· Private foundation
Members 1st Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LHM HOSPICE & SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THRIVE MINISTRY INC | $10,000 |
| THE CARING CUPBOARD INC | $5,000 |
| BLOOM FOR WOMEN | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| NEW BETHANY INC | $5,000 |
| 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 |
| CLINIC FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| 18 SOUTH YOUTH MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| LYKENS VALLEY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PWPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +288%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +6%
- CSCAITLIN'S SMILES INC2× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- PSPENN STATE HEALTH ST JOSEPHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CHCLARE HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
To partner with women facing homelessness to secure housing, achieve long- term stability, and chart new paths for their futures.
Ucp of central pennsylvania empowers people of diverse abilities to live meaningful life through innovative support and services.
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…
Human services center is a comprehensive community behavioral healthcare provider that provides mental health and development disability services to lawrence county residents.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
The purpose is to provide residential, social and vocational programs in southeastern pennsylvania for rehabilitation of adults with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities.
How this is measured
96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 115 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOM FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLARE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LHM SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THRIVE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CAITLIN'S SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds POWER PACKS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYMENT SKILLS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE CARES ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds COMPEER OF LEBANON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds IM ABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP HEBRON INC ↗
- Who funds Gamut Theatre Group ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS WORK ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA GROUP ↗
- Who funds YORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LYKENS VALLEY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNION COMMUNITY CARE ↗
- Who funds READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Members 1st Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Members 1st Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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