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S Luther Savidge Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

S Luther Savidge Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$103kHealth$83kEducation$38kYouth Development$33kPhilanthropy$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kReligion$6kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$611k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY DENTAL$13,000
A COMMUNITY CLINIC INC$12,000
SUSQUEHANNA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$259k · 10 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$259k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+217%

Still filing today

60%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthPhilanthropyHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GS
    Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA
    5× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue +88%
  • JR
    JOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY
    3× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +10%
  • SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY
    2× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • EC
    EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +9%
  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • SS
    SETEBAID SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +217%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
2
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers

Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…

Health
3
Gettysburg Hospital

Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.

Health
4
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
5
Lehigh Valley Physician Group

Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…

Health
6
Vna Home Health Services

Vna home health services provides part-time, skilled, intermittent home health services that have been ordered by a physician and are medically necessary to the treatment of an illness or injury. vna home health services offers a wide…

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7
Schuylkill Health System Medical Group Inc

Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network, part of jefferson health. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health…

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8
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…

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9
Community Medical Center

Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, and community service.

Health
10
Chambersburg Hospital

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.

Health
11
The Good Samaritan Hospital of Lebanon Pennsylvania

The good samaritan hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare that improves the overall health of the community.

Health
12
Sadler Health Center Corporation

To advance the health of our community by providing inclusive, high quality and compassionate care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Susquehanna Valley United Way; the most unlike its peers is Setebaid Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA: $103,071 · OtherGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCAJOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $37,638 · OtherJOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARYSUSQUEHANNA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $32,900 · OtherSUSQUEHANNA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSSUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY DENTAL: $18,000 · OtherSUSQUEHANNA RIVER VALLEY DENTALCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES: $18,000 · OtherCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES+4 more: $6,750 · OtherA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $23,000 · HealthA COMMUNITY CLINICEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $15,000 · HealthEVANGELICAL COMMUNI…KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $8,000 · HealthKEYSTONE HUMAN SERV…+1 more: $1,118 · HealthSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY: $10,750 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 · Human Services
Other$216,359Health$47,118Philanthropy$10,750Human Services$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA: $103,071 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $37,638 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $23,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES: $18,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY: $10,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSETEBAID SERVICES INC: $1,118 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Sunbury Northumberlan…The 1994 Charles B De…Degenstein Charitable…Community Giving Foun…Guyer Foundation2006 Edward S Rosenbl…Sunbury Area Communit…The John and Barbara …Fern & Gladys Moyer M…William J and Ann M R…Degenstein Charles B …First Community Found…
Sunbury Northumberland CommtrFL24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sunbury Northumberland Commtr · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Degenstein Charitable Foundation · Community Giving Foundation · Guyer Foundation · 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundation · Sunbury Area Community Foundation · The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation · Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · William J and Ann M Roll Foundation · Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    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 15 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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