· Private foundation
Anne B Sweigart Charitable Foundation
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 $10k40 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIDER UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| EPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER INC | $23,000 |
| EPHRATA AREA REHAB SERVICES (EARS) | $20,000 |
| LITITZ WARWICK COMMUNITY CHEST | $17,500 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE COCALICO | $15,000 |
| LINCOLN CEMETERY ASSOC OF LANCASTER | $10,000 |
| REAL LIFE COMM SERVICES | $10,000 |
| EPHRATA RECREATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| GRETNA THEATRE | $10,000 |
| LITITZ RECREATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| MOUNT GRETNA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA CANINE SEARCH & RESCUE | $5,000 |
| EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY | $5,000 |
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, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- EAEPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +154%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +123%
- EREPHRATA RECREATION CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LEGION CLOISTER POST #429one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -9%
- THTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COCALICO VALLEone grant, 2018 · $13k
- EEPACone grant, 2021 · $13k
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 mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
Volunteer fire company
To prevent, fight and extinguish destructive fires in order to safeguard the borough of east petersburg, lanc. co., pa and its surrounding communities
Fire fighting, rescue and other emergency services
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Maintain fire and emergency equipment to provide continued protection for all persons in spring township, landisburg boro, and surrounding area
Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.
Provide fire protection and rescue services to the community
Provide full fire protection and related emergency service primarily to the residents of eagleswood township.
Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.
The port matilda fire company provides fire rescue and emergency services to area residents it is a local volunteer fire company
Protection of property and lives in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ephrata Area Rehab Services and the most unlike its peers is Elanco Foundation 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 44 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 121 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 RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOUNT GRETNA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA AREA REHAB SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LITITZ PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WOODCREST RETREAT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LITITZ HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds AARON'S ACRES ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE PET-ENHANCED THERAPY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION CLOISTER POST #429 ↗
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 · William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable Foundation · Gooding Group Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Robert C Wenger Charitable Trust · Ferree Foundation · Ashland Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · United Way of Lancaster County
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 Anne B Sweigart 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.
- Rider University — 1% 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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