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The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$296M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$291,639,352
Largest grant, FY2024
$291,639,352
Organizations funded a year
1 to 339
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$24M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$292M100%
FY20231$141M100%
FY2021339$19Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$433MEducation$7.1MHealth$4.9MHuman Services$1.9MArts & Culture$925kReligion$668kHousing & Shelter$635kFood & Nutrition$610kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Desales University$362,00010%
Pennsylvania College of Technology$340,0001n/a
Cedar Crest College$340,00011%
Geisinger Commonwealth Sch of Med$340,00011%
Moravian University$340,00010%
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design$340,00014%
Juniata College$340,00010%
Albright College$340,00011%
Lancaster Bible College$340,00011%
Marywood University$340,00010%
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All grantees of The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Desales University$362,00010%
Pennsylvania College of Technology$340,0001n/a
Cedar Crest College$340,00011%
Geisinger Commonwealth Sch of Med$340,00011%
Moravian University$340,00010%
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design$340,00014%
Juniata College$340,00010%
Albright College$340,00011%
Lancaster Bible College$340,00011%
Marywood University$340,00010%
Muhlenberg College$340,00010%
University of Scranton$340,00010%
Lafayette College$340,00010%
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank$255,00010%
Homeland Center$250,00011%
New Hope Ministries Inc$250,00012%
Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development$250,00014%
Dauphin County Library System$250,00013%
Project H O P E Inc$200,0001n/a
Als United Mid-Atlantic$182,50014%
The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc$175,00013%
Harrisburg Area Community College Foundation$170,00016%
Lehigh Carbon Community College Foundation$170,00013%
Williamson College of the Trades$170,00011%
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts$150,00014%
United Way of the Capital Region$125,00011%
Mission for Educating Children With Autism$110,00013%
Boys & Girls Club of Harrisburginc$110,000114%
Mission of Mercy Inc$100,00011%
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania$100,00011%
Leg Up Farm Inc$100,00012%
Housing Association and Development Corporation$100,00019%
Project Share of Carlisle$100,00013%
Villanova University$100,00010%
Charter Arts Foundation$100,00018%
Water Missions International$100,00010%
Dream Partnership$100,000129%
Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pa$100,00011%
Valley Youth House Committee Inc$85,00010%
Gaudenzia Inc$85,00010%
Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank$80,000115%
Community Check Up Center of S$80,000110%
Pinebrook Family Answers$75,00011%
Community Services for Children Inc$75,00010%
United Disabilities Services Foundation$75,00014%
Carlisle Cares$75,00016%
Breakthrough T1d$75,00010%
Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc$65,00011%
Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc$65,00011%
Christian Churches United of the Tri-County Area$60,00011%
Downtown Daily Bread$60,0001n/a
State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc$60,00013%
Leaf Project Inc$50,00019%
Franklin & Marshall College$50,00010%
Stephens Place$50,000121%
Hope Walks Inc$50,00012%
Elizabethtown College$50,00010%
Cocoa Packs Inc$50,000111%
York College of Pennsylvania$50,00010%
Wilson College$50,00010%
Lycoming College$50,00010%
The Clinic for Special Children Inc$50,00011%
Phase 4 Learning Center Inc$50,00012%
Sadler Health Center Corporation$50,00011%
York Habitat for Humanity$50,00014%
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank$50,00010%
Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering Inc$50,000120%
Dayspring Christian Academy$50,00011%
The Children's Home of Reading$50,00015%
Gettysburg College$50,00010%
Harrisburg Police Athletic League$50,0001n/a
Lebanon Valley Volunteers in Medicine Clinic$50,000112%
Dickinson College$50,00010%
Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art$50,00014%
Susan P Byrnes Health Education Center Inc$50,00011%
Scholars Inc$50,00019%
Junior Achievement of South Central Pa$50,00013%
Harrisburg Academy$50,00011%
Brethren Housing Association$50,00014%
Handup Foundation$50,00015%
Bucknell University$50,00010%
Choices Healthcare$50,00010%
Shalom House$50,00016%
Lebanon Valley College$50,00010%
Mission Central Inc$50,00014%
Susquehanna University$50,00010%
Thrive Cil$50,00012%
Boys & Girls Club of Bethlehem$40,000110%
Artsquest$40,00010%
The Arc of Lehigh and Northampton Counties Inc$40,00010%
Resources for Human Development Inc$35,00010%
Berks County Association ft Blind Inc DBA Vision Resource Center of Berks Cnty$35,00015%
Susquehanna River Valley Dental Health Clinic$35,00013%
Keystone Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services$35,00012%
Join Hands Ministry Inc$35,0001n/a
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc$35,00010%
Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties$32,50013%
Berks Catholic High School Inc$32,0001n/a
Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc$30,00010%
Spanish American Civic Association for Equality Inc$30,00010%
Feel Your Boobies Foundation$30,000120%
The Arc of Dauphin County Inc$30,0001n/a
Project of Easton Inc$30,00012%
Jewish Community Center of Allentown$30,00011%
Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$30,00012%
