· Private foundation
Fulton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BENCH MARK PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC | $10,000 |
| LANCHISTORYORG | $10,000 |
| THE COMMON WHEEL | $5,000 |
| SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| LANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION | $5,000 |
| LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| LCDS | $5,000 |
| HOMESTEAD VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER | $5,000 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB | $5,000 |
| LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| AARON'S ACRES | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- LSLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +1%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +92%
- BMBENCH MARK PROGRAM4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FTFULTON THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +22%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the chamber has 5 strategic priorities: public policy, workforce, business…
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.
Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.
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.
The mission is to facilitate the unfolding of each child's unique potential through an outstanding montessori education that enables a child to meet future challenges, and that encourages a love of learning, independent thinking, social…
Provide resources, services, and expertise in a collaborative manner to and with the member libraries in order to effectively serve our communities
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.
Lancaster preschool believes that the preschool is an extension of the home environment where children can learn new skills, interact with teachers and peers, and experience hands-on learning opportunities through developmentally…
Provide creative and stimulating intellectual, artistic, and developmental experiences for pre-school and grade school children.
Support member businesses through education and promotion, and support the quality of life in lancaster county through promoting compatible economic development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster General Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Milagro House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 41 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 GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC ↗
- Who funds BENCH MARK PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION ↗
- Who funds SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY PROJECT FOR THE NE ↗
- Who funds AARON'S ACRES ↗
- Who funds THE JANUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LANCASTERHISTORYORG ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds THE EDIBLE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds FULTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds THE COMMON WHEEL ↗
- Who funds Music for Everyone ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEAD VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GAUDENZIA INC ↗
- Who funds DEMUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOICES HEALTHCARE ↗
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 · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · City Limits Foundation · Ginko Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Ppl 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 Fulton Family 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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