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Lucinda C Gossett Charitable Trust
Its FY2019 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 FY2018–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| BETHESDA MISSION | $75,000 |
| KEYS VINEYARD COMMUNITY CHURCH | $35,000 |
| U S ARMY HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE & ART | $20,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL BALLET | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CANINE RESCUE OF CENTRAL PA | $10,000 |
| JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| CLEVE J FREDERICKSEN LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PITTIES LOVE PEACE INC | $6,000 |
| PA BREAST CANCER COALITION | $6,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
The pennsylvania medical society is the voice of pennsylvania's physicians and the patients they serve. we advance quality patient care and the ethical practice of medicine. we promote physician leadership, education, professional…
The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) protects animals from cruelty and abuse, rescues and rehabilitates neglected, abandoned and unwanted animals, and promotes animal welfare throughout Pennsylvania.…
The pennsylvania recreation and park society empowers recreation and park professionals and citizen advocates to enhance life-enriching services for all pennsylvanians.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
Provide the public with current informational and recreational resources, services, and programming by maintaining a free, public non-sectarian library for all individuals in the punxsutawney service area.
The purpose of the new castle public library is to provide free public library service to all residents of its designated service area and as further set forth in its articles of incorporation pursuant to the pennsylvania nonprofit…
Public lending library
Public lending library
Preventing animal cruelty
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Harrisburg Area Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Hope Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL BALLET ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CANINE RESCUE OF CENTRAL PA INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA BREAST CANCER COALITION ↗
- Who funds PITTIES LOVE PEACE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRISBURG AREA INC ↗
- Who funds MECHANICSBURG MUSEUM 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: United Way of the Capital Region · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Community Aid Inc · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 Lucinda C Gossett Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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