· Private foundation
Bill and Janet Lasko Foundation
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.
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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES | $165,218 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $75,000 |
| PARKESBURG POINT YOUTH CENTER | $75,000 |
| THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER | $40,000 |
| WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD | $25,000 |
| OXFORD LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER | $18,000 |
| BELIEVE AND ACHIEVE FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
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, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CYCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $490k · revenue +56%
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE5× · 2017–2024 · $246k · revenue +120%
- YOYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE5× · 2017–2021 · $188k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CYCOMMUNITY YOUTH & WOMEN'S ALLIANCEone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -37%
- MCMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +139%
- CPCOATESVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +11%
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.
See schedule o for form 990, part iii, line 1 - organization's mission
Port chester carver center helps our community thrive through programs that nourish, educate, and empower.
The greater wyoming valley area ymca (gwva ymca) is a volunteer led public charity that includes men, women and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. our mission is to put christian principles into practice through…
The young men's christian association of delaware county d/b/a the community ymca of eastern delaware county ("the community ymca or "the organization") was organized on december 14, 1948 under the laws of pennsylvania as a nonprofit…
The parkersburg ymca is a charitable community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, income, races, and religions. we are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families, and strong…
THE MISSION OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY IS TO REDUCE domestic violence by supporting survivors and advancing prevention strategies.
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
The ymca of centre county is a charitable, non-profit organization that provides opportunities to all individuals and families in the community by putting high moral values and principles into practice through facilities, programs,…
To share the good news of the gospel of jesus christ with unchurched young people i the central pennsylvania communities.
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Youth & Women's Alliance and the most unlike its peers is The Parkesburg Point. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 18 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 CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE ↗
- Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PARKESBURG POINT ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE & ACHIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH & WOMEN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COATESVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Chester County Family Academy Inc ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · The Alliance for Health Equity · United Way of Chester County Inc · Chester County Food Bank · Connelly Foundation · Stewart Huston Charitable Trust · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Justamere Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · The Philadelphia 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 Bill and Janet Lasko 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.
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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