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Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation

The mission of the PENNSYLVANIA VETERANS FOUNDATION (pvf) is to provide assistance and support to pennsylvania veterans and their families.

$246k
Granted FY2019
8
Itemized grants FY2019
8
Organizations funded FY2019
25%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$210k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 25% of the organizations Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Public BenefitHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20198$210k25%
FY201814$325k57%
FY20179$268kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$590kHousing & Shelter$188kRecreation & Sports$15kHuman Services$10kPublic Benefit$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Victory Therapeutic Horsemanship$155,000374%
Shamrock Reins$150,000227%
Veteran's Helping Hand Inc$65,000334%
Davids Drive 831 Inc$60,000326%
Dog Tags$60,000226%
Racing for Heroes Inc$53,000125%
Canyon Heroes$37,2001n/a
Trails End Conservancy$30,0001n/a
Tenfold Community Lending$30,00012%
Equiteam Support Services$30,00036%
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All grantees of Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Victory Therapeutic Horsemanship$155,000374%
Shamrock Reins$150,000227%
Veteran's Helping Hand Inc$65,000334%
Davids Drive 831 Inc$60,000326%
Dog Tags$60,000226%
Racing for Heroes Inc$53,000125%
Canyon Heroes$37,2001n/a
Trails End Conservancy$30,0001n/a
Tenfold Community Lending$30,00012%
Equiteam Support Services$30,00036%
Hope on Horseback$25,000114%
Trees Trails Springs & Things$25,0002n/a
Veterans Brotherhood$15,000216%
Mission Homestead$15,0001n/a
Players Using Competition Helping Other Grow Inc$15,0001n/a
Hunts for Healing Inc$10,00016%
York County Human Services Fund$10,0001n/a
Guardians Nest$10,0001n/a
Union Mission of Latrobe Inc$7,50011%

Where it is load-bearing

Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVictory Therapeutic Horsemanship: $155,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetShamrock Reins: $150,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetVeteran's Helping Hand Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetDavids Drive 831 Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetDog Tags: $60,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetRacing for Heroes Inc: $53,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTenfold Community Lending: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEquiteam Support Services: $30,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHope on Horseback: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetVeterans Brotherhood: $15,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHunts for Healing Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetUnion Mission of Latrobe Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation 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.

About Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation

How much does Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation give?
Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $210,000, out of $246,373 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (73%), Housing & Shelter (23%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
Who are Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Victory Therapeutic Horsemanship ($155k), Shamrock Reins ($150k), Veteran's Helping Hand Inc ($65k).
Does Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation based?
Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports $312k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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