· Private foundation
McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PA FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $2,500 |
| YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $2,500 |
| CUMBERLAND COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $2,500 |
| GREEN FREE LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| LYCOMING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $2,500 |
| HARRISBURG BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $2,000 |
| York Symphony Orchestra | $1,500 |
| YMCA YOUTH & GOVERNMENT | $1,500 |
| WEST SHORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTER | $1,500 |
| YMCA - IN TIOGA COUNTY | $1,500 |
| Williamsport Symphony Orchestra | $1,500 |
| HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOC | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -77% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +59%
- DCDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +32%
- ISINTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- GFGREEN FREE LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -77%
- HFHabitat for Humanityone grant, 2019 · $1k
- TDThe Deane Centerone grant, 2019 · $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.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
The library exists to provide free public library services for the needs of the residents of jersey shore and surrounding areas.
The mission of the warren library association is to provide all citizens in its service area access to library materials and information services which address the needs and expand the aspirations of the community for formal and lifelong…
Operation of a community library in honey brook, pennsylvania.
Public lending library
Public lending library
Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania
Public lending library
Public lending library
The purpose is to provide the community with public library services.
Public lending library
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dauphin County Library System and the most unlike its peers is Lycoming County Historical Society. 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 118 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 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM BOARD ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARKET SQUARE CONCERTS ↗
- Who funds GREEN FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds POTTER-TIOGA COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
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 · Hall Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · United Way of the Capital Region · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock 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 McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta 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.