Ephrata Area Social Services$30,00014%
Family Promise of Carbon County$30,00017%
Children's Home of York$30,00010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley$30,00011%
The Boys and Girls Club of Chambersburg and Shippensburg Inc$30,00015%
Center for Humanistic Change Inc$29,80011%
Family Promise of Harrisburg Capital Region$28,000115%
Casa Guadalupe Center$27,00012%
Allison Hill Community Ministry$25,000118%
Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg$25,00010%
Latino Hispanic American Community Center$25,00018%
Waynesboro Community & Human Services In$25,00013%
Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living Inc$25,00011%
Gamut Theatre Group$25,00014%
Opportunity House$25,00010%
Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation Foundation$25,00015%
Servants Inc$25,00013%
Jewish Community Centre of York Pennsylvania$25,00010%
Good Samaritan Services$25,00011%
Vickie's Angel Walk Inc$25,00014%
North Central Sight Services Inc$25,00010%
Diakon Child Family & Community Ministries$25,00010%
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence$25,00010%
The Janus School$25,00011%
Evangelical Community Hospital$25,00010%
Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc$25,00010%
The Nativity School of Harrisburg$25,00011%
Christian Recovery Aftercare Ministry Inc$25,000116%
Bosler Memorial Library$25,00012%
Lehigh Valley Children's Centers Inc$25,00010%
United Way of York County$25,00010%
Morning Star Pregnancy Services$25,00012%
The Adams County Historical Society$25,00011%
The Lehigh Conference of Churches$25,00010%
Assembly of God Church of Newport Pennsylvania$25,0001n/a
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet$25,00011%
Rabbi David L Silver Yeshiva Academy$25,0001n/a
Camp Susque Inc$23,00012%
The Conner M Holland Foundation$20,000121%
Martin Library Association$20,00012%
York Health Foundation$20,00010%
Operation Warm Inc$20,00010%
Laughing at My Nightmare Inc$20,00015%
Rebuilding Together Greater Harrisburg$20,000110%
Girls on the Run Mid State Pa$20,00014%
Equi-Librium Inc$20,00013%
Allentown Symphony Association Inc$20,00011%
Guidespring Inc$20,000114%
United Way of Franklin County$20,00012%
Bench Mark Program$20,00014%
Logos Academy$20,00010%
Dreamwrights Youth and Family Theatre$20,00013%
Parish Resource Center Inc$20,00015%
United Way of Wyoming Valley$20,00010%
Peyton Walker Foundation$18,90015%
Lancaster Emergency Medical Services Association$18,60010%
Lark Farm Inc$18,000125%
Tower Health at Home Fka Tower Health at Home - Berks$17,00010%
Millersburg Ferry Boat Association$16,300123%
Aspire to Autonomy Inc$15,0001n/a
The Hillside School$15,00011%
Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation$15,00013%
Capital Area Therapeutic Riding Association$15,00015%
Hope Station Opportunity Area Neighborhood Council$15,00019%
Faith Immanuel Presbyterian Church$15,0001n/a
Christ the King Deaf Church$15,0001n/a
Turning Point Women's Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc$15,00014%
Bloom for Women Inc$15,00012%
Independent Transportation Network Lehigh Valley$15,000110%
Firetree Place$15,00012%
Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania$15,00011%
Transitional Housing & Care Center Inc$14,00014%
Cumberland Valley Preservation Soci Ety at Silver S$12,5001n/a
York County Literacy Council$12,00011%
Third Street Alliance for Women and Children$12,00010%
Elizabethtown Community Housing & Outreach Services$10,00011%
Christs Home$10,00010%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$10,00010%
Lancaster Country Day School$10,00010%
The Yocum Institute for Arts Education Inc$10,00011%
Medards House$10,00014%
The Children's Home of Easton Inc$10,00010%
Real Life Community Services$10,00011%
Anthonys Way Foundation$10,000113%
The Neighborhood Center$10,00018%
Adams County Children's Advocacy Center$10,00011%
Susquehanna Art Museum$10,00011%
Totem Pole Playhouse$10,00011%
National Alliance of Mental Illness York County$10,00016%
Ripple Community Inc$10,00012%
Young Thinkers of York Inc$10,00018%
Cultural Alliance of York County$10,00011%
Skip Program$10,0001n/a
Gigis Playhouse Inc$10,0001n/a
Historical Society Dauphin County$10,00015%
Reading Science Center$10,00013%
Capital Area Greenbelt Assoc Inc$10,00013%
Wildlife for Everyone Endowment Foundation$10,00013%
Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair$10,000117%
Unite Central Pa Inc$10,0001n/a
The Arc of Cumberland and Perry Counties$10,00010%
Pappus House$10,00011%
Planned Parenthood Keystone$10,00010%
Community Bike Works$10,00011%
Franklin County Historical Society- Kittochtinny$10,00016%
Revelations of Freedom Ministries$10,00011%
Goggle Works$10,00010%
Lehigh University$10,00010%
Nicodemus Center for Ceramic Studies Inc$8,60015%
Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc$8,00010%
Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz$8,00014%
Center for Advanced School Teaching and Learning$7,750112%
Central Pennsylvania Conservancy Inc$7,50011%
Adams County Arts Council$7,50011%
On-Fire Youth Ministries$7,50011%
Touchstone Theatre$7,50011%
Pennon Organization$7,50010%
Easter Seal Society of Western and Central Pennsylvania$7,50010%
Help for Oncology Problems and Emotional Support$6,50011%
Perry County Council of the Arts$6,50012%
Lykens Valley Children's Museum$6,000112%
Lehigh Valley Military Affairs Council$6,000113%
Penncares$6,00010%
The Capital Region Literacy Council$5,00016%
Bethlehem Catholic High School Inc$5,0001n/a
Allentown Central Catholic High School$5,0001n/a
Allentown Band Inc$5,00013%
Raise28$5,00011%
Latin American Alliance$5,00016%
