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The Graham Foundation at a glance

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The Graham Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.3MHealth$3.7MRecreation & Sports$1.3MArts & Culture$974kHuman Services$622kScience & Tech$600kPhilanthropy$213kHousing & Shelter$132kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $277k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $410k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$1,200,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA$500,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA$250,000
YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA$150,000
YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA$125,000
YSC ACADEMY$85,000
CRISPUS ATTUCKS YORK$50,000
SILVERBACK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONFOR THE ARTS DANCE & ATHLETICS$40,000
LOGOS ACADEMY$40,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$35,000
UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY$30,000
SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY$25,000
THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$20,000
APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$20,000
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 (FY20–24, $545k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $8k → 14%YORK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500k → 9%Olivia's House: $250 → 9%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $250 → 9%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $250 → 9%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $250 → 9%Olivia's House: $250 → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $8k → 9%SpiriTrust Luterhan: $1k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $10k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $8k → 9%Pappus House: $2k → 9%Pappus House: $2k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $5k → 9%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of The Graham Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 42%.

The Graham Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 50 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
32

Total granted

$9.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+39%

Still filing today

64%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2020–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +139%
  • YC
    YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +20%
  • YA
    YSC ACADEMY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $335k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $600k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +17%
  • YO
    YMCA OF YORK COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
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
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
2
York Academy Regional Charter School

With an unrelenting focus on academic excellence, the york academy regional charter school's mission is to challenge students in a diverse learning environment that opens doors for growth, opportunity and global citizenship.

Education
3
York County Bar Association

The york county bar association is a non-profit professional membership association of attorneys and judges. it exists to serve the needs of the lawyers, judges and public of york county. the association and its members have dedicated…

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4
York County Community Foundation

We create a vibrant york county by engaging donors, providing community leadership and investing in high impact initiatives while building endowment for future generations.

Philanthropy
5
York Foundation

To support educational, cultural, religious and charitable activities.

Philanthropy
6
York University

The mission of york university is the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. a community of faculty, students and staff are committed to academic freedom, social justice, accessible education and collegial self-governance. york university…

Education
7
York County Children's Advocacy Center

Our mission is to reduce trauma for children and families through collaboration in child abuse investigations, prevention education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
8
York Land Trust

York Land Trust is a nonprofit organization that protects and cares for significant natural lands and waterways in the greater York Maine area for the benefit of the community and the environment.

Environment
9
Yorktown Community Schools Foundation Inc

The ycs foundation's mission is to raise and connect funding to benefit the schools and ultimately our community.

Education
10
York Day Nursery Inc

To establish york day early learning as the agency of choice for high quality early childhood education and care to children of working families of all income levels throughout york county, pennsylvania.

Education
11
York Hospital

York hospital is a premier community teaching hospital providing quality, cost-effective health care services strongly supporting excellence in education, and offering essential services without regard for an individual's ability to pay.

Health
12
York General Health Care Services

To be our region's trusted choice for the improvement of health and delivery of quality care throughout life. to be a regional healthcare provider for the citizens of york county and its contiguous counties with readily accessible high…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York Benevolent Association; the most unlike its peers is Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 95 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
28/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $3,025,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganDartmouth College: $2,000,000 · OtherDartmouth CollegeTHE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $1,220,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEPenn State University: $1,200,000 · OtherPenn State UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA: $750,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIAPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $600,468 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $535,000 · Other+58 more: $753,280 · Other+58 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,250,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVAN…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $2,020,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,287,500 · EducationYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIAYSC ACADEMY: $335,000 · EducationYSC ACADEMY+3 more: $171,000 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA: $500,000 · Human ServicesPAPPUS HOUSE: $30,000 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $25,000 · Human Services+4 more: $14,750 · Human ServicesCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF YORK COUNTY: $43,500 · Arts & CultureSTRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSTEAM INTO HISTORY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE: $17,000 · Arts & CultureYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA: $125,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $24,000 · HealthUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthFAMILY FIRST HEALTH CORPORATION: $10,000 · HealthNortheastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc: $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthYORK CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY: $42,500 · Recreation & SportsTENNIS FOR KIDS INC: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$10,083,748Education$6,063,500Human Services$569,750Arts & Culture$132,500Housing & Shelter$126,500Health$66,000Recreation & Sports$45,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,020,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,287,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA: $500,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetYSC ACADEMY: $335,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY: $212,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLOGOS ACADEMY: $150,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF YORK COUNTY: $43,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetYORK CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY: $42,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSILVERBACK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS DANCE AND ATHLETICS: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLEG UP FARM INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPAPPUS HOUSE: $30,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $25,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTEAM INTO HISTORY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE: $17,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYORK ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY FIRST HEALTH CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN STREET YORK INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYORK COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE ROSE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF YORK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetYORK COUNTY HONORS CHOIRS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYORK UNION RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINK POWER: $1,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPIRITRUST LUTHERAN FKA LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHELP FOR ONCOLOGY PROBLEMS AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Powder Mill FoundationYork County Community…The Arthur J and Lee …United Way of York Co…White Rose Leadership…Airie Knipel Harry V …Kinsley FoundationThe Stewart FoundationThe W Dale Brougher F…Memorial Health FundAnne & Philip Glatfel…Bob Hoffman Foundation
Powder Mill FoundationPA68.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Powder Mill Foundation · York County Community Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · United Way of York County · White Rose Leadership Institute · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · Kinsley Foundation · The Stewart Foundation · The W Dale Brougher Foundation · Memorial Health Fund · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Bob Hoffman Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report 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
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.

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 95 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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