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Nason Foundation

To support & promote the health and vitality of our local community through financial support and education.

$179k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$156kPublic Safety & Disaster$141kRecreation & Sports$122kEducation$55kEnvironment$25kHuman Services$23kFood & Nutrition$19k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $92,319, the rows itemized in this filing. The $179,229 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $86,910 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
$10,725
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES EMS COUNCIL$45,000
ROARING SPRING COMMUNITY LIBRARY$18,594
FRIENDSHIP FIRE COMPANY$10,725
THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
YES TO KIDS$8,000
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 (FY20–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BLAIR REGIONAL YMCA: $3k → 13%BLAIR REGIONAL YMCA: $2k → 13%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Nason Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 82%.

Nason Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$363k · 9 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$363k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+1%

Still filing today

89%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SA
    SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $191k · revenue +33%
  • DM
    DR & MRS AL GARVER MEMORIAL YMCA & YWCA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $47k · revenue +33%
  • MC
    MORRISONS COVE MEMORIAL PARK ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • RT
    RAILS TO TRAILS OF BEDFORD COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • LT
    LIBERTY TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Mercersburg Montgomery Peters & Warren Volunteer Fire and Ambulance

Mmp&w volunteer fire and ambulance company provides fire, rescue, and ambulance service to the citizens of mercersburg and the three surrounding rural townshiops in pennsylvania. it serves all the citizens in a 157 square mile first due…

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2
Millersburg Fire Co No 1

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Holy Redeemer Health System

As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.

Health
4
Marklesburg Volunteer Fire Company Number 1

Fire protection service for the marklesburg area

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Williamsport Area Ambulance Service Cooperative

Medical transport

Health
6
North Penn Volunteer Fire Company

To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.

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7
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
8
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
9
Wellsboro Fire Department

To provide volunteer fire and rescue services to the borough of wellsboro and the townships of charleston, delmar and shippen in tioga county pennsylvania.

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10
Landisburg Fire Company

Maintain fire and emergency equipment to provide continued protection for all persons in spring township, landisburg boro, and surrounding area

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department
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12
Summerhill Township Volunteer Fire Co

To provide fire and emergency services to community

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Village At Morrisons Cove; the most unlike its peers is The Giorgio Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $190,730 · HealthSOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES…American Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncHOMEWOOD LIVING MARTINSBURG INC: $15,000 · HealthHOMEWOOD LIVING MARTINSBURG INCDR & MRS AL GARVER MEMORIAL YMCA & YWCA: $47,291 · OtherDR & MRS AL GARVER MEMORIAL …RAILS TO TRAILS OF BEDFORD COUNTY INC: $25,000 · OtherRAILS TO TRAILS OF BEDFORD C…LIBERTY TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS: $25,000 · OtherLIBERTY TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORSDRAGON PRIDE FOUNDATION: $11,134 · OtherDRAGON PRIDE FOUNDATIONTHE VILLAGE AT MORRISONS COVE: $10,000 · OtherTHE VILLAGE AT MORRISONS COV…YES TO KIDS INC: $8,000 · OtherYES TO KIDS INCUNITED WAY OF BLAIR COUNTY: $6,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationSAINT FRANCIS …ROARING SPRING COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $20,768 · EducationROARING SPRING…HOLLIDAYSBURG AMERICAN LEGION AMBULANCE SERVICE IN: $23,500 · Public Safety & DisasterHOLLIDAYSBU…CLAYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCLAYSBURG V…FRIENDSHIP FIRE COMPANY: $10,725 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDSHIP …MORRISONS COVE MEMORIAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $29,800 · Recreation & SportsMARTINSBURG YOUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOLLIDAYSBURG YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $4,768 · Human ServicesTHE GIORGIO FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Health$225,730Other$133,425Education$70,768Public Safety & Disaster$54,225Recreation & Sports$29,800Youth Development$20,000Human Services$4,768Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $190,730 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDR & MRS AL GARVER MEMORIAL YMCA & YWCA: $47,291 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetMORRISONS COVE MEMORIAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $29,800 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHOLLIDAYSBURG AMERICAN LEGION AMBULANCE SERVICE IN: $23,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetROARING SPRING COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $20,768 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMARTINSBURG YOUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCLAYSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWOOD LIVING MARTINSBURG INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE AT MORRISONS COVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BLAIR COUNTY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOLLIDAYSBURG YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $4,768 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIORGIO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Central Pennsylvania …The Bruno & Lena Dego…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Pennsylvania Community FoundationPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation · The Bruno & Lena Degol Family Found · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Nason Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nason Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nason Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nason 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 20 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 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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