· Private foundation
The Blackhorse Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILKES UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| KINGS COLLEGE | $55,000 |
| RIVERFRONT PARKS COMMITTEE | $37,650 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,500 |
| ST NICHOLASST MARY'S CHURCH | $5,000 |
| GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| THE LANDS AT HILLSIDE FARMS | $2,000 |
| WOMEN IN AVIATION NEPA CHAPTER | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 14 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- WUWILKES UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $989k · revenue +15%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $810k · revenue +10%
- RPRIVERFRONT PARKS COMMITTEE4× · 2022–2025 · $148k · revenue +30% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- CSCHILDREN SERVICE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $50k
- LCLUZERNE COUNTY RIVERFRONT PARKone grant, 2019 · $30k
- LCLUZERNE COUNTY RIVERFRONT PARKSone grant, 2021 · $30k
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 trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
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, & community service.
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
We, trinity health of the mid-atlantic region and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy catholic medical center of southeastern…
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.
Cedar crest college is a liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. the college prepares students for life in a global community by educating the whole student at all stages of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wyoming Valley and the most unlike its peers is Hazleton Art League. 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 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 213 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT PARKS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of Good Counsel - Knights of Columbus Council 15658 ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LEEDS FOUNDATION PBC INC ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds The Lands at Hillside Farms ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTRE FOR PADRE PIO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST ↗
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 Luzerne Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Davidowitz Foundation Inc · Sordoni Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Sordoni Foundation Inc · Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable 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 The Blackhorse Foundation 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.
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% 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.
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