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S Luther Savidge Charitable Trust 017775

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.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$188kReligion$157kFood & Nutrition$89kRecreation & Sports$36kCrime & Legal$25kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$17kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$7,306
Median grant
1
States reached
$891k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$22,254
NORRY SUNBURY AYSO REGION 522$10,000
NORTHUMBERLAND FIRE POICE DEPT$9,450
Individual grant recipient$7,306
Individual grant recipient$7,251
CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$4,846
POINT TOWNSHIP FIRE CO$4,400
BIRTHRIGHT OF SUNBURY$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HERE FOR GOOD: $3k → 11%BOROUGH OF NORTHUMBERLAND: $42k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 11%ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL: $35k → 14%NORTHUMBERLAND FIRE POICE DEPT: $33k → 14%ST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $32k → 14%ST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $28k → 14%BOROUGH OF NORTHUMBERLAND: $25k → 14%ST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $22k → 14%BOROUGH OF NORTHUMBERLAND: $22k → 14%BOROUGH OF NORTHUMBERLAND: $21k → 14%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $20k → 14%NORTHUMBERLAND FIRE POICE DEPT: $19k → 14%ST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $19k → 14%ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL: $18k → 14%ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL: $14k → 14%POINT TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS: $12k → 14%ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL: $12k → 14%NORTHUMBERLAND FIRE POICE DEPT: $11k → 14%NORRY SUNBURY AYSO REGION 522: $10k → 14%BOROUGH OF NORTHUMBERLAND: $10k → 14%Point Township: $10k → 14%ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL: $10k → 14%NORTHUMBERLAND FIRE POICE DEPT: $9k → 14%BOROUGH OF NORTHUMBERLAND: $8k → 14%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $8k → 14%BOROUGH OF NORTHUMBERLAND: $7k → 14%POINT TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS: $7k → 14%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $7k → 14%NORTHUMBERLAND FIRE POICE DEPT: $6k → 14%NORTHUMBERLAND FIRE POICE DEPT: $6k → 14%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $6k → 14%Northumberland Fire Co-No 1: $5k → 14%POINT TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS: $5k → 14%GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 14%Shikellamy Acorn Little League: $5k → 14%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 14%POINT TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS: $5k → 14%POINT TOWNSHIP FIRE CO: $4k → 14%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 14%Point Township Supervisors: $3k → 14%CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 14%American Legion Auxiliary Unit Of: $1k → 14%BOROUGH OF NORTHUMBERLAND: $573 → 14%MILTON LUTHERAN CHURCH: $1k → 14%SHIKELLAMY BAND ASSOCIATION INC: $13k → 14%GREATER SUSQUEHANN VALLEY YMCA: $9k → 14%Birthright of Sunbury: $750 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$498k · 9 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$498k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+36%

Still filing today

11%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2025 · $135k
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
    4× · 2022–2025 · $101k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2017–2021 · $89k

Funded once

  • SB
    Shikellamy Band Association Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -19% · 29% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • GS
    Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +36%
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $135,380 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $101,321 · OtherST JOHNS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $88,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHUMBERLAND FIRE POICE DEPT: $83,450 · OtherNORTHUMBERLAND FIRE POICE DEPTCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $49,566 · OtherCHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $32,206 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+12 more: $58,022 · Other+12 moreShikellamy Band Association Inc: $13,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$548,645Arts & Culture$13,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShikellamy Band Association Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA: $8,727 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF SUNBURY INC: $2,750 over 5y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Shikellamy Band Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHUMBERLAND FIRE CO-NO 1 ↗
  • Who funds POINT TOWNSHIP FIRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF SUNBURY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization S Luther Savidge Charitable Trust 017775 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S Luther Savidge Charitable Trust 017775. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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