· Private foundation
Waynesboro Beneficial Fund Association
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| St Marys Episocpal Church | $6,124 |
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 (FY19–22, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.
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; $0 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
- AHANTIETAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC5× · 2018–2022 · $38k · revenue +16%
- WHWAYNESBORO HOSPITAL6× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +72%
- WEWAYNESBORO EARLY LEARNING CENTER2× · 2018–2020 · $25k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $271k
- WTWaynesboro Theatreone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TITHE INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +45%
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.
Public display of historical objects and buildings. Park with walking trails.
To provide the community of waynesboro a viable place where its history can be preserved and celebrated for generations to come.
To collect and preserve historical items
To preserve and share local history
Provide Firefighting and ambulance service to Wesleville Borough
Public lending library
To study, educate, collect and preserve historical records and artifacts for the town of Westborough, MA
Preserve County History
The wayne county historical society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of wayne county.
Preservation and promotion of the history, traditions, and culture of westmoreland county, virginia and preservation of historical records of the county.
To record, preserve and display historical records and artifacts from the Village of Wayne, and to support other publicly-supported historical societies located in the geographical area known as Fox Valley in Illinois.
To promote interest in, and study of the historic background of the boro of Pottstown and vicinity, and to collect historic documents and records in order to preserve local history and the history of Pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waynesboro Community & Human Services in and the most unlike its peers is Waynesboro Community Theatre Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 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 ANTIETAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBORO HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBORO EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Green Hill Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds Waynesboro Community Concert Assoc ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBORO NEW HOPE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAINSTREET WAYNESBORO INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
- Who funds Pen Mar Youth League Inc ↗
- Who funds American Legion Post 15 ↗
- Who funds Waynesboro Community Theatre Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Waynesboro Historical Society ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Meehan-Holtz Charity Ta · Lora Jean Greenawalt and Gilbert Lee Greenawa · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Waynesboro Beneficial Fund Association 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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