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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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
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 (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.

area typical 8%OLIVIA'S HOUSE A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 9%LHM HOSPICE & SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $5k → 11%THE CARING CUPBOARD INC: $5k → 11%HOFFMAN HOMES INC: $5k → 9%18 SOUTH YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERIVCES OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIES: $5k → 8%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES 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%MARANATHA-CARLISLE: $5k → 8%CARLISLE FAMILY YMCA: $4k → 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%THRIVE MINISTRY INC: $10k → 9%SHANTHI PROJECT: $3k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF HARRISBURG CAPITAL REGION: $5k → 8%CAITLIN'S SMILES: $5k → 12%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
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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • PW
    PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +288%
  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • CS
    CAITLIN'S SMILES INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENN STATE HEALTH ST JOSEPH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • CH
    CLARE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%
  • MF
    MIDWEST FOOD BANK PENNSYLVANIA
    one 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.

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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoffman Homes Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
45/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENN STATE HEALTH ST JOSEPH: $10,000 · OtherCLARE HOUSE INC: $10,000 · OtherMIDWEST FOOD BANK PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · OtherBRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $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…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVI…THRIVE MINISTRY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE MINISTRY INCCAITLIN'S SMILES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAITLIN'S SMILES INCPOWER PACKS PROJECT: $8,500 · Human ServicesPOWER PACKS PROJECTNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INCSAFE BERKS: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $5,000 · Human Services18 SOUTH YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HARRISBURG CAPITAL REGION: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOFFMAN HOMES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $5,000 · Human ServicesOLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human ServicesMARANATHA CARLISLE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARING CUPBOARD 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…UNION COMMUNITY CARE: $5,000 · HealthUNION COMMUN…READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthREADING HOSP…THE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE ARC OF Y…CONTACT HELPLINE: $5,000 · HealthCONTACT HELP…BREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES OF BERKS COUNTY: $5,000 · HealthBREAST CANCE…PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $5,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC CA…KAREEMS MISSION KAREEMS MISSION: $5,000 · HealthKAREEMS MISS…LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC: $3,000 · HealthCOMPASS MARK: $2,500 · HealthVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC: $2,500 · HealthBUILDING BRIDGES FOR BRIANNA: $2,500 · HealthKIDSPEACE CORPORATION: $2,500 · HealthEMPLOYMENT SKILLS CENTER: $7,500 · EducationEMPLOYMEN…THE JOSHUA GROUP: $5,000 · EducationTHE JOSHU…Perry County Literacy Council: $5,000 · EducationPerry Cou…ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationELIZABETH…Halifax Communities That Care: $5,000 · EducationHalifax C…THE VISTA SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationTHE VISTA…DREAM PARTNERSHIP: $5,000 · EducationDREAM PAR…CHALKBOARD FINANCIAL: $3,000 · EducationCHALKBOAR…GOVERNOR MIFFLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOLS: $2,500 · EducationSPARKS FOUNDATION INC: $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…YORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterYORK HABI…SAFE HARBOUR INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HARB…TRI-COUNTY HDC LTD: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTRI-COUNT…OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterOPPORTUNI…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 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 budgetPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBLOOM FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCLARE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLHM SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CUMBERLAND & PERRY COUNTIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHARRISBURG FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAITLIN'S SMILES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOWER PACKS PROJECT: $8,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BETHANY INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPEER OF LEBANON COUNTY: $6,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE BERKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIM ABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP HEBRON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGamut Theatre Group: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONNECTIONS WORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION COMMUNITY CARE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOUR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget18 SOUTH YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HARRISBURG CAPITAL REGION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPerry County Literacy Council: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYORK FRESH FOOD FARMS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONTACT HELPLINE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC OF ALLENTOWN PA: $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOFFMAN HOMES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDHEART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 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

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 115 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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