· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST NICHOLASST MARY'S CHURCH | $5,000 |
| GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| THE LANDS AT HILLSIDE FARMS | $2,000 |
| WOMEN IN AVIATION NEPA CHAPTER | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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 PARKSone grant, 2021 · $30k
- LCLUZERNE COUNTY RIVERFRONT PARKone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
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.
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Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 213 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of Good Counsel - Knights of Columbus Council 15658 ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds LEEDS FOUNDATION PBC INC ↗
- Who funds The Lands at Hillside Farms ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTRE FOR PADRE PIO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Blackhorse Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blackhorse Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: 15% of income from government
How this is measured
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