· Private foundation
Sachs Mary C Tr U W
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG | $66,500 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING | $31,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC HARRISBURG ASSOCIATION INC | $8,000 |
| YESHIVA ACADEMY OF HARRISBURG FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $5,000 |
| HADASSAH THE WOMENS ZIONIST ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| DICKINSON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS | $5,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DAUPHIN COUNTY | $2,500 |
| CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| CHRIST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY CHILDRENS SERVICE | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $619k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- HHHistoric Harrisburg Assoc8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +225%
- DCDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM7× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +32%
- HSHISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY8× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- HAHARISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $3k
- YMYOUNG MEN WOMENS HEBREW ASSNone grant, 2024 · $1k
- LVLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +25%
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.
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…
The jewish home of greater harrisburg provides a continuum of primarily senior living services to the central pennsylvania community. our mission, based on jewish values, is to enhance the quality of life of those we serve and their…
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
Public lending library
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Public lending library
See schedule o - the american jewish historical society (the "society") is the oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the united states. the society provides access to more than 30 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dauphin County Library System and the most unlike its peers is Cumberland County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 46 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Historic Harrisburg Assoc ↗
- Who funds HOMELAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RABBI DAVID L SILVER YESHIVA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE CARES ↗
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA ACADEMY OF HARRISBURG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOOD COLLEGE ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Hall Foundation · The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Dorothy B and S Lawrence Koplovitz · George & Rita Patterson Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Schwab-Silfen 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 Sachs Mary C Tr U W 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% 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.