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The John and Barbara Pagana 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.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$250
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,960
Organizations funded a year
14 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$34k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$23k20%
FY202422$20k27%
FY202325$18k28%
FY202220$21k20%
FY202122$22k59%
FY202014$9k36%
FY201924$18k50%
FY201821$14k86%
87% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$60kHuman Services$58kHealth$6kEducation$5kInternational$4kPhilanthropy$2kCommunity Improvement$2kAnimals$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MA
OR
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYMCA of the Roses: $31,659 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUnbound: $3,172 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetA Community Clinic: $2,640 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetEvangelical Community Hospital: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSusquehanna Valley United Way: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeisinger Health: $710 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetParadisus Dei Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Youth Ministries: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMount Saint Mary's University Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMostly Mutts Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLock Haven University Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPga Foundation Inc: $170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn R Kauffman Jr Public Library: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dynamic Catholic Institute: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSusquehanna University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcussion Legacy Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReal Life Children's Ranch Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Susquehanna Opportunities Inc: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Poor: $35 over 1y, 0.0% 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 22.

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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.

Community Giving FoundationPA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Giving Foundation · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Degenstein Charitable Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · William J and Ann M Roll Foundation · Sunbury Northumberland Commtr · 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · S Luther Savidge Trust · Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · Guyer 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.

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About The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation

How much does The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation give?
The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $23,237 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Human Services (38%), Health (4%).
Who are The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YMCA of the Roses ($32k), Unbound ($3k), A Community Clinic ($3k).
Does The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John and Barbara Pagana 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 John and Barbara Pagana Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Giving Foundation, The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn, Degenstein Charitable Foundation.
Where is The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation based?
The John and Barbara Pagana Foundation is based in FL.

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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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