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Clark Associates Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
296
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$6.9MEnvironment$5.0MHuman Services$3.6MReligion$3.5MHousing & Shelter$3.2MHealth$2.8MYouth Development$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 296 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k220 grants · $416k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.1M
$2,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION$1,200,000
LANCASTER CONSERVANCY$851,000
SCHREIBER PEDIATRIC REHAB CENTER$250,000
STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION$250,000
LANCASTER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$250,000
CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION$250,000
Individual grant recipient$247,267
LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF CHURCHES$215,000
COLUMBIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$120,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$112,000
MANHEIM TOWNSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION$110,000
PEQUEA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$110,000
WARWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$110,000
BETHANY SLAVIC CHURCH$110,000
CONESTOGA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$110,000
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 (FY17–24, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $183k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $40k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $35k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $33k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $30k → 9%GOOD NEIGHBORS: $25k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $30k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $20k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $20k → 9%OUR HOME OF HOPE INC: $44k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $38k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $37k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $26k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $24k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 9%EXCENTIA HUMAN SERVICES: $120k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $45k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $37k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $35k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $34k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $33k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $32k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $30k → 9%CALVARY FELLOWSHIP HOMES: $30k → 9%CALVARY FELLOWSHIP HOMES: $30k → 9%CALVARY FELLOWSHIP HOMES: $30k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $28k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $28k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $20k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $20k → 9%CHRIST'S HOME: $20k → 9%CHRIST'S HOME: $20k → 9%WILLOW VALLEY COMMUNITIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%WILLOW VALLEY COMMUNITIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $1.2M → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $146k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $113k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $112k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $97k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $83k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $54k → 9%LANCASTER EARLY EDUCATION CENTER: $25k → 9%LANCASTER EARLY EDUCATION CENTER: $20k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $20k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $50k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $25k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $20k → 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

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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 307 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

307 repeat relationships — 177 still active in FY2024, 130 since wound down; 118 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

307
325

Total granted

$30M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+20%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $959k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +137%
  • SC
    SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +101%
  • WS
    WATER STREET MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREENBRIAR CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • TP
    THE PAI CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -6%
  • LC
    LANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -44%

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
Mom's House Inc of Lancaster

Empower single parents and their children to set and attain educational goals through parent support and mentorship, early childhood education and safe affordable childcare.

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2
The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…

Human Services
3
Lancaster Country Day School

The mission of lancaster country day school is to empower students to explore their passions, find purpose, and become the best versions of themselves.

Education
4
Montco Anti-Hunger Network

By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.

Food & Nutrition
5
Luthercare

"luthercare reflects christ's love through service to others." our mission is to enhance the quality of life through creative senior living opportunities, family life through quality child care and early learning centers, appropriate…

Human Services
6
Landis Quality Living

To provide housing with services for adults to age in place and thrive in community.

Housing & Shelter
7
Life'swork of Western Pennsylvania

We partner with people with disabilities, people with other barriers, young adults, children, and families to pursue their hopes and dreams through strengthening workplace abilities, building life skills, and developing meaningful…

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8
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
9
United Methodist Home for Children Inc

Provide a safe and caring program for youth that inspires hope for the future and stresses personal responsibility within an atmosphere of respect for everyone.

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10
Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh

To provide a continuum of care for homeless individuals that leads toward self-sufficiency.

Human Services
11
Lawrence County Association for Responsible Care

To advocate for and provide quality services to people with developmental disabilities and ensure their health, safety and welfare while promoting personal choice and growth.

Human Services
12
Pocono Health System

We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Conestoga Creek Foundation. 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 backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportSenior Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public Library OperationsCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development CentersCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …School Parent OrganizationsEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Mentoring ProgramsLocal History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Dance Arts OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Food PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Addiction Recovery ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Social ServicesChristian Youth CampsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportDomestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…
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 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr13%15%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr17%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%37%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr17%38%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%6/423
the rest of the field
9%
7,125/77,739

