· Private foundation
The Poole Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN STATE | $53,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $20,000 |
| GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| ALEXIS DE TOCQUIEVILLE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF PA | $10,000 |
| PETS COME FIRST | $5,000 |
| BPS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JUNIATA VALLEY COUNCIL BSA | $5,000 |
| STRAWBERRY FIELDS | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| KARLI SHORT BETTER TOMORROW FOUNDAT | $1,555 |
| THE ARC OF CENTRE COUNTY PA INC | $1,030 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $1,000 |
| CENTRE COUNTY PAWS | $1,000 |
| CENTRE SAFE | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +60% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +73%
- GHGEISINGER HEALTH6× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +235%
- SFSTRAWBERRY FIELDS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- GHGESINGER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- MNMOUNT NITTANY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $2k
- BLBELLEFONTE LITTLE LEAGUEone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +10%
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.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
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.
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
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.
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…
C-net is organized to maintain and operated, on a not-for-profit basis, a government and education access network to inform the public on subjects useful and beneficial to the community via cable television channels and internet…
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
Outpatient medical services
The chester county community foundation connects people who care with the causes that matter, so their philanthropy makes a difference now and forever.
Our vision is a community that embraces specialized care at the end of life with the same importance that is given at the beginning of life. our guiding principles are service - to make a difference in the lives of our patients/families,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centre Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 50 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT NITTANY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PETS COME FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE FOR EVERYONE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CENTRE COUNTY PA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLEFONTE LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CENTRE SAFE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BOB PERKS CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
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: Centre Foundation Inc · The Hamer Foundation · The Blake and Linda Gall Family Foundation · The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau · The Louis E Silvi Foundation · Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr · Centre County United Way · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Poole 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.