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Gamber 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHREIBER PEDIATRIC REHAB CENTER | $30,000 |
| UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES | $30,000 |
| WATER STREET RESCUE MINISTRIES | $26,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANCASTER | $25,000 |
| LANCASTER EARLY EDUCATION CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE LANCASTER SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $15,000 |
| THE GATE HOUSE | $12,500 |
| TABOR COMMUNITY SERVICESTENFOLD | $12,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $12,000 |
| MILAGRO HOUSE | $10,000 |
| LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| EXCENTIA | $9,500 |
| AARON'S ACRES | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $492k) 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.
35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- SCSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT9× · 2017–2025 · $219k · revenue +101%
- UDUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +53%
- LCLANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- TLTRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTERone grant, 2021 · $12k
- JGJOHN GABLE 1ST 2NDone grant, 2018 · $5k
- JMJOHN M CLARK 5TH 6THone grant, 2018 · $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.
To advocate for and provide quality services to people with developmental disabilities and ensure their health, safety and welfare while promoting personal choice and growth.
Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.
Individuals with developmental disabilities will live within a community that sustains them and benefits from their participation. mainstay life services will be regarded as the region's provider of choice for individuals and families…
The arc of centre county embodies and protects the human rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and practices person-centered planning which actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the…
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
Provide creative and stimulating intellectual, artistic, and developmental experiences for pre-school and grade school children.
To provide superior service to children and adults with developmental disabilities.
Linwood creates the possibility of extraordinary lives for children and adults living with autism and related developmental disabilities by providing education, vocational training, residential support, and employment opportunities.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
To serve and advocate for people with intellectual disabilities and autism.
Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.
To provide services and facilities for people whose capabilities and needs vary widely. lcc strives to make the lives of people more independent, healthful, meaningful and secure through development of innovative programs delivered with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Street Ministries 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.
20 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. 20 of the 50 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 SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES AT WORTHMORE INC ↗
- Who funds AARON'S ACRES ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE PET-ENHANCED THERAPY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TENFOLD ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF LANCASTER ↗
- Who funds THE LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISIONCORPS ↗
- Who funds HOPE SERVED INC ↗
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 · 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
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 Gamber 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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