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Houser Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $21,000 |
| CORNWALL MANOR | $17,186 |
| SAINT CECILIA CHURCH | $12,500 |
| LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY | $5,150 |
| HISTORIC SCHAEFFERSTOWN | $4,461 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $3,300 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $500 |
| LEBANON RESCUE MISSION | $200 |
| SALVATION ARMY - LEBANON | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
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 (FY21–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- HSHISTORIC SCHAEFFERSTOWN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue -31% · 63% of their budget
- CMCORNWALL MANOR3× · 2021–2025 · $98k · revenue +6%
- TLTHE LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue -14%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEART OF JESUSone grant, 2023 · $82k
- SWSWATARA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $42k · revenue 0%
- MOMUSEUM OF THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE - GILMORE CAR MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania
The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.
Preserving the history and cultural artifacts from the Western Pennsylvania town of Leechburg.
To serve as a steward for the natural and cultural communities in the upper Penns Creek Watershed. We seek to preserve and Honor the agricultural roots of Penns Valley by protecting and conserving its waters, farmland, forests and rural…
To preserve the legacy of the Ligonier Valley Rail Road, conserve its vestiges, collect its relics & memorabilia, and educate the public about railroad history in the Ligonier Valley.
Preserve the history of railroads that served the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania area through the construction and public exhibition of a model replica of the railroad operations and communities they serve
To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public
To conserve and steward lands and waters of Westmoreland County that harbor ecological, cultural or recreational qualities to offer a healthier and more sustainable future for all.
To protect the quality & beauty of the wissahickon creek & to enhance life in the watershed.
To make historical information about wyoming county, pa available to the public
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lebanon County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Wenger Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 HISTORIC SCHAEFFERSTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds CORNWALL MANOR ↗
- Who funds SWATARA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE LEBANON VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust ↗
- Who funds WENGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Association for Cancer Research Inc ↗
- Who funds LEBANON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ON-FIRE YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LEBANON VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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.
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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 Houser Family 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.
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.
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