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The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn

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.

$6.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$3.3MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$980kArts & Culture$342kRecreation & Sports$200kPhilanthropy$185kCommunity Improvement$80kFood & Nutrition$73kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,824,104
Median grant
1
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS$6,824,104
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS: $35k → 12%BEYOND VIOLENCE INC: $5k → 14%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS: $35k → 12%HANDUP FOUNDATION: $63k → 14%TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND CARE CENTER INC: $15k → 10%HANDUP FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 10%DANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $9k → 10%REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER: $15k → 10%COMMUNITY ZONE: $20k → 11%TRANSITIONS OF PA: $17k → 11%DIG FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY ZONE: $10k → 11%CONCERNED CITIZENS CHILDCARE INC: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 35 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
97

Total granted

$30M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+18%

Still filing today

77%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • SU
    SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +21%
  • GH
    GEISINGER HEALTH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $604k · revenue +118%
  • GS
    Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $425k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • EC
    EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $498k · revenue +28%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $252k
  • NC
    NORTHUMBERLAND COUNCIL FOR ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $210k

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

04Your field

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.

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Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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2
Dalton Community Library

Public lending library

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3
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
4
Scranton Public Library

Public lending library

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5
Bethlehem Area Public Library

To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.

Education
6
Adamstown Area Library

The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…

Education
7
North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

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8
Joseph T Simpson Public Library

The joseph t. simpson library is the community's library, responsive to needs and desires for knowledge, understanding, enrichment, entertainment, and connection.

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9
Taylor Community Library Association

Public lending library

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10
Carbondale Public Library

Public lending library

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11
Lycoming College

The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.

Education
12
Penn Hills Library

A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Susquehanna Valley United Way and the most unlike its peers is Fetherston Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent Day SchoolsHunting & Fishing ClubsAnimal Welfare OrganizationsPublic Library SystemsVolunteer Fire & Emergency …Senior Residential CareEducational Institution Sup…Women's Crisis Support Serv…Veterans Social ClubsRegional Economic Developme…Labor Union OrganizationsHomeless Services & Basic N…Community Health CentersRegional Chambers of Commer…Affordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%8%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr23%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr23%61%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/96
the rest of the field
8%
310/3,819

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.

04the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 132 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/87
Grantees still filing
64/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS — $25,237,444 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS+77 more — $2,606,292 · Other+77 moreSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $2,157,500 · EducationSUSQUEHANN…WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $200,000 · EducationWYOMING SE…+22 more — $543,119 · Education+22 moreGEISINGER HEALTH — $604,000 · HealthEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL — $497,899 · HealthA COMMUNITY CLINIC — $115,000 · Health+5 more — $38,480 · HealthHANDUP FOUNDATION — $72,500 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ZONE — $30,000 · Human ServicesDANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $18,556 · Human ServicesTRANSITIONS OF PA — $17,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesTRANSITIONAL HOUSING & CARE CENTER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesDIG FURNITURE BANK — $10,000 · Human ServicesCONCERNED CITIZENS CHILD CARE INC — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,456 · Human ServicesSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY — $182,797 · PhilanthropyKULPMONT 100 INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropySELINSGROVE AREA RECREATION INC — $150,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureA & B CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $21,164 · Arts & CultureWEST BRANCH ARTS CONSORTIUM — $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSTAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE — $6,000 · Arts & CultureBLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$27,843,736Education$2,900,619Health$1,255,379Human Services$263,512Philanthropy$202,797Recreation & Sports$155,000Arts & Culture$84,164

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $2,157,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH — $604,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL — $497,899 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA — $424,897 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY — $182,797 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetSELINSGROVE AREA RECREATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetA COMMUNITY CLINIC — $115,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetTHE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC — $92,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHANDUP FOUNDATION — $72,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONALD L HEITER COMMUNITY CENTER — $64,600 over 1y, 23% of budgetBucknell University — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY — $58,100 over 2y, 16% of budgetJOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY — $55,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetPUBLIC LIBRARY FOR UNION COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC — $49,619 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetUNION COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM — $40,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE IMPROVED MILTON EXPERIENCE — $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES — $22,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetA & B CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $21,164 over 2y, 40% of budgetEOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $20,245 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $18,556 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $18,550 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetLACKAWANNA COLLEGE — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSITIONS OF PA — $17,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRIESTLEY FORSYTH MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $15,464 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGREATER LYCOMING HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetREGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTRANSITIONAL HOUSING & CARE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSUNCOM INDUSTRIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATIONS AND RESOURSE SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWEST BRANCH ARTS CONSORTIUM — $12,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $12,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLEWISBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $11,370 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOSTLY MUTTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE GREEN DRAGON FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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.

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.

First Community Found…Degenstein Charitable…Community Giving Foun…Degenstein Charles B …Ppl FoundationGuyer FoundationFern & Gladys Moyer M…2006 Edward S Rosenbl…Central Pennsylvania …Seiple Family Foundat…Sunbury Northumberlan…Susquehanna Valley Un…
First Community Foundation Partnership of PennsylvaniaPA91.1× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Degenstein Charitable Foundation · Community Giving Foundation · Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr · Ppl Foundation · Guyer Foundation · Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Seiple Family Foundation · Sunbury Northumberland Commtr · Susquehanna Valley United Way

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 The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn?

Find your warmest path to The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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