· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JUNIATA VALLEY COUNCIL BSA | $5,000 |
| BPS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PETS COME FIRST | $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 |
| CENTRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CENTRE SAFE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +59% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CENTRE COUNTY PA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE SAFE ↗
- Who funds BELLEFONTE LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Poole Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Poole Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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