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Members 1st Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Health$142kHousing & Shelter$104kHuman Services$82kFood & Nutrition$65kYouth Development$57kEducation$43kArts & Culture$26kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $166k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$178k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LHM HOSPICE & SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION$10,000
THRIVE MINISTRY INC$10,000
IM ABLE FOUNDATION$5,000
THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN$5,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERIVCES OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIES$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN$5,000
HALIFAX COMMUNITIES THAT CARE$5,000
NEURODIVERSE NETWORK INC$5,000
SUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC$5,000
18 SOUTH YOUTH MINISTRIES INC$5,000
NEW BETHANY INC$5,000
KAREEMS MISSION$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY$5,000
CAITLIN'S SMILES$5,000
18TH WONDER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 8%LHM HOSPICE & SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%OLIVIA'S HOUSE A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 9%THE CARING CUPBOARD INC: $5k → 11%HOFFMAN HOMES INC: $5k → 9%18 SOUTH YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 9%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $5k → 11%MARANATHA-CARLISLE: $5k → 8%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERIVCES OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIES: $5k → 8%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $5k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $4k → 9%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5k → 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIES: $5k → 8%CARLISLE FAMILY YMCA: $4k → 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%THRIVE MINISTRY INC: $10k → 9%SHANTHI PROJECT: $3k → 11%CAITLIN'S SMILES: $5k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF HARRISBURG CAPITAL REGION: $5k → 8%CAITLIN'S SMILES: $5k → 12%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%CHASING THE RAINBOWS: $3k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $5k → 12%A NEW TOMORROW: $4k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$126k · 16 repeat orgs$455k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
70

Total granted

$126k
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+6%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • PW
    PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +89%
  • CS
    CAITLIN'S SMILES INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • LA
    LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +45%
  • MF
    MIDWEST FOOD BANK PENNSYLVANIA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • CH
    CLARE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Center for Community Resources Inc

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…

Health
2
Community Counseling Center of Mercer County

To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

Health
3
Pennsylvania Home of the Sparrow

To partner with women facing homelessness to secure housing, achieve long- term stability, and chart new paths for their futures.

Food & Nutrition
4
United Cerebral Palsy of Central Pennsylvania

Ucp of central pennsylvania empowers people of diverse abilities to live meaningful life through innovative support and services.

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5
Center for Community Action

The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…

Housing & Shelter
6
Human Services Center

Human services center is a comprehensive community behavioral healthcare provider that provides mental health and development disability services to lawrence county residents.

Human Services
7
Chartiers Center

Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.

Human Services
8
Skills of Central Pennsylvania Inc

Skills of central pennsylvania, inc., a private, non-profit organization, is committed to creating opportunities and providing support for people who need specialized services to enhance all aspects of their lives. the vision for skills of…

Human Services
9
Centre County Youth Service Bureau

The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…

Human Services
10
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services
11
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
12
Carelink Community Support Services Pa

The purpose is to provide residential, social and vocational programs in southeastern pennsylvania for rehabilitation of adults with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoffman Homes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whitehall Township Public Library. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Empowerment Organ…Senior Affordable HousingYouth Sports LeaguesResidential Treatment & Rec…Independent Schools and Cha…Regional History MuseumsCommunity Development Partn…Regional Health SystemsPublic Library SystemsYork County Community Found…Pediatric Cancer SupportAnimal Rescue and Shelter S…Community Theater & Perform…Fraternal Service Organizat…School District Education F…Food Pantries and Basic Nee…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr14%13%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%7%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr16%31%35–55yr15%14%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/103
the rest of the field
8%
1,069/12,741

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.

