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Overlook Estate Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN STATE | $750,000 |
| WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE | $17,700 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF NEPA | $15,000 |
| COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY | $12,600 |
| THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NORTHEASTERN PENN | $10,000 |
| MAISHA HOLISTIC AFRICA FOUNDATION | $8,400 |
| OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $7,500 |
| LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY | $6,300 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $5,928 |
| WYOMING COUNTRY CULTURAL CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE LANDS AT HILLSIDE FARMS | $4,600 |
| EVERHART MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| HIGHLIGHTS FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $791k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY6× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +380%
- WCWYOMING COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +20%
- LSLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +248%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $14k
- HAHOUSTIC AFRICA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $13k
- SHSPRING HILLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue ×29
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.
The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
The mission of the Willistown Conservation Trust is to preserve and manage the open land, rural character, scenic, recreational, historic, agricultural and natural resources of the Willistown area and nearby communities, and to share these…
The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art preserves and presents elements of art and nature that highlight the extraordinary beauty of the Brandywine region in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Brandywine Conservancy protects and conserves…
To protect the quality & beauty of the wissahickon creek & to enhance life in the watershed.
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waverly Community House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Serendipity Therapeutic Riding Center Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KISS THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON AREA JOINT RECREATION BOARD ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART ↗
- Who funds The Lands at Hillside Farms ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds SERENDIPITY THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER LLC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · The Willary Foundation · The Ross Family Foundation · Eureka Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · The Luzerne Foundation · Robert y Moffat Charitable Trust · Margaret Briggs Foundation
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 Overlook Estate 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.
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.
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