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Armstrong World Industries Fndtn at a glance

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Armstrong World Industries Fndtn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$594k
Granted FY2023
125
Grants FY2023
24
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$544kCommunity Improvement$170kHealth$150kYouth Development$127kHousing & Shelter$59kHuman Services$51kScience & Tech$50kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2023 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 125 grants below total $430,496, the rows itemized in this filing. The $594,128 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $163,632 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k114 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$125
Median grant
24
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Lancaster County$100,000
Spanish American Civic Assoc for Equality$100,000
Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic$25,000
Lancaster Science Center$25,000
Lancaster Count Community Foundation$25,000
Bright Side Opportunities Center$25,000
Habitat for Humanity Lake County$10,000
Jackson County Community Foundation$10,000
Kitchen Possible Inc$10,000
Mid-Ohio Food Bank$10,000
Lighthouse Counseling & Family Res Ctr$10,000
United Way of Central Ohio$7,000
United Way of the Ozarks$7,000
United Way of West Florida$7,000
United Way of Central Georgia$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REBUILDING MACON: $3k → 23%REBUILDING MACON: $3k → 23%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5k → 14%LANCASTER EARLY EDUCATION CENTER: $50k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $3k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $3k → 9%WATER STREET MISSION: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
WV
VA
GA
TX
FL
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$550k · 27 repeat orgs$705k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 73 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
38

Total granted

$550k
$472k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

93%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY
    2× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +21%
  • LC
    LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $125k · revenue +2%
  • LS
    LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER
    2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER CO
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL OH
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • LD
    LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +2%
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 General Health Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Lancaster General Health

Provides managerial and financial support to its controlled organizations and is also responsible for undertaking activities designed to advance the general health of the community.

Health
6
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
8
Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc

Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.

Health
9
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
10
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
11
The Lancaster Lgbtq Center

Advocating for the health, rights, and visibility of the lgbtqia+ community of lancaster county.

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12
Lutheran Services Florida Inc

Lutheran services florida brings god's healing, hope, and help to people in need in the name of jesus christ.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Strasburg-Heisler Library. 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

90 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. 90 of the 140 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/90
Grantees still filing
67/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER CO: $200,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL OH: $100,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL OHLancaster Count Community Foundation: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherLANCASTER CO COMMUNITY FNDTN: $25,000 · OtherNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $21,642 · OtherBRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI: $25,000 · Other+88 more: $186,109 · Other+88 moreUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $200,275 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF LANCASTE…LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $50,305 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER SCIENCE CENT…+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC: $125,000 · HealthLANCASTER C…+11 more: $3,135 · HealthSPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR EQUALITY INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC: $21,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $14,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $197 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesJCCF INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesREBUILDING MACON INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5,000 · Human Services+8 more: $1,172 · Human ServicesCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Animals+6 more: $1,127 · Animals
Other$607,751Arts & Culture$251,580Health$128,135Community Improvement$100,000Philanthropy$88,197Human Services$83,672Animals$31,127

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $200,275 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR EQUALITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $50,305 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $21,642 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKitchen Possible Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarshfield Senior Center: $10,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetJCCF INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMACON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRainbow House Childrens Resource Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING MACON INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SIDEWALK PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING MATTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN NYC INC: $1,047 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER CITY POLICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLANCASTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUSQUEHANNA CHORALE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPENNON ORGANIZATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $485 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEMPFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRASBURG-HEISLER LIBRARY: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARGE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGENESEE VALLEY OUTDOOR LEARNING CTR: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…The Steinman Foundati…High FoundationClark Associates Char…Ppl FoundationThe George a and Tina…The Abigail L Longene…Pryor E & Arlene R Ne…Ferree FoundationUnited Way of Lancast…Dart Foundation fka S…Pennsylvania Automoti…
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA59.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The George a and Tina K Georges Charitable Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Ferree Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation

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 Armstrong World Industries Fndtn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Armstrong World Industries Fndtn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Manna Food Bank Inc: 8% of income from government
  • United Way of West Florida Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Armstrong World Industries Fndtn 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 140 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $692k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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