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McCleary Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SERVICES FOR THE HOMEBOUND | $10,000 |
| SHALOM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| MENNO HAVEN INC | $10,000 |
| SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MARANATHA | $7,500 |
| HOUSE OF GRACE | $7,500 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| OPEN DOOR CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THOMASTON BAPIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CUMBERLAND VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $4,000 |
| SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MIA SUTPHIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| CUMBERLAND VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,000 |
| SALEM CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
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, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
89 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MIMENNO-HAVEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +27%
- SUSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +99%
- SCSHALOM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +254%
Funded once
- FCFRANKLIN CO HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $9k
- SFSERVICES FOR THE HOMEBOUND OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -30%
- FDFOUR DIAMONDS AT PS HLTH CHILDREN'Sone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The mission of the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.
Provide emergency medical services.
Civil justice for those in need, their homes secured, families protected, and finances fortified.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
The foundation of the pennsylvania medical society charitable trust is dedicated to advancing the culture of philanthropy and supporting excellence across programs and services provided by the foundation of the pennsylvania medical society.
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 central pennsylvania christian institue is a non-profit, non-denominational, evangelical ministry specializing in the clear communication of biblical christianity to the present generation. we will use both traditional methods and…
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
The central pennsylvania blood bank (cpbb) is a community based blood program committed to providing a quality blood supply, responsive to community needs, in a cost effective manner. cpbb works to promote, secure, and coordinate 100% of…
The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. (fhccp) is to build and support community-based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spiritrust Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Fka Lutheran Home Care & Hospice Inc and the most unlike its peers is The House of Grace. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 108 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 MENNO-HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHALOM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY- KITTOCHTINNY ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds OCCUPATIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBERSBURG PA ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MARION VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SPIRITRUST LUTHERAN HOME CARE & HOSPICE FKA LUTHERAN HOME CARE & HOSPICE INC ↗
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 · The Paul E & Shirley U Lehman Family Foundation · The William and Diane Nitterhouse Foundation · Robert & Esther Grove Family Foundation · Orrstown Bank Foundation Inc 011552 · Stewart Alexander Md Fdn Tr Udeed · United Way of Franklin County · The Manitowoc Company Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 McCleary Family 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.
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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