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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 125 grants below total $430,496 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $594,128 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $163,632 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised 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
Spanish American Civic Assoc for Equality$100,000
United Way of Lancaster County$100,000
Bright Side Opportunities Center$25,000
Lancaster Science Center$25,000
Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic$25,000
Lancaster Count Community Foundation$25,000
Lighthouse Counseling & Family Res Ctr$10,000
Habitat for Humanity Lake County$10,000
Jackson County Community Foundation$10,000
Kitchen Possible Inc$10,000
Mid-Ohio Food Bank$10,000
United Way of Central Georgia$7,000
United Way of the Ozarks$7,000
United Way of Central Ohio$7,000
United Way of West Florida$7,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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. Your 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

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
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OH
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NJ
CA
MO
WV
VA
GA
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FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$550k · 27 repeat orgs$706k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 74 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%
+11%

Still filing today

93%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k 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

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

  • 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%

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

04Your field

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.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersDance Arts OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsPublic Library OperationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Construc…School District FoundationsCommunity FoundationsUnited Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr15%34%35–55yr17%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr17%27%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/96
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,066

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.

04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 141 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/90
Grantees still filing
67/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 OHIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherLANCASTER CO COMMUNITY FNDTN — $25,000 · OtherLancaster Count Community Foundation — $25,000 · OtherNational Merit Scholarship Corporation — $21,642 · OtherBRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI — $25,000 · Other+89 more — $186,109 · Other+89 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 WEST FLORIDA INC — $14,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA 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 MIDNIGHT MISSION — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE SIDEWALK PROJECT — $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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 WEST FLORIDA INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center — $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJCCF INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKitchen Possible Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMarshfield Senior Center — $10,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILDING MACON INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainbow House Childrens Resource Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMACON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING MATTERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SIDEWALK PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER CITY POLICE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetMARSHFIELD SCHOOL OF WEAVING INC — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOOVES OF HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD BALLET INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY GOLDEN RETRIEVER — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRASBURG-HEISLER LIBRARY — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Armstrong World Industries Fndtn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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

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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How do I get to Armstrong World Industries Fndtn?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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