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McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta at a glance

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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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
76
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$300kArts & Culture$115kYouth Development$51kFood & Nutrition$36kHuman Services$28kHousing & Shelter$14kInternational$14kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL PA FOOD BANK$4,000
YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM$2,500
LYCOMING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM$2,500
GREEN FREE LIBRARY$2,500
CUMBERLAND COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM$2,500
DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM$2,500
HARRISBURG BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$2,000
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTER$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Williamsport Symphony Orchestra$1,500
HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOC$1,500
YMCA YOUTH & GOVERNMENT$1,500
York Symphony Orchestra$1,500
YMCA - IN TIOGA COUNTY$1,500
WEST SHORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $500 → 8%GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $500 → 8%GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $500 → 8%GREENLIGHT OPERATION: $500 → 8%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $1k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $1k → 12%DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $1k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$594k · 99 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -77% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
18

Total granted

$594k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-77%

Still filing today

34%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +59%
  • DC
    DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +32%
  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • GF
    GREEN FREE LIBRARY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -77%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • TD
    The Deane Center
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Adamstown Area Library

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…

Education
2
Jersey Shore Public Library

The library exists to provide free public library services for the needs of the residents of jersey shore and surrounding areas.

—
3
Warren Library Association

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…

—
4
Honey Brook Community Library

Operation of a community library in honey brook, pennsylvania.

Education
5
Taylor Community Library Association

Public lending library

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6
Dalton Community Library

Public lending library

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7
Pike County Public Library Inc

Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania

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8
Carbondale Public Library

Public lending library

—
9
North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

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10
Hawley Library Association Inc

The purpose is to provide the community with public library services.

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11
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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12
New Castle Public 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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dauphin County Library System; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 118 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $22,500 · OtherYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMCUMBERLAND COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $22,500 · OtherCUMBERLAND COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC: $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · Other+88 more: $319,400 · Other+88 moreDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $22,500 · EducationDAUPHIN COUNT…LYCOMING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM BOARD: $22,500 · EducationLYCOMING COUN…CAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL: $9,000 · EducationCAPITAL AREA …POTTER-TIOGA COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $5,000 · EducationPOTTER-TIOGA …BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $3,500 · EducationMANSFIELD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,500 · EducationELKLAND AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $3,500 · EducationGREEN FREE LIBRARY: $2,500 · EducationHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $13,250 · Arts & CultureHARRISBURG S…MARKET SQUARE CONCERTS: $10,800 · Arts & CultureMARKET SQUAR…SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $9,600 · Arts & CultureSUSQUEHANNA …CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $9,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PENN…DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureDEANE CENTER…YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4,500 · Arts & CultureYORK SYMPHON…WILLIAMSPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4,500 · Arts & CultureWILLIAMSPORT…NATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $4,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CIV…TIOGA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTIOGA COUNTY…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $36,000 · Food & NutritionINTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTER: $13,500 · HealthMIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 · HealthVISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 · HealthTHE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsDOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $3,000 · Human ServicesGREENLIGHT OPERATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesCAPITAL AREA GREENBELT ASSOC INC: $3,000 · Environment
Other$396,900Education$72,000Arts & Culture$67,150Food & Nutrition$36,000Health$19,500Recreation & Sports$8,000Human Services$5,000Environment$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLYCOMING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM BOARD: $22,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC: $19,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTER: $13,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $13,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMARKET SQUARE CONCERTS: $10,800 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetGREEN FREE LIBRARY: $10,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $9,600 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG: $9,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCAPITAL AREA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $8,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetDEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPOTTER-TIOGA COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAMSPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLYCOMING COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Harrisburg Assoc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $4,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTIOGA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetMIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCIVIC CLUB OF HARRISBURG: $4,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $3,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMANSFIELD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetELKLAND AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $3,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetKNOXVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL AREA GREENBELT ASSOC INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FORT HUNTER INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGREEN FREE LIBRARY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISION RESOURCES OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT OPERATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWESTFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds LYCOMING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM BOARD ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Hall FoundationMcCormick Family Fdn …United Way of the Cap…Pennsylvania Automoti…Joseph T and Helen M …Alexander and Jane Bo…John Crain Kunkel Fou…Anne & Philip Glatfel…First Community Found…Upmc Pinnacle Hospita…The S Wilson and Grac…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA31.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Ta. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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