· Private foundation
Arras Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k17 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS | $120,000 |
| KERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE (KARE) | $110,000 |
| GRASP - GREAT FALLS REFERRAL AND ASSISTANCE | $64,500 |
| A FATHER'S WAY - LANCASTER FATHERHOOD PROJECT | $55,000 |
| HOPE IN LANCASTER INC | $49,919 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS | $31,497 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,445 |
| KERSHAW COMMUNITY PARK COUNCIL INC | $10,454 |
| EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF USC LANCASTER | $10,000 |
| UPPER PALMETTO YMCA | $5,040 |
| EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF USC LANCASTER | $5,000 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS | $3,000 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Arras Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HIHOPE in Lancaster Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $868k · revenue +10% · 29% of their budget
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS5× · 2018–2022 · $456k · revenue +91% · 51% of their budget
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $321k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INCone grant, 2020 · $260k · revenue -58%
- KAKERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $115k · revenue +416%
- HAHOUSING AUTHORITY OF LANCASTER COUNTY INCone grant, 2018 · $82k
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.
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.
The best healthcare, for the lowest cost, for the most people.
Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.
Support member businesses through education and promotion, and support the quality of life in lancaster county through promoting compatible economic development.
The mission of the lancaster county council on aging is to provide a system of coordinated and comprehensive services to enable older persons of lancaster county to continue to maintain their independence.
Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.
To provide comprehensive, skillful, cost effective emergency and non- emergency health care services to the lancaster community while continuing to evolve with changing health care needs.
Enhance the economic well-being of lancaster county by bringing together business resources, capital and government for selective, measurable and sustainable growth.
To positively impact lives by mobilizing people and resources in lancaster county with an emphasis on healthy communities, youth opportunities, financial security and community resiliency by partnering with organizations and community…
To inspire curiosity, creativity, and confidence by fostering an inclusive environment for hands-on stem exploration. we actively seek to make our facility and educational programs accessible to all.
The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the chamber has 5 strategic priorities: public policy, workforce, business…
Central business group on health advocates for the appropriate balance between cost and quality of employee healthcare in lancaster county by providing education on healthcare issues, promoting cooperation among payers, providers and…
CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HOPE in Lancaster Inc ↗
- Who funds A FATHERS WAY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW COMMUNITY PARK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Services Inc ↗
- Who funds York County Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Inc ↗
- Who funds UPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds G R A S P ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS PARKER TRACK CLUB ↗
- Who funds Educational Foundation of USCL Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLDENCARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE N AROUND TRC ↗
- Who funds Lancaster County Literacy Council ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN TRI COUNTY SC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Springs Close Foundation Inc · Nutramax Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · John T Stevens Foundation · Comporium Foundation Inc · Chester Healthcare Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of Chester County In · United Way of York County SC · Community Partnership Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arras Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arras Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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