Pennsylvania · Public charity
Franklin & Marshall College
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE is a residential college dedicated to excellence in undergraduate liberal arts education. Its aims are to inspire in young people of high promise and diverse backgrounds a genuine and enduring love for learning, to teach them to read, write, and think critically, to instill in them the capacity for both…
- $64M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $140k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $887M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Franklin & Marshall College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $140k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $138k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $138k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $148k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $143k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $179k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $189k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $193k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster City Alliance | $1,200,000 | 9 | 22% |
| Fulton Theatre Company | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Millport Conservancy | $84,500 | 1 | 61% |
| Lancaster General Hospital | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Lancaster General Health Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Action Partnership of Lancaster County Inc | $29,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ctc Ten Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Crispus Attucks Community Center Inc | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster City Alliance | $1,200,000 | 9 | 22% |
| Fulton Theatre Company | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Millport Conservancy | $84,500 | 1 | 61% |
| Lancaster General Hospital | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Lancaster General Health Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Action Partnership of Lancaster County Inc | $29,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ctc Ten Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Crispus Attucks Community Center Inc | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Foundation of the Lancaster Chamber | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Steppingstone Scholars Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lancaster Community Safety Coalition | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Franklin & Marshall College supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Franklin & Marshall College
- How much does Franklin & Marshall College give?
- Franklin & Marshall College reported 3 itemized grants totaling $140,000, out of $63,939,166 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Franklin & Marshall College fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (79%), Arts & Culture (6%), Environment (5%).
- Who are Franklin & Marshall College's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lancaster City Alliance ($1.2M), Fulton Theatre Company ($100k), Millport Conservancy ($85k).
- Does Franklin & Marshall College fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Franklin & Marshall College?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, The Steinman Foundation, High Foundation.
- Where is Franklin & Marshall College based?
- Franklin & Marshall College is based in PA.
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