Horace B Packer Foundation Inc
Wellsboro, PA · EIN 23-6390932. Reported 130 grants totalling $1,180,068 to 70 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Horace B Packer Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $4,456. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $76,857. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellsboro Foundation | Wellsboro, PA | $89,521 | 15 | 4 | 2025 |
| Tioga County Agricultural Assoc | Wellsboro, PA | $87,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Partners and Progress | Mansfield, PA | $76,857 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hamilton-Gibson Productions | Wellsboro, PA | $70,612 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Mill Cove | Mansfield, PA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Susquehanna Health Foundation | Williamsport, PA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tioga Co Partnership for Comm Health | Wellsboro, PA | $54,512 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Elkland Area Community Library | Elkland, PA | $51,500 | 4 | 3 | 2025 |
| Tioga County Partnership for Community Health | Wellsboro, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tioga County Agricultrural Asso | Wellsboro, PA | $33,921 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Deane Center | Wellsboro, PA | $31,500 | 5 | 3 | 2025 |
| Three Spring Ministries | Morris, PA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Knoxville Food Pantry | Knoxville, PA | $27,500 | 3 | 2 | 2025 |
| American Red Cross | State College, PA | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| American Red Cross-Tioga County | State College, PA | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tioga County Homeless Initiative | Wellsboro, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Deane Center for Performing Arts | Wellsboro, PA | $24,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Pauls Episcopal Church | Wellsboro, PA | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| His Thousand Hills | Wellsboro, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hamilton Gibson Production | Wellsboro, PA | $18,572 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wellsboro Area Education Foundation | Welsboro, PA | $17,375 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Make a Wish Foundation | Scranton, PA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Susquehanna Health Fund | Williamsport, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tioga Grange 1223 | Tioga, PA | $14,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Westfield Youth Baseball | Westfield, PA | $13,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Partners in Progress | Mansfield, PA | $12,900 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Endless Mountians Music Festival | Wellsboro, PA | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Make-a-Wish | Sranton, PA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wellsboro Teen Center | Wellsboro, PA | $10,460 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cowanesque Valley Youth Football Association Inc | Westfield, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Valley Youth Initiative | Elkland, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wellsboro Cemetery | Wellsboro, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wellsboro Riding Club | Wellsboro, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mansfield Chamber of Commerce | Mansfield, PA | $9,895 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Borough of Wellsboro | Wellsboro, PA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Westfield Public Library | Westfield, PA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trinity Lutheran School | Wellsboro, PA | $8,985 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Clymer Twp Vol Hose Co | Sabinsville, PA | $8,412 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wellsboro Shared Home | Wellsboro, PA | $6,960 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cowanesque Riding Club | Wellsboro, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westfield Child Development Ctr | Westfield, PA | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bradford Tioga Head Start | Blossburg, PA | $5,618 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Endless Mountains Music Festival | Wellsboro, PA | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Harbor Counseling | Wellsboro, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Haven of Tioga County | Wellsboro, PA | $4,900 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Westfield Youth Baseball Assoc | Westfield, PA | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Learning Tree of Wellsboro | Wellsboro, PA | $3,335 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wellsboro Comm Concert Assoc | Wellsboro, PA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Blossburg UMC Food Pantry | Blossburg, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Compassion Center of Westfield | Westfield, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Liberty Food Pantry | Liberty, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mansfield Food Pantry | Mansfield, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Millerton UMC | Millerton, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Straight From the Heart Food Pantry | Lawrenceville, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tioga Community Food Bank | Tioga, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wellsboro Food Pantry | Wellsboro, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Penn Regional College | Warren, PA | $2,325 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tioga Co 4HPENN State Univ | Wellsboro, PA | $2,123 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Wellsboro, PA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Knoxville Library Association | Knoxville, PA | $1,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wellsboro Little League | Wellsboro, PA | $1,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Creation Events Ministry | Wellsboro, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wellsboro Comm Concert Association | Wellsboro, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wellsboro Glass Historical Society | Wellsboro, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bradford Head Start | Blossburg, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elkland Little League | Elkland, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Laurel Mountian K9 Search & Rescue | Wellsboro, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Covenant Academy | Mansfield, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Penn State 4H | University Park, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gmeiner Arts & Cultural Center | Wellsboro, PA | $785 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
24 of 70 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 38%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Tioga Co Partnership for Comm Health
completion of rail trail project - Wellsboro Foundation
GROW/Tyoga CCcapital campaign - Susquehanna Health Foundation
help fund mobilehealth unit - His Thousand Hills
upgrade and improve facility - Wellsboro Area Education Foundation
complete constructionproject - Tioga County Agricultural Assoc
resurface areasin fairgrounds
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 60 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $227,030 | $5,009 |
| 2022 | 25 | $269,178 | $4,400 |
| 2023 | 32 | $273,361 | $2,425 |
| 2024 | 29 | $184,852 | $4,000 |
| 2025 | 20 | $225,647 | $6,821 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,456. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Horace B Packer Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 732, Wellsboro, PA, 16901. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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