· Private foundation
Parmer Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of PARMER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $1,020,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,074,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,053,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $280k
- $250k+1 grant · $606k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hospice of Central PA | $606,000 |
| Community Evangelical Free Church | $120,000 |
| Thrive Ministry | $100,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $60,000 |
| New Hope Pastoral Ministries | $35,000 |
| Church Without Walls | $30,000 |
| Medical Center Foundation | $17,000 |
| Covenant Christian Academy (CCA) | $15,000 |
| One Mission Society | $10,000 |
| Living Water Community Church | $10,000 |
| Bethesda Mission | $6,000 |
| Christian Churches United | $2,500 |
| Calvary Baptist Church | $1,100 |
| Central PA Food Bank | $1,100 |
| Midwest Food Bank | $750 |
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.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 12 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $819k 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
- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2022 · $962k · revenue +9%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +27%
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home3× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CBChristian Business Men's Connectionone grant, 2022 · $85k
- DADisabled American Veteransone grant, 2022 · $57k
- KSKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +18%
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.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
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.
To provide quality health and human services in response to identified needs in our service area and to provide for the basic health and human service needs of all persons, regardless of ability to pay.
Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
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.
See schedule o description of our mission and vision.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
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 54 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 MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THRIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA PREGNANCY CENTERSINC ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Community Aid Inc · United Way of the Capital Region · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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.