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Paul a Troutman Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$187kHealth$78kReligion$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kHuman Services$16kEmployment$11kPublic Benefit$9kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$772k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,500
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$2,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$2,500
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$2,500
LOWER DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT$2,200
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
MILLERSBURG FIRE COMPANY NO 1$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
REGAN JURY$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $2k → 12%THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
WV
MD
DC
OK
AL
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$352k · 35 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
15

Total granted

$352k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+9%

Still filing today

37%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther

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

  • MF
    MILLERSBURG FIRE CO NO 1
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +95%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +4%
  • SU
    SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +28%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
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
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Delaware Valley University

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…

10
Highmark Health Group

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…

11
Misericordia University

Misericordia university, a catholic liberal arts institution established in the tradition of the sisters of mercy, fosters intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and respect for persons in an environment where all are welcome.values…

Education
12
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennon Organization and the most unlike its peers is Millersburg Fire Co No 1. 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 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%10%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr15%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%20%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr15%15%35–55yr15%42%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
11%
2,822/25,844

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.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOWER DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICT — $32,200 · OtherLOWER DAUPHIN SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient — $31,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $22,000 · OtherGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHMILLERSBURG BOROUGH INC — $14,800 · OtherMILLERSBURG BOROUGH INCGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL PA — $11,300 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $11,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $11,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherYMCA OF NORTHERN DAUPHIN COUNTY — $9,250 · Other+26 more — $107,300 · Other+26 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $16,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNI…American Heart Association Inc — $11,725 · HealthAmerican Heart A…ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $10,425 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDA…MILLERSBURG AREA AMBULANCE ASSN — $8,300 · HealthMILLERSBURG AREA…GAUDENZIA INC — $6,500 · HealthGAUDENZIA INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,700 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $14,900 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $2,000 · EducationCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH — $2,000 · EducationELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationTHE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC — $10,725 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $9,850 · Human ServicesMILLERSBURG FIRE CO NO 1 — $17,700 · Public Safety & DisasterNED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART — $3,800 · EnvironmentPENNON ORGANIZATION — $2,250 · Arts & CultureHERSHEY AREA PLAYHOUSE — $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$261,050Health$57,150Education$24,900Human Services$20,575Public Safety & Disaster$17,700Environment$3,800Arts & Culture$2,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILLERSBURG FIRE CO NO 1 — $17,700 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $16,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $14,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $11,725 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC — $10,725 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $10,425 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $9,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMILLERSBURG AREA AMBULANCE ASSN — $8,300 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMILLERSBURG AREA POOL ASSN INC — $8,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC — $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART — $3,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNON ORGANIZATION — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERSHEY AREA PLAYHOUSE — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 MILLERSBURG FIRE CO NO 1
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds THE ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds MILLERSBURG AREA AMBULANCE ASSN
  • Who funds MILLERSBURG AREA POOL ASSN INC
  • Who funds GAUDENZIA INC
  • Who funds NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds PENNON ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

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.

United Way of the Capital RegionPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Capital Region · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Miter Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile 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 Paul a Troutman Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Paul a Troutman Foundation Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Paul a Troutman Foundation Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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