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The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$580k
Granted FY2026still arriving
28
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$795kHealth$555kHuman Services$338kArts & Culture$315kYouth Development$310kHousing & Shelter$308kReligion$211kPhilanthropy$99kOther$0
02FY2026 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $434k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $131k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOWER DAUPHIN FALCON FOUNDATION$81,000
PENN STATE HEALTH$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$45,000
JOSHUA GROUP$40,000
PENN STATE HARRISBURG$35,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF$35,000
THE ARC OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIES$32,400
KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES$30,000
THEATRE OF HARRISBURG$25,000
THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG$25,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$25,000
VISTA ADULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION$20,000
CATRA$15,000
UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION$15,000
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK$11,100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $6k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCED COMMUNITIES: $10k → 12%DAUPHIN COUNTY CASA: $15k → 12%Hospice of Central PA: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 40 repeat orgs$442k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2026, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
32

Total granted

$3.3M
$411k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+6%

Still filing today

63%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DC
    DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
    3× · 2020–2022 · $335k · revenue +25%
  • VO
    VETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $308k · revenue +53%
  • TJ
    THE JOSHUA GROUP
    7× · 2020–2026 · $280k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOMELAND CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -20%
  • SH
    SOUTH HANOVER TWP PARKS &
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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3
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
4
Upmc Williamsport

UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…

Health
5
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…

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6
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center

Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…

Health
7
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center

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…

Health
8
Chambersburg Hospital

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.

Health
9
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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10
Highlands Hospital

Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…

Health
11
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
12
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dauphin County Library System; the most unlike its peers is Steelton Community Cats. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 77 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
27/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $199,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYBETHESDA MISSION: $181,000 · OtherBETHESDA MISSIONTHE ARC OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIES: $129,400 · OtherTHE ARC OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIESPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $101,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYArc of Cumberland & Perry County: $80,000 · OtherArc of Cumberland & Perry CountyYWCA OF GREATER HARRIS-: $62,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF: $60,000 · Other+40 more: $638,348 · Other+40 moreDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $335,000 · EducationDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $280,000 · EducationTHE JOSHUA GROUPLOWER DAUPHIN FALCON FOUNDATIONINC: $231,000 · EducationLOWER DAUPHIN FALCON FOUNDATIONINCTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG: $135,000 · EducationTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURGTHE VISTA FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationTHE VISTA FOUNDATIONDUKE UNIVERSITY: $85,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY+4 more: $25,000 · EducationKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $105,500 · HealthKEYSTONE HU…Penn State Health: $100,000 · HealthPenn State …HOMELAND CENTER: $50,000 · HealthHOMELAND CE…VISTA ADULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION: $40,000 · HealthVISTA ADULT…UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthUNITED DISA…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUG…UPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthVETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA: $308,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS …SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $147,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $26,000 · Arts & CultureOpen Stage of Harrisburg: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the West Shore Theatre Inc: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $85,000 · PhilanthropyNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $45,500 · Human ServicesDAUPHIN COUNTY CASA: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$1,451,748Education$1,181,000Health$375,500Public Benefit$308,000Arts & Culture$257,000Philanthropy$85,000Human Services$80,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $335,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetVETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA: $308,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $280,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetLOWER DAUPHIN FALCON FOUNDATIONINC: $231,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM: $147,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetTHE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG: $135,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIES: $129,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $105,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPenn State Health: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VISTA FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOMELAND CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $45,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVISTA ADULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY: $30,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEG UP FARM INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $26,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTRI-COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOpen Stage of Harrisburg: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $21,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERTOWNES PA USA INC: $21,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Falcon Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the West Shore Theatre Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY CASA: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLEBANON COMMUNITY THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSteelton Community Cats: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS OUTREACH OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSHUA GROUP ↗
  • Who funds LOWER DAUPHIN FALCON FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds SUSQUEHANNA ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF HARRISBURG ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF CUMBERLAND AND PERRY COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Penn State Health ↗
  • Who funds THE VISTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
  • Who funds HOMELAND CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds VISTA ADULT SERVICES ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY DAUPHIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds LEG UP FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Open Stage of Harrisburg ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds RIVERTOWNES PA USA INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA ↗
  • Who funds The Falcon Foundation ↗

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.

The Foundation for En…United Way of the Cap…McCormick Family Fdn …John Crain Kunkel Fou…Joseph T and Helen M …Hall FoundationAnne & Philip Glatfel…The Donald B and Doro…Franklin H and Ruth L…Alexander and Jane Bo…Lawrence L & Julia Z …Schwab-Silfen Foundat…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA49.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Hall Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Franklin H and Ruth L Wells Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Lawrence L & Julia Z Hoverter Charitable Foundation · Schwab-Silfen 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The S Wilson and Grace M Pollock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 77 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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