· Private foundation
Wenger Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $264k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $246k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEBANON VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH | $161,557 |
| OAKS COMMUNITY CHURCH - GRAEVE DAF | $84,155 |
| ON FIRE YOUTH MINISTRIES | $49,140 |
| COMMUNITY HOMES OF LEBANON CTY | $37,500 |
| JUBILEE MINISTRIES | $36,176 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL | $34,288 |
| COBYS FAMILY SERVICES | $31,665 |
| FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY | $31,543 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,200 |
| LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $13,000 |
| WORSHIP CENTER - WITMER DAF | $11,355 |
| PAID THRU DAF'S UNDER 1000 | $8,870 |
| BRETHREN DISASTER RELIEF | $7,400 |
| BEREAN BIBLE CHURCH | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,760 |
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 (FY19–24, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% 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.
41 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 20 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k 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
- OYON-FIRE YOUTH MINISTRIES6× · 2019–2024 · $273k · revenue +86%
- CFCOBYS FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +55%
- FCFRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY6× · 2019–2024 · $142k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHAR GIVING 066196-221one grant, 2022 · $215k
- FCFIDELITY CHAR GIVING Z97-000442one grant, 2022 · $215k
- TSTHE SIGNATRY - ALBERT DAFone grant, 2023 · $185k
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.
The lebanon valley brethren home, an outreach ministry of the church of the brethren, is committed to providing independent living housing, high-quality health care, and supportive services for elderly persons in an attitude of love and…
Support residents of laurel view village through fundraisers.
The organization exists to glorify God by evangelizing, encouraging, and equipping individuals for active ministry through Bible Adventure, leadership training, and camping programs.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
Civil justice for those in need, their homes secured, families protected, and finances fortified.
Provides religious retreats to men, women, married couples, students, religious and lay organizations.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To create innovative opportunities to enrich the lives of older adults
Our mission is to serve the health and wellness needs of the uninsured who live in lebanon county, pa.
Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…
Provide a safe and caring program for youth that inspires hope for the future and stresses personal responsibility within an atmosphere of respect for everyone.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lebanon County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is The Singing Contractors. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 130 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 ON-FIRE YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COBYS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMES OF LEBANON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN DISASTER RELIEF AUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds LEBANON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MYERSTOWN VITALITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Sonje Ayiti Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: Burkholder Family Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Shady Maple Foundation · Eden Bridge Foundation · North Foundation Inc · Anabaptist Foundation · Laurie & Dave Foundation · Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · One Master Foundation · The Bishop 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 Wenger Foundation Inc 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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