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Franklin & Marshall College
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE is a residential college dedicated to excellence in undergraduate liberal arts education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $140,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $63,939,166 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,799,166 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE | $120,000 |
| FULTON THEATRE | $10,000 |
| LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Grants abroad, by region — $11M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS · STUDENT LOANS
Stated purpose: STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS · STUDENT LOANS
Stated purpose: STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS · STUDENT LOANS
Stated purpose: STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS · STUDENT LOANS
Stated purpose: STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS · STUDENT LOANS
Stated purpose: STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS · STUDENT LOANS
Stated purpose: STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS · STUDENT LOANS
Stated purpose: STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS · STUDENT LOANS
Stated purpose: STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 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 FY2025, 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
- LCLANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +97%
- LGLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +30%
- LGLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MCMILLPORT CONSERVANCYone grant, 2017 · $85k · revenue -37% · 61% of their budget
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INCone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -12%
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
Support member businesses through education and promotion, and support the quality of life in lancaster county through promoting compatible economic development.
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 organization performs the daily management of the lancaster central market in a manner that facilitates the economic health of standholders' businesses while remaining consistent with traditional market and historic preservation…
To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.
We embolden extraordinary community by investing in people and ideas that will shape the future of lancaster county.
To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…
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…
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
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.
The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster General Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Millport Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 LANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FULTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MILLPORT CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CTC TEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISPUS ATTUCKS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE LANCASTER CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION ↗
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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Franklin & Marshall College 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.