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Anne B Sweigart Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Anne B Sweigart Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$590kArts & Culture$461kHuman Services$360kReligion$275kRecreation & Sports$169kHealth$160kHousing & Shelter$146kPublic Safety & Disaster$121kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
REAL LIFE COMM SERVICES$10,000
LITITZ RECREATION CENTER$10,000
EPHRATA RECREATION CENTER$10,000
GRETNA THEATRE$10,000
LINCOLN CEMETERY ASSOC OF LANCASTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
MOUNT GRETNA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$7,500
EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES$5,000
AARON'S ACRES$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Arc of the United States: $2k → 14%KEYSTONE PET ENHANCED THERAPY SERVICES: $13k → 9%KEYSTONE PET ENHANCED THERAPY SERVICES: $5k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $5k → 9%KEYSTONE PET ENHANCED THERAPY SERVICES: $5k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $5k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $5k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $5k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $5k → 9%KEYSTONE PET ENHANCED THERAPY SERVICES: $4k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $3k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $3k → 9%EXCENTIA HUMAN SERVICES: $2k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $2k → 9%EXCENTIA HUMAN SERVICES: $2k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER INC: $23k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER INC: $23k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER INC: $23k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER INC: $20k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER INC: $15k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $15k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $15k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $12k → 9%LITITZ REC CENTER: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 70 repeat orgs$254k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
42

Total granted

$2.5M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+10%

Still filing today

46%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EA
    EPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +154%
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +123%
  • ER
    EPHRATA RECREATION CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION CLOISTER POST #429
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -9%
  • E
    EPAC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • GP
    GRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lancaster Township Fire Department

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Penryn Fire Company 1 Inc

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
3
East Petersburg Fire Company No 1

To prevent, fight and extinguish destructive fires in order to safeguard the borough of east petersburg, lanc. co., pa and its surrounding communities

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Shippenville-Elk Twp Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting, rescue and other emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

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6
Landisburg Fire Company

Maintain fire and emergency equipment to provide continued protection for all persons in spring township, landisburg boro, and surrounding area

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Lawrence Park Volunteer Fire Department

Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Wilpen Fire Co of Ligonier Township

Provide fire protection and rescue services to the community

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Eagleswood Fire Company No 1 Inc

Provide full fire protection and related emergency service primarily to the residents of eagleswood township.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Seelyville Fire Company

Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Port Matilda Fire Company Inc

The port matilda fire company provides fire rescue and emergency services to area residents it is a local volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Fleetwood Fire Company

Protection of property and lives in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ephrata Area Rehab Services; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
35/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES: $172,500 · OtherEPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICESEPHRATA AREA REHAB SERVICES (EARS): $100,000 · OtherEPHRATA AREA REHAB SERVICES (EARS)HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE COCALICO: $97,500 · OtherHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE COCALICOEPHRATA RECREATION CENTER: $85,500 · OtherLITITZ WARWICK COMMUNITY CHEST: $82,000 · OtherAMER LEGION CLOISTER POST 429: $72,500 · OtherGRETNA THEATRE: $72,000 · OtherLITITZ RECREATION CENTER: $64,500 · OtherLINCOLN CEMETERY ASSOC OF LANCASTER: $62,500 · OtherREAL LIFE COMM SERVICES: $57,500 · Other+80 more: $856,790 · Other+80 moreRIDER UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYEPHRATA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $45,000 · EducationEPHRATA PUBLIC LIBR…+6 more: $35,000 · Education+6 moreGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $145,500 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMA…AARON'S ACRES: $32,000 · Human ServicesAARON'S A…KEYSTONE PET-ENHANCED THERAPY SERVICES: $26,500 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE …LITITZ COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT GRETNA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $62,500 · Arts & CultureEPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES: $40,000 · Arts & CultureEPHRATA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $37,500 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEPHRATA AREA REHAB SERVICES: $60,000 · EmploymentGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BRIDGE YOUTH CENTER INC: $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH COUNCIL INC: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentTNT YOUTH MINISTRY: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIVEPOINTVILLE FIRE COMPANY: $9,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBRICKERVILLE FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $9,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWEST EARL FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $9,000 · Public Safety & DisasterADAMSTOWN FIRE COMPANY: $8,500 · Public Safety & DisasterSMOKESTOWN FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $4,500 · Public Safety & DisasterMARTINDALE FIRE COMPANY: $4,500 · Public Safety & DisasterREAMSTOWN FIRE COMPANY: $4,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,723,290Education$480,000Human Services$220,000Arts & Culture$165,000Employment$60,000Youth Development$57,000Public Safety & Disaster$49,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES: $172,500 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $145,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetEPHRATA RECREATION CENTER: $85,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNT GRETNA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $62,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetEPHRATA AREA REHAB SERVICES: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLITITZ PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $48,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetEPHRATA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $45,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWOODCREST RETREAT ASSOCIATION: $41,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetEPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES: $40,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetLITITZ HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetEPHRATA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $37,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetAARON'S ACRES: $32,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetKEYSTONE PET-ENHANCED THERAPY SERVICES: $26,500 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH CENTER INC: $19,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetGRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHISTORIC SCHAEFFERSTOWN INC: $11,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLITITZ COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOENECK VETERANS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH COUNCIL INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIVEPOINTVILLE FIRE COMPANY: $9,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBRICKERVILLE FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $9,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWEST EARL FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $9,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetADAMSTOWN FIRE COMPANY: $8,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBRUNNERVILLE FIRE COMPANY: $8,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSCHOENECK FIRE COMPANY: $8,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetDURLACH AND MT AIRY FIRE COMPANY: $6,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLititz Fire Company #1: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHEIM HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOLLAND AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetEASTERN LANCASTER COUNTY LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPHRATA FARMERS DAY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSMOKESTOWN FIRE COMPANY NO 1: $4,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMARTINDALE FIRE COMPANY: $4,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetREAMSTOWN FIRE COMPANY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTNT YOUTH MINISTRY: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PAI CORPORATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERVANT STAGE COMPANY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetELANCO FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds LITITZ HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lancaster County Comm…Clark Associates Char…William and Jemima Br…Gooding Group Foundat…The Steinman Foundati…Robert C Wenger Chari…Ferree FoundationAshland FoundationThe Abigail L Longene…Richard S & Ann B Bar…Pryor E & Arlene R Ne…United Way of Lancast…
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA50.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Anne B Sweigart Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne B Sweigart Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Anne B Sweigart Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Anne B Sweigart Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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