Friends of Wildwood Lake Nature Center Inc$5,00013%
Prima Arts Inc$5,00011%
Faith Friendship Ministries$5,00010%
Sparks Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Family Connection of Easton Inc$5,00011%
The American Literacy Corporation$5,0001n/a
Ronald McDonald House of Danville Inc$5,00010%
Central Susquehanna Sight Services$4,00011%
Dillsburg Arts and Revitalization Council$3,0001n/a
Berks Sinfonietta Inc$2,50016%
Pink Heals Lehigh Valley Chapter$1,00016%
The Forks Area Art Society$1,0001n/a

Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($438M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDesales University: $362,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCedar Crest College: $340,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGeisinger Commonwealth Sch of Med: $340,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMoravian University: $340,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPennsylvania College of Art & Design: $340,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetJuniata College: $340,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlbright College: $340,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLancaster Bible College: $340,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMarywood University: $340,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMuhlenberg College: $340,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $340,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLafayette College: $340,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Food Bank: $255,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomeland Center: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNew Hope Ministries Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSchreiber Center for Pediatric Development: $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetDauphin County Library System: $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAls United Mid-Atlantic: $182,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc: $175,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHarrisburg Area Community College Foundation: $170,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetLehigh Carbon Community College Foundation: $170,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWilliamson College of the Trades: $170,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWhitaker Center for Science and the Arts: $150,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUnited Way of the Capital Region: $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMission for Educating Children With Autism: $110,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Harrisburginc: $110,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMission of Mercy Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHospice of Central Pennsylvania: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLeg Up Farm Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHousing Association and Development Corporation: $100,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetProject Share of Carlisle: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetVillanova University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharter Arts Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetWater Missions International: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDream Partnership: $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGirl Scouts in the Heart of Pa: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetValley Youth House Committee Inc: $85,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGaudenzia Inc: $85,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAllentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank: $80,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCommunity Check Up Center of S: $80,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPinebrook Family Answers: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Services for Children Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Disabilities Services Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCarlisle Cares: $75,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVia of the Lehigh Valley Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChristian Churches United of the Tri-County Area: $60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA125.2× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · Ppl Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Lancaster County Community Foundation · York County Community Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Members 1st Charitable Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

About The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation

How much does The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation give?
The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $296,087,952 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 339 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (85%), Education (1%), Health (1%).
Who are The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Desales University ($362k), Pennsylvania College of Technology ($340k), Cedar Crest College ($340k).
Does The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, United Way of the Capital Region, Ppl Foundation.
Where is The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation based?
The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation is based in PA.

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 341 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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