How much does City Limits Foundation give?

City Limits Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $725,188 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.

What does City Limits Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Youth Development (25%), Health (8%).

Who are City Limits Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Lancaster Dollars for Higher Learning ($127k), Plant the Seed of Learning Inc ($90k), Lancaster County Food Hub ($61k).

Does City Limits Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does City Limits Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as City Limits Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, The Steinman Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation.

Where is City Limits Foundation based?

City Limits Foundation is based in PA.

Foundation Dossiers

Pennsylvania · Private foundation

City Limits 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.

$725k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 45
Grants FY2024: 25
Organizations funded FY2023: 72%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $106,088
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 25; FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $4.6M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 72% of the organizations City Limits Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	45	$725k	56%
FY2023	25	$333k	72%
FY2022	11	$189k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$388kYouth Development$310kHealth$94kHousing & Shelter$77kFood & Nutrition$71kHuman Services$59kRecreation & Sports$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lancaster Dollars for Higher Learning	$127,200	3	13%
Plant the Seed of Learning Inc	$90,000	2	n/a
Lancaster County Food Hub	$61,000	3	2%
Patients R Waiting Inc	$52,000	2	7%
Lancaster Country Day School	$50,000	2	0%
Lancaster Day Care Center	$48,500	2	1%
Tenfold	$40,000	3	0%
Community First Fund	$40,000	1	0%
Bright Side Opportunities Corporati	$29,500	1	3%
Bench Mark Program	$25,000	1	2%

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All grantees of City Limits Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lancaster Dollars for Higher Learning	$127,200	3	13%
Plant the Seed of Learning Inc	$90,000	2	n/a
Lancaster County Food Hub	$61,000	3	2%
Patients R Waiting Inc	$52,000	2	7%
Lancaster Country Day School	$50,000	2	0%
Lancaster Day Care Center	$48,500	2	1%
Tenfold	$40,000	3	0%
Community First Fund	$40,000	1	0%
Bright Side Opportunities Corporati	$29,500	1	3%
Bench Mark Program	$25,000	1	2%
La Academiathe Partnership Charter School	$25,000	1	0%
Jeff Musser Foundation	$20,000	2	6%
Lancaster Public Library	$20,000	2	0%
Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Girls on the Run of Lancaster	$20,000	1	3%
Ebenezer Baptist Church	$17,400	1	n/a
Dive Incorporated	$15,000	2	n/a
The Common Wheel	$15,000	1	2%
Touchstone Foundation	$11,000	2	3%
Lancaster Recreation Commission	$11,000	2	n/a
Shoot for Success Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Power Packs Project	$10,000	2	0%
Chestnut Housing Corporation	$10,000	1	1%
Now I Can Foundation Northeast	$10,000	1	1%
The Janus School	$10,000	1	0%
National Ambucs Inc Altoona Chapter	$6,000	2	5%
Lancaster Education Foundation	$6,000	2	1%
Hand Up Partners	$5,000	1	9%
Lancaster Science Center	$5,000	1	0%
The Clinic for Special Children Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Powered to Move	$4,000	2	1%
Justice & Mercy Inc	$2,800	2	3%
Wheatland Presbyterian Church	$2,500	1	n/a
Bro2go LLC	$2,500	1	1%
Bible2school	$2,300	2	0%
Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation	$2,000	1	0%
South Ann Concerned Neighbors Inc	$2,000	2	0%
New Love in Christ Church	$2,000	1	n/a
Lancaster County Conservancy	$1,000	1	0%
Fulton Theatre Company	$850	2	0%
Lancaster County Sports Hall of Fame	$500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($410k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget City Limits Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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 Community FoundationPA63.4× affinity29 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 · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · High Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · Fulton Family Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Ferree Foundation · High Foundation · Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Northwest Charitable 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.

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About City Limits Foundation

How much does City Limits Foundation give?: City Limits Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $725,188 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does City Limits Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Youth Development (25%), Health (8%).
Who are City Limits Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Lancaster Dollars for Higher Learning ($127k), Plant the Seed of Learning Inc ($90k), Lancaster County Food Hub ($61k).
Does City Limits Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does City Limits Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as City Limits Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, The Steinman Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation.
Where is City Limits Foundation based?: City Limits Foundation is based in PA.