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Fulton Family Foundation at a glance

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Fulton Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$119k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$121kYouth Development$102kEducation$73kHuman Services$49kArts & Culture$49kScience & Tech$45kEnvironment$45kFood & Nutrition$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC$10,000
LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
LANCHISTORYORG$10,000
LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER$10,000
BENCH MARK PROGRAM$10,000
SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT$5,000
LANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION$5,000
LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST$5,000
HOMESTEAD VILLAGE$5,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER$5,000
LANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
AARON'S ACRES$5,000
LCDS$5,000
LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB$5,000
LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AARON'S ACRES: $5k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $5k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $4k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $3k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $7k → 9%HOMESTEAD VILLAGE: $5k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $3k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $3k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE INC: $3k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $3k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE INC: $3k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $700 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$575k · 30 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
8

Total granted

$575k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+22%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LS
    LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +1%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +92%
  • BM
    BENCH MARK PROGRAM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • FT
    FULTON THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry

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…

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2
Lancaster Emergency Medical Services Association

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.

Health
3
The Arc of Lancaster County

Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.

Health
4
Central Market Trust

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…

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5
Lancaster County Council of the Arts

To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.

Arts & Culture
6
Lancaster County Community Foundation

We embolden extraordinary community by investing in people and ideas that will shape the future of lancaster county.

Philanthropy
7
The New School of Lancaster Dba New School Montessori

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…

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8
Library System of Lancaster County

Provide resources, services, and expertise in a collaborative manner to and with the member libraries in order to effectively serve our communities

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9
Lancaster General Health

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.

Health
10
Lancaster Preschool

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…

Education
11
Montessori Academy of Lancaster

Provide creative and stimulating intellectual, artistic, and developmental experiences for pre-school and grade school children.

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12
Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce Inc

Support member businesses through education and promotion, and support the quality of life in lancaster county through promoting compatible economic development.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster General Health Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC: $42,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INCBENCH MARK PROGRAM: $32,100 · OtherBENCH MARK PROGRAMLANCASTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25,000 · OtherLANCASTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC: $23,000 · OtherSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRICLANCHISTORYORG: $20,000 · OtherLANCHISTORYORGLCDS: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,200 · OtherHOSPICE & DEVELOPMENT CARE: $10,000 · OtherGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER: $25,600 · OtherGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTERLANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION: $25,000 · OtherLANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITIONLANCASTER COUNTY PROJECT FOR THE NE: $18,000 · OtherLANCASTER COUNTY PROJECT FOR THE NELANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB: $13,000 · Other+9 more: $36,400 · Other+9 moreLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $18,370 · EducationLANCASTER COUN…LANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $18,250 · EducationLANCASTER EDUC…THE JANUS SCHOOL: $15,676 · EducationTHE JANUS SCHO…LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 · EducationLANCASTER PUBL…THE EDIBLE CLASSROOM: $11,600 · EducationTHE EDIBLE CLA…LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER SCIE…LANCASTERHISTORYORG: $15,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTERHISTO…FULTON THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFULTON THEATRE…Music for Everyone: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMusic for Ever…DEMUTH FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER…AARON'S ACRES: $16,500 · Human ServicesMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSES: $7,786 · Human ServicesHOMESTEAD VILLAGE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $3,000 · Human ServicesLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · EnvironmentLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT: $22,500 · HealthGAUDENZIA INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$299,300Education$78,896Arts & Culture$78,500Philanthropy$50,000Human Services$45,286Environment$45,000Health$27,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $45,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC: $42,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBENCH MARK PROGRAM: $32,100 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER: $25,600 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $18,370 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $18,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY PROJECT FOR THE NE: $18,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetAARON'S ACRES: $16,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JANUS SCHOOL: $15,676 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTERHISTORYORG: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EDIBLE CLASSROOM: $11,600 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFULTON THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $7,786 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMESTEAD VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic for Everyone: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEMUTH FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER'S ECONOMIC ACTION FOR DOWNTOWN'S SUCCESS: $2,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTERHISTORYORG ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
  • Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EDIBLE CLASSROOM ↗
  • Who funds FULTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
  • Who funds HOMESTEAD VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMON WHEEL ↗
  • Who funds Music for Everyone ↗
  • Who funds GAUDENZIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DEMUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHOICES HEALTHCARE ↗

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 Comm…The Steinman Foundati…High FoundationClark Associates Char…Willis and Elsie Shen…Ferree FoundationThomas a and Georgina…United Way of Lancast…City Limits FoundationGinko FoundationThe Abigail L Longene…Ppl Foundation
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA62.3× affinity28 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 · 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fulton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fulton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fulton Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fulton Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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