· Private foundation
The W Dale Brougher 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 $10k17 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $401k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $699k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUARIUM | $1,000,000 |
| YMCA OF YORK COUNTY | $615,000 |
| CRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION | $500,000 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE | $280,000 |
| LOGOS ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| ST JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $176,000 |
| SPCA OF YORK COUNTY | $139,000 |
| STRAND CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS | $134,000 |
| PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $100,000 |
| MARGARET E MOUL HOME | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS OF PENNSYLVANIA | $50,000 |
| VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SERVANTS INC | $36,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $27,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 4 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LALOGOS ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +75%
- SPSTRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +18%
- SPSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TPThe Peddie Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +42%
- SPST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $60k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
The york county bar association is a non-profit professional membership association of attorneys and judges. it exists to serve the needs of the lawyers, judges and public of york county. the association and its members have dedicated…
To support educational, cultural, religious and charitable activities.
York Land Trust is a nonprofit organization that protects and cares for significant natural lands and waterways in the greater York Maine area for the benefit of the community and the environment.
Leading the York County region to become the premier place to live, work, and conduct business in the Carolinas.
With an unrelenting focus on academic excellence, the york academy regional charter school's mission is to challenge students in a diverse learning environment that opens doors for growth, opportunity and global citizenship.
Our mission is to reduce trauma for children and families through collaboration in child abuse investigations, prevention education, and advocacy.
The york county convention and visitors bureau, inc. (the bureau) plans and promotes programs designed to stimulate and increase the volume of tourist, visitor, vacation and convention business within york county, pennsylvania.
The mission of york university is the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. a community of faculty, students and staff are committed to academic freedom, social justice, accessible education and collegial self-governance. york university…
The mission of the society is to enrich the area's quality of life by providing and facilitating educational, entertainment, recreational, agricultural, commercial and social activities for the benefit of the residents and businesses of…
To be our region's trusted choice for the improvement of health and delivery of quality care throughout life. to be a regional healthcare provider for the citizens of york county and its contiguous counties with readily accessible high…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 129 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 LOGOS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS INC ↗
- Who funds STEAM INTO HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Peddie School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Human Life Services Inc ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 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: York County Community Foundation · Powder Mill Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · The Graham Foundation · Kinsley Foundation · The Stewart Foundation · White Rose Leadership Institute · Russell E & Eleanor B Horn Foundati · United Way of York County · York County Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc · Memorial Health Fund
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 W Dale Brougher 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice 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.
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