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

355 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. 355 of the 753 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
97
Early backer (in before they grew)
343/355
Grantees still filing
244/355
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AGAPE — $1,628,250 · OtherAGAPEELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY — $1,125,000 · OtherELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMYBOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $522,389 · OtherMENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE — $482,563 · OtherWARWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $540,000 · OtherANCHOR LANCASTER — $470,880 · Other+114 more — $7,528,619 · Other+114 moreLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY — $4,979,500 · EnvironmentLANCASTER COUNTY …MANHEIM TOWNSHIP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $780,000 · EducationMANHEIM TOWNSH…CONESTOGA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $690,523 · EducationCONESTOGA VALL…THE PEQUEA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $560,500 · EducationTHE PEQUEA VAL…THE COLUMBIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $340,000 · EducationTHE COLUMBIA E…MESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $172,300 · EducationSPARTAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION — $165,000 · EducationTHE JANUS SCHOOL — $160,500 · Education+17 more — $1,171,532 · Education+17 moreWATER STREET MINISTRIES — $1,819,585 · Human ServicesWATER STREET…GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES — $391,250 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARIT…POWER PACKS PROJECT — $200,400 · Human ServicesPOWER PACKS …CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $175,000 · Human ServicesAARON'S ACRES — $151,000 · Human ServicesTHE PAI CORPORATION — $120,000 · Human Services+21 more — $671,995 · Human Services+21 moreCROSSNET MINISTRIES — $1,700,500 · ReligionCROSSNET MIN…HORIZON INITIATIVE — $709,000 · ReligionHORIZON INIT…LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB — $411,665 · ReligionLANCASTER CO…LANCASTER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $360,000 · ReligionLANCASTER CO…+7 more — $180,833 · Religion+7 moreSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT — $2,008,075 · HealthLANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC — $101,195 · HealthJEFF MUSSER FOUNDATION — $85,000 · Health+4 more — $111,500 · HealthALLEGRO THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF LANCASTER — $361,899 · Arts & CultureFULTON THEATRE COMPANY — $241,385 · Arts & CultureMusic for Everyone — $148,400 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER — $128,236 · Arts & CultureLONG'S PARK AMPHITHEATER FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL DISCIPLES — $75,000 · Arts & CultureKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureEPHRATA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $72,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $39,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$12,297,701Environment$4,979,500Education$4,040,355Human Services$3,529,230Religion$3,361,998Health$2,305,770Arts & Culture$1,221,420

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY — $4,979,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT — $2,008,075 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES — $1,819,585 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetCROSSNET MINISTRIES — $1,700,500 over 2y, 39% of budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY — $1,125,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetMANHEIM TOWNSHIP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $780,000 over 8y, 35% of budgetHORIZON INITIATIVE — $709,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetCONESTOGA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $690,523 over 7y, 44% of budgetTHE PEQUEA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $560,500 over 6y, 82% of budgetWARWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $540,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetANCHOR LANCASTER — $470,880 over 8y, 19% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB — $411,665 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES — $391,250 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetALLEGRO THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF LANCASTER — $361,899 over 6y, 44% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $360,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE COLUMBIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $340,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS — $300,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFULTON THEATRE COMPANY — $241,385 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetADVANTAGE LANCASTER — $206,800 over 8y, 18% of budgetPOWER PACKS PROJECT — $200,400 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $185,700 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetCONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $175,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $172,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION — $165,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetTHE JANUS SCHOOL — $160,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetJ127 Ministry Inc — $151,030 over 5y, 11% of budgetAARON'S ACRES — $151,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetMusic for Everyone — $148,400 over 8y, 12% of budgetLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER — $128,236 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetTHE PAI CORPORATION — $120,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY — $120,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC — $113,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $111,311 over 8y, 13% of budgetCALVARY FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC — $110,700 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE — $107,593 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $104,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC — $101,195 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION — $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWELSH MOUNTAIN HOME — $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBENCH MARK PROGRAM — $99,400 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH STAR INITIATIVE — $95,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetTHE COMPLETE PLAYER CHARITY LTD — $92,939 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING — $90,605 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEFF MUSSER FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 3y, 13% 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.

  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CROSSNET MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MANHEIM TOWNSHIP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HORIZON INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds CONESTOGA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PEQUEA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WARWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANCHOR LANCASTER ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGRO THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF LANCASTER ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE COLUMBIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FULTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds ADVANTAGE LANCASTER ↗
  • Who funds POWER PACKS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SPARTAN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JANUS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds J127 Ministry 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.

Lancaster County Comm…The Steinman Foundati…High FoundationFerree FoundationUnited Way of Lancast…Ppl FoundationGooding Group Foundat…Willis and Elsie Shen…The Donald B and Doro…The Abigail L Longene…Pryor E & Arlene R Ne…Ashland Foundation
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA175.6× affinity120 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 · Ferree Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · Ppl Foundation · Gooding Group Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Ashland 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 Clark Associates Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Project Plase Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
  • The Complete Player Charity Ltd — 6% of income from government
  • Arts Every Day Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Clark Associates Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Clark Associates Charitable Foundation 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 753 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home