· Private foundation
P a Staples Testamentary Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY HARRISBURG | $2,000 |
| HERSHEY- DERRY TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| HERSHEY ROTARY CLUB | $1,500 |
| WILLIAM E DEARDEN FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| HERSHEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| HERSHEY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| LEADER CENTER FOR ACTIVE LIFE | $1,000 |
| GRETNA THEATRE | $1,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG | $850 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of your 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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION5× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +0%
- TMTHE MS HERSHEY FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +104%
- THTHE HERSHEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2017 · $1k
- MHMORTEL HIGH HOPES FOR HAITI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -11%
- AMAACA MUSEUM INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +1%
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.
Grounded in the tradition of dr. maria montessori, our school provides carefully prepared learning environments for children from birth to 18 years. our community fosters personal and academic growth, independence, confidence,…
The discovery, collection, preservation, restoration, and presentation of the history, historical artifacts, buildings, documents, grounds, and all material which will illustrate and demonstrate the history and culture of jacobsburg, the…
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
Organized hockey program for youth eighteen years of age or younger.
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
Harrisburg academy offers an academically challenging and globally minded liberal arts education that encourages each student to reach his or her full potential. in our commitment to excellence, we provide tools and teach skills that will…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
See schedule othe harrisburg university of science and technology offers innovative academic and research programs in science and technology that respond to local and global needs. the institution fosters a diverse community of learners,…
The mission of the dha is to work toward making downtown hershey amazing, to respect and preserve the unique heritage bequeathed by milton s. hershey, and to promote the quality of life for all residents and visitors of derry township.
Mshmc's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate, culturally responsive and equitable care, educate and trains healthcare…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aaca Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds THE MS HERSHEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERSHEY-DERRY TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HERSHEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #544 ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HERSHEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MORTEL HIGH HOPES FOR HAITI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AACA MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE VISTA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COCOA PACKS INC ↗
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: United Way of the Capital Region · Penn State Health · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Hall Foundation · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Link Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Ppl Foundation · 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 P a Staples Testamentary Trust 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.