· Private foundation
William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of WILLIAM AND JEMIMA BROSSMAN CHARITA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROSSMAN FAMILY | $350,300 |
| FULTON THEATRE | $40,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY CAREER | $15,000 |
| MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| PA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $15,000 |
| HACC FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PENN MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COCALICO VALL | $5,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH COUNCIL | $4,250 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES | $3,000 |
| LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB | $3,000 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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 — 20 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- LVLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $116k · revenue +26%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +59%
- LLANCASTERHISTORYORG5× · 2017–2021 · $63k · revenue +203%
Funded once
- PSPERNN STATE HEALTH MILTON HERSHEY Mone grant, 2023 · $15k
- GIGAUDENZIA INCone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +18%
- GSGIRLS SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PAone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Our mission is success through lifelong learning and learning for life. our vision is for adults to have the skills to transform their lives, sustain their families and strengthen their communities.
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.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…
The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
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…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
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.
The good samaritan hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare that improves the overall health of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster County Food Hub and the most unlike its peers is Elizabethtown College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 8% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 63 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 FULTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PENNON ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LANCASTERHISTORYORG ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI ↗
- Who funds PHILHAVEN ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LITITZ COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHOICES HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ADAMSTOWN AREA LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REAL LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GAUDENZIA INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Gooding Group Foundation · Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn · Ferree Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Wellspan Health · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Kalas 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 William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable 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 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.