Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Members 1st Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $186k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 90%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 29
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $178k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 90% of the organizations Members 1st Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $186k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $115k | 90% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $96k | 96% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $135k | 96% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peyton Walker Foundation | $12,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Bloom for Women Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Susan P Byrnes Health Education Center Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Clare House Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Lhm Social Services Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Thrive Ministry Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Harrisburg Fair Housing Council Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Brethren Housing Association | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Members 1st Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Community Aid Inc · United Way of the Capital Region · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
How this is measured
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About Members 1st Charitable Foundation
- How much does Members 1st Charitable Foundation give?
- Members 1st Charitable Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $185,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 29 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Members 1st Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Housing & Shelter (18%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Members 1st Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Peyton Walker Foundation ($13k), Bloom for Women Inc ($10k), Susan P Byrnes Health Education Center Inc ($10k).
- Does Members 1st Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Members 1st Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Members 1st Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation, Ppl Foundation.
- Where is Members 1st Charitable Foundation based?
- Members 1st Charitable Foundation is based in PA.
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