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Partnership for Better Health
The PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH champions and invests in ideas, initiatives, and collaborations that improve the health of the people and communities in our region.
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.
The 54 grants below total $2,719,149 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,039,460 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $320,311 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $727k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SADLER HEALTH CENTER CORPORATION | $545,000 |
| NLC LIFEWORKS | $165,000 |
| CARLISLE CARES | $135,000 |
| TOMORROW'S NEIGHBORS | $100,000 |
| YWCA CARLISLE | $97,280 |
| SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES INC | $90,000 |
| CHURCH WORLD SERVICE HARRISBURG (PA) | $75,000 |
| PA COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COLLABORATIVE | $69,250 |
| LEAF PROJECT INC | $65,000 |
| THE HARBOR CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE INC | $60,776 |
| SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| HOPE STATION OPPORTUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL | $55,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ESCAPE INC | $53,784 |
| THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC | $53,500 |
| SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH | $51,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 15 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k 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
- SHSADLER HEALTH CENTER CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +129%
- SASUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2025 · $740k · revenue +4%
- ESEMPLOYMENT SKILLS CENTER5× · 2017–2025 · $701k · revenue +26% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- MPMERAKEY PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2020 · $186k · revenue +16%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +20%
- CKCARLISLE KIWANIS CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -78% · 30% of their budget
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 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…
To provide general management and administrative services for subsidiary affiliates, which are exempt, community-based home health care organizations. see schedule o for additional information
To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
Berks counseling center (bcc) is a recovery oriented certified community behavioral health center (ccbhc) with an integrated behavioral and physical health model of service delivery. the center provides a holistic approach to a culturally…
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.
Our vision is a community that embraces specialized care at the end of life with the same importance that is given at the beginning of life. our guiding principles are service - to make a difference in the lives of our patients/families,…
The purpose is to provide residential, social and vocational programs in southeastern pennsylvania for rehabilitation of adults with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities.
Ucp of central pennsylvania empowers people of diverse abilities to live meaningful life through innovative support and services.
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…
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…
The pennsylvania association of community health centers (pachc) is a nonprofit association that supports pennsylvania's community health centers in improving health and access to affordable high-quality care. it accomplishes this by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Central Community Action Programs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Compass Immigration Legal Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
110 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 110 of the 138 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 SADLER HEALTH CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYMENT SKILLS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NHS STEVENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE CARES ↗
- Who funds UPMC PINNACLE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SHARE OF CARLISLE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NLC LIFEWORKS ↗
- Who funds HOPE STATION OPPORTUNITY AREA NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CARLISLE PA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION FOR HOME CARE AND HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds MERAKEY PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURG ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds TOMORROWS NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds MARANATHA CARLISLE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CARLISLE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds DIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SPRING TOWNSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PERRY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVEL ↗
- Who funds CONTACT HELPLINE ↗
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 · United Way of the Capital Region · United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland County · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Community Aid Inc · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Members 1st Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Stewart Alexander Md Fdn Tr Udeed · Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable Foundation · The United Way of the Shippensburg Area
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 Partnership for Better Health 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.