04the grantee network

95 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. 95 of the 115 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/95
Grantees still filing
45/95
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,000 · OtherMIDWEST FOOD BANK PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 · OtherCLARE HOUSE INC — $10,000 · OtherPENN STATE HEALTH ST JOSEPH — $10,000 · OtherBRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherNEW BETHANY INC — $8,500 · OtherPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION — $12,500 · OtherBLOOM FOR WOMEN INC — $10,000 · Other+40 more — $155,300 · Other+40 moreLHM SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesLHM SOCIAL SERVICES FOU…THRIVE MINISTRY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE MINISTRY INCCAITLIN'S SMILES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCAITLIN'S SMILES INCDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES — $10,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVI…POWER PACKS PROJECT — $8,500 · Human ServicesPOWER PACKS PROJECTNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INCSAFE BERKS — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARING CUPBOARD INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesMARANATHA CARLISLE — $5,000 · Human Services18 SOUTH YOUTH MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN — $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HARRISBURG CAPITAL REGION — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION — $5,000 · Human ServicesOLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 · Human ServicesHOFFMAN HOMES INC — $5,000 · Human Services+5 more — $15,500 · Human Services+5 moreSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthSUSAN P BYRN…SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT — $6,000 · HealthSCHREIBER CE…KAREEMS MISSION KAREEMS MISSION — $5,000 · HealthKAREEMS MISS…CONTACT HELPLINE — $5,000 · HealthCONTACT HELP…PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY — $5,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC CA…BREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES OF BERKS COUNTY — $5,000 · HealthBREAST CANCE…UNION COMMUNITY CARE — $5,000 · HealthUNION COMMUN…THE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC — $5,000 · HealthTHE ARC OF Y…READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthREADING HOSP…LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC — $3,000 · HealthCOMPASS MARK — $2,500 · HealthKIDSPEACE CORPORATION — $2,500 · HealthVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC — $2,500 · HealthBUILDING BRIDGES FOR BRIANNA — $2,500 · HealthEMPLOYMENT SKILLS CENTER — $7,500 · EducationEMPLOYMEN…DREAM PARTNERSHIP — $5,000 · EducationDREAM PAR…ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationELIZABETH…Perry County Literacy Council — $5,000 · EducationPerry Cou…Halifax Communities That Care — $5,000 · EducationHalifax C…THE JOSHUA GROUP — $5,000 · EducationTHE JOSHU…THE VISTA SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationTHE VISTA…CHALKBOARD FINANCIAL — $3,000 · EducationCHALKBOAR…GOVERNOR MIFFLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EducationSPARKS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOLS — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $700 · EducationHARRISBURG FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHARRISBUR…CARLISLE CARES — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterCARLISLE …HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC — $6,500 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING D…OPPORTUNITY HOUSE — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterOPPORTUNI…SAFE HARBOUR INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HARB…TRI-COUNTY HDC LTD — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTRI-COUNT…YORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterYORK HABI…Adams Rescue Mission Inc — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterOLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLYKENS VALLEY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionYORK FRESH FOOD FARMS — $5,000 · Food & NutritionCOCOA PACKS INC — $4,000 · Food & NutritionPARKLAND CARES FOOD PANTRY — $3,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$236,300Human Services$122,000Health$64,000Education$48,700Housing & Shelter$48,500Youth Development$34,000Food & Nutrition$27,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLARE HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLHM SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOM FOR WOMEN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHARRISBURG FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAITLIN'S SMILES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW BETHANY INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER PACKS PROJECT — $8,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMPLOYMENT SKILLS CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCARLISLE CARES — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPEER OF LEBANON COUNTY — $6,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE BERKS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARING CUPBOARD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAM PARTNERSHIP — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCAMP HEBRON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC OF ALLENTOWN PA — $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDHEART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPerry County Literacy Council — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLATINO HISPANIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS WORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONTACT HELPLINE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYORK FRESH FOOD FARMS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget18 SOUTH YOUTH MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES OF BERKS COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNION COMMUNITY CARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGamut Theatre Group — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JOSHUA GROUP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOUR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HDC LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Foundation for En…The Donald B and Doro…Ppl FoundationCommunity Aid IncUnited Way of the Cap…John Crain Kunkel Fou…Lancaster County Comm…Clark Associates Char…Airie Knipel Harry V …Schwab-Silfen Foundat…United Way of the Gre…Central Pennsylvania …
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA61.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Members 1st Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Members 1st Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Members 1st Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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