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The Carlisle Club at a glance

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The Carlisle Club

Social and recreational club

$162k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$163kPublic Safety & Disaster$59kHuman Services$28kPhilanthropy$27kHealth$10kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $80,580, the rows itemized in this filing. The $161,915 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $81,335 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS CHARITIES$27,580
YELLOW BREECHES ANGLERS$18,000
NORTH MIDDLETON FIRE COMPANY$15,000
HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PA$10,000
ZEMBO SHRINE$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PA: $10k → 12%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$253k · 6 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$253k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+4%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterAnimalsHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman 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

  • VC
    VARIOUS CHARITIES
    7× · 2017–2025 · $142k
  • NM
    NORTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 1
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • YB
    Yellow Breeches Anglers & Conservation Assn
    2× · 2024–2025 · $29k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • CF
    CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1 VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +156%
  • TF
    TERRY FRAKER SOFTBALL TEAM
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
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
North Penn Volunteer Fire Company

To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.

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2
Millersburg Fire Co No 1

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Lower Burrell Vol Fire #3

To provide fire and ambulance (and other emergency support) for emergency calls for the City of Lower Burrell, PA which has approximately 14,000 residents.

—
4
Central Volunteer Fire Department

Operation of a volunteer fire company for the local communities in pike county, pa.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Community Fire South Whitehall Twp

The organization provides fire protection for properties & vehicles or other rescue services to 18,000 residents & community of 17 sq miles of south whitehall township, lehigh county, pa.

—
6
Yorktown Heights Engine Co 1

Discharge the duties of a volunteer fire association

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Frazeysburg Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide emergency medical services and fire runs Training of volunteer EMS and fire personnel maintenance and repair of equipment.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Karthaus Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer organization providing emergency fire and rescue services to karthaus, covington, and west keating townships located in both clearfield and centre counties in pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Hillsboro Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department serving hillsboro, wv and surrounding areas

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Marydel Volunteer Fire Company of Marydel Delaware Inc

The primary purpose is to preserve and protect lives and property in the marydel, delaware community, and other communities as requested, through the provision of firefighting, rescue, and emergency medical services ("ems").

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Schuylkill County Volunteer Firemens Association of the State

To improve volunteer fire service in Schuylkill County

—
12
Burnsville Volunteer Fire Department

Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens Fire Company No 1 Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association; the most unlike its peers is Hospice of Central Pennsylvania. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS CHARITIES: $141,978 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITIESCARLISLE FIRE AND RESCUE: $20,040 · OtherCARLISLE FIRE AND RESCUEIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTERRY FRAKER SOFTBALL TEAM: $8,500 · OtherVFW MEMORIAL HALL ASSN CORP ORLANDO NEWCOMER POST 477: $7,500 · OtherNORTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 1: $30,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTH MIDDLETO…CITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1 VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCITIZENS FIRE …Yellow Breeches Anglers & Conservation Assn: $28,500 · AnimalsYellow Bre…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · HealthLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC CARLISLE AREA LITTLE LEAGUE: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$193,018Public Safety & Disaster$39,000Animals$28,500Health$20,000Recreation & Sports$12,000Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$6,000

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 budgetNORTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY 1: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYellow Breeches Anglers & Conservation Assn: $28,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC CARLISLE AREA LITTLE LEAGUE: $12,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCITIZENS FIRE COMPANY NO 1 VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetVFW MEMORIAL HALL ASSN CORP ORLANDO NEWCOMER POST 477: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carlisle Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carlisle Club. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of 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 · 0–5%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Carlisle Club?

Find your warmest path to The Carlisle Club 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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 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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