Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Gamber Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $281k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Gamber Foundation 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 | 22 | $281k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $268k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $264k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $267k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $267k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $248k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $241k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $247k | 19% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development | $218,750 | 9 | 1% |
| Lancaster Day Care Center | $140,000 | 9 | 1% |
| United Disabilities Services | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic | $123,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Water Street Ministries | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Milagro House Inc | $72,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc | $72,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friendship Community | $68,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Bridges at Worthmore Inc | $57,050 | 9 | 19% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development | $218,750 | 9 | 1% |
| Lancaster Day Care Center | $140,000 | 9 | 1% |
| United Disabilities Services | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic | $123,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Water Street Ministries | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Milagro House Inc | $72,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc | $72,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friendship Community | $68,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Bridges at Worthmore Inc | $57,050 | 9 | 19% |
| Aaron's Acres | $49,200 | 9 | 1% |
| Keystone Pet-Enhanced Therapy Services | $48,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Tenfold | $48,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Lancaster County | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mom's House Inc of Lancaster | $25,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Loft Community Partnership | $17,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Children Deserve a Chance Foundation | $17,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Visioncorps | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope Served Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Occupational Development Center | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($966k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gamber Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn · United Way of Lancaster County · Universal Leaf Foundation · High Foundation · Kalas Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Ashland Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gamber Foundation
- How much does Gamber Foundation give?
- Gamber Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $280,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gamber Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (17%).
- Who are Gamber Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development ($219k), Lancaster Day Care Center ($140k), United Disabilities Services ($135k).
- Does Gamber Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gamber Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gamber Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, The Steinman Foundation, The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation.
- Where is Gamber Foundation based?
- Gamber Foundation is based in PA.
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