· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of THE JOHN AND BARBARA PAGANA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PIUS X CATHOLIC CHURCH | $7,960 |
| ST GREGORY THE GREAT CATHOLIC CH | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,125 |
| YMCA | $1,940 |
| A COMMUNITY CLINC | $1,050 |
| MOSTLY MUTTS DOG SHELTER | $620 |
| SUSQ VALLEY UNITED WAY | $500 |
| RCAA HEALTH SERVICES | $500 |
| FOR GOOD CAMPAIGN (SALVATION ARMY) | $500 |
| ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH | $500 |
| UNBOUND | $432 |
| EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSP | $300 |
| FATHER FRED SACRED HEART | $250 |
| MOUNT SAINT MARY UNIVERSITY | $250 |
| SELINSGROVE AREA SCHOOL BOOSTERS | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YOYMCA OF THE ROSES9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +117%
- ACA COMMUNITY CLINIC6× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +8%
- ECEVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL5× · 2019–2025 · $1k · revenue +22%
Funded once
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAYone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -16%- TSTHE SERVICE DOG INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $550
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $528
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
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To provide quality, cost-effective, accessible, and affordable healthcare to the community.
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…
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.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Giving Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 74 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds A COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RCAA HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARADISUS DEI INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.
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
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 John and Barbara Pagana 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.
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Real Life Children's Ranch Inc — 0% of income from government
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.