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The Grimm Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$384k
Granted FY2025still arriving
109
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Religion$846kRecreation & Sports$358kHuman Services$341kHealth$313kPublic Benefit$147kEducation$75kPhilanthropy$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k100 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
$500
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP FREEDOM$81,050
JDSEAM GIVING LLC SER B$64,350
NEW PATH NOW$48,000
OPERATION MILITARY LIFT LLC SER B$34,650
WVFC ENDOWMENT FUND$20,000
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION$20,000
RACING WITH JESUS MINISTRIES$13,000
WAYMART CHURCH$11,100
WAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,100
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FLAG$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WAYMART VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY$4,600
WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$3,100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $250 → 9%THE KINDNESS PROJECT: $100 → 11%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $600 → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND: $250 → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $1k → 13%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $900 → 13%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $450 → 13%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $350 → 13%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $200 → 13%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $200 → 13%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $100 → 13%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $100 → 13%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $100 → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $200 → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $100 → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $100 → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $100 → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER: $500 → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER: $500 → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER: $500 → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER: $500 → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER: $500 → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER: $500 → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER: $500 → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER: $500 → 13%WAYNE COUNTY YMCA: $500 → 13%WAYNE COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS: $150 → 13%WAYNE COUNTY YMCA: $100 → 13%WAYNE COUNTY YMCA: $100 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 139 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

139 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

139
316

Total granted

$2.0M
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+15%

Still filing today

33%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • CF
    CAMP FREEDOM INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $345k · revenue +309%
  • WM
    WAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +142%
  • CM
    Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $72k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • DJ
    DEXTER JOHN ASHELY MEM SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • JW
    JAMES WILSON FUNERAL HOME INC
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wayne Memorial Health System Inc

Wayne memorial health system strives to be the provider of first choice for community health care in wayne, pike, and susquehanna counties, and the greater carbondale and forest city regions of northeast pennsylvania.

Health
2
Wayne Memorial Long Term Care Inc

Wayne woodlands manor is committed to serve its community, patients, families, and co-workers in a tradition of high-quality, cost-effective care dedicated to its core values of compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service. (see…

Health
3
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…

Health
4
Keystone Hospice

Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…

Human Services
5
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center

Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…

Health
6
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
7
The Milton S Hershey Medical Center

Mshmc's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate, culturally responsive and equitable care, educate and trains healthcare…

Health
8
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
9
St Mary Medical Center

We, st. mary medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. as a community of caring people, we are committed to extending and…

Health
10
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center

The mission of penn state health holy spirit medical center is to nurture the healing ministry of the church, supported by education and research. fidelity to the gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we create…

Health
11
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
12
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keystone Rescue Mission Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thinspace Africa. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Youth CampsCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Ymca Youth DevelopmentJewish Community Organizati…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Military Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterDevelopmental Disabilities …Local History MuseumsSenior Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesChristian Missionary Organi…Public Library OperationsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%5%<5yr13%11%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr17%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%58%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr17%4%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr17%3%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.7% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/147
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,015

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.

04the grantee network

114 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 504 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/114
Grantees still filing
70/114
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW PATH NOW — $338,500 · OtherNEW PATH NOWWAYMART CHURCH — $140,900 · OtherWAYMART CHURCHJDSEAM GIVING LLC SER B — $136,800 · OtherJDSEAM GIVING LLC SER BOPERATION MILITARY LIFT LLC SER B — $107,099 · OtherOPERATION MILITARY LIFT LLC SER BCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION — $105,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONRACING WITH JESUS MINISTRIES INC — $104,000 · OtherRACING WITH JESUS MINISTRIES INCCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc — $72,000 · Other+167 more — $582,066 · Other+167 moreCAMP FREEDOM INC — $344,975 · Recreation & SportsCAMP FREEDOM INCWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $180,400 · HealthWAYNE MEMO…PENNSYLVANIA ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE — $19,150 · HealthPENNSYLVAN…+7 more — $13,750 · Health+7 moreWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,700 · PhilanthropyREACH YOUTH GLOBAL — $2,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY — $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER PIKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLE CREEK FOUNDATION LTD — $1,000 · PhilanthropyKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC — $16,536 · Housing & ShelterMissionary Retreat Fellowship — $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY STRATEGIES GROUP — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterWAYMART VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $16,800 · Public Safety & DisasterST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION — $4,100 · Human ServicesHUMAN RESOURCES CENTER INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART — $2,400 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesWayne County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $700 · Human ServicesTHE NISSI PROJECT INC — $500 · Human ServicesST JOSEPHS CENTER — $500 · Human Services
Other$1,586,365Recreation & Sports$344,975Health$213,300Philanthropy$25,200Housing & Shelter$23,036Public Safety & Disaster$16,800Human Services$13,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMP FREEDOM INC — $344,975 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $180,400 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetRACING WITH JESUS MINISTRIES INC — $104,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc — $72,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $24,850 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWAYMART VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $16,800 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC — $16,536 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEP SNO-TRAILS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN — $4,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWayne County Historical Society — $4,400 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetUPPER VALLEY YMCA — $4,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION — $4,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED METHODIST HOMES FOUNDATION UMH NY CORP — $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDORFLINGER SUYDAM WILDLIFE SANCTUARY — $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCES CENTER INC — $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMissionary Retreat Fellowship — $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetENDLESS MOUNTAINS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC — $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY VOA LIVING CENTER INC — $3,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART — $2,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,330 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER PIKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE CREEK FOUNDATION LTD — $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLOVE A CHILD INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY — $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPKD Foundation — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWayne County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED SERVICES HOSPICE LLC — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL COLONY OF MERCY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER — $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 CAMP FREEDOM INC
  • Who funds WAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RACING WITH JESUS MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc
  • Who funds WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
  • Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE
  • Who funds WAYMART VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
  • Who funds KEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC

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.

The Honesdale National Bank FoundationPA62.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Allone Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · The Hawk Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · The Van Horn Foundation · Hickory Hill Foundation · Margaret Briggs 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 Grimm 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc24% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
  • Love a Child Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
29report 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 504 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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