing job training and employment assistance, as well as outreach and residential programs in order to help its clients achieve…

Human Services
12
Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania

The housing alliance of pennsyvlania ("hap") has played a leading role in many significant housing policy advances. hap is an influential community of housing consumers, advocates, producers, providers, policy makers and government…

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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 Sacramento Community Fire Company. 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

51 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. 51 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
41/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · OtherBRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATIONJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH: $25,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON: $22,500 · OtherHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATONTENFOLD: $17,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY HARRISBURG: $15,000 · OtherSPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR EQUALITY INC: $25,000 · OtherSPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR EQUAL…PEACE PROMISE: $11,000 · Other+33 more: $173,000 · Other+33 moreGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $39,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS IN THE H…GIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER: $37,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF …GIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN MID…FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR FREE …KEYSTONE SPORTS & ENRICHMENT GROUP: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $32,000 · EducationTHE JOSHUA GROUPLOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG: $25,000 · EducationLOGOS ACADEMY HA…CAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL: $22,000 · EducationCAPITAL AREA SCH…THE VISTA SCHOOL: $14,000 · EducationTHE VISTA SCHOOLTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG: $10,000 · EducationTHE NATIVITY SCH…LOGOS ACADEMY: $8,500 · EducationLOGOS ACADEMYYORK COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $6,000 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · EducationNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MINIS…BRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF HOPE…AARON'S ACRES: $10,000 · Human ServicesAARON'S ACRESBETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBETHESDA MISSI…GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $6,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN…CASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $6,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF LANCAS…BRIDGE OF HOPE HARRISBURG AREA: $5,000 · Human ServicesDAUPHIN COUNTY CASA: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $38,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES: $25,000 · EmploymentTHE CRACKED POT COFFEE SHOP: $10,000 · EmploymentTEC CENTRO WORKFORCE NETWORK: $5,000 · EmploymentSCHOLARS INC: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterAFFORDABLE HOUSING ASSOCIATES OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHARRISBURG FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$328,500Youth Development$152,000Education$120,500Human Services$108,000Philanthropy$48,000Employment$40,000Housing & Shelter$31,000

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 budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $39,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER: $37,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA: $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $32,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR EQUALITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG: $25,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL: $22,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTENFOLD: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VISTA SCHOOL: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE PROMISE: $11,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSCHOLARS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYWCA LANCASTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAARON'S ACRES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHARRISBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE THEATRE HARRISBURG: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CRACKED POT COFFEE SHOP: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOGOS ACADEMY: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYORK COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEYSTONE SPORTS & ENRICHMENT GROUP: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOUSING ASSOCIATES OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTEC CENTRO WORKFORCE NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHTER FINANCIAL FUTURES: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE HARRISBURG AREA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRISBURG FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWILDHEART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVISTA ADULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY CASA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHARRISBURG AREA LEARNING ACADEMY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPUSH THE ROCK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRADIANT HOPE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO COMMUNITY FIRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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…John Crain Kunkel Fou…High FoundationLancaster County Comm…McCormick Family Fdn …United Way of the Cap…Joseph T and Helen M …Kenneth Bankert Found…The Steinman Foundati…The Donald B and Doro…Ppl FoundationAlexander and Jane Bo…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA49.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · High Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · United Way of the Capital Region · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · The Steinman Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta 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 Link Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Link Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    18report 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 Link Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Link Foundation 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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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