· Private foundation
Paul and Marian Gerhart Charitable Fund
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANCASTERHISTORY ORG | $100,000 |
| FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CHOICES HEALTHCARE | $7,250 |
| WATER STREET MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| RIVIER UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER OF | $4,500 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICE CENTER | $2,500 |
| ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY | $2,250 |
| BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $1,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- LLANCASTERHISTORYORG6× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +188%
- WSWATER STREET MINISTRIES6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +71%
- LPLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +47%
Funded once
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +126%- MSMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC-DOCS WO BORDERSone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CHCOVENANT HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +34%
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.
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…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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.
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.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Street Ministries and the most unlike its peers is The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 LANCASTERHISTORYORG ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FULTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHOICES HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds THE FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER OF PORTSMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Rivier University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICE CENTER DBA RISE ↗
- Who funds ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue 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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation · High Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Hortulani Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Gooding Group Foundation · The Steinman 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 and Marian Gerhart Charitable Fund 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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