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High Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
181
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$20MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MHealth$715kCommunity Improvement$559kPhilanthropy$551kEnvironment$538kOther$0
02FY2024 · 181 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 181 grants below total $5,627,863, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,804,139 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,176,276 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k96 grants · $190k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $3.3M
  • $250k+3 grants · $950k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$307M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LancasterHistory$450,000
Little Conestoga Creek Foundation$250,000
Church World Service$250,000
Elizabethtown College$200,000
Factory Ministries$200,000
Tenfold$200,000
PA College of Art and Design$200,000
Lancaster Redevelopment Fund Inc$200,000
Lancaster City Alliance$183,000
Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity$150,000
Children Deserve a Chance Foundation$125,000
Lancaster Bible College$125,000
Tec Centro Workforce Network$100,000
Thaddeus Stevens Foundation$100,000
Penn State Hershey Medical Center$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SARASOTA INC: $10k → 9%TEN DIRECTIONS INC: $10k → 7%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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 76 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

76 repeat relationships: 72 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
46

Total granted

$5.0M
$803k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+19%

Still filing today

79%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • L
    LANCASTERHISTORYORG
    2× · 2022–2024 · $950k · revenue +111%
  • LA
    LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $292k · revenue +45%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $282k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • PS
    Penn State University
    one grant, 2022 · $105k
  • LP
    LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $101k · revenue +16%
  • LE
    LANCASTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $58k · revenue +32%
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 Science Center

To inspire curiosity, creativity, and confidence by fostering an inclusive environment for hands-on stem exploration. we actively seek to make our facility and educational programs accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
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
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
5
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
6
Lancaster Law Foundation

We promote equal access to justice for all in lancaster county by funding public interest law projects, delivering pro bono service, and educating the public on civic and legal issues.

Crime & Legal
7
Lancaster Equity Inc

Lancaster equity coordinates efforts to advance communities where everyone has an opportunity to thrive, whether that be through neighborhood revitalization, living wage work, entrepreneurship, or safe and affordable housing.

Housing & Shelter
8
Central Penn Business Group On Health

Central business group on health advocates for the appropriate balance between cost and quality of employee healthcare in lancaster county by providing education on healthcare issues, promoting cooperation among payers, providers and…

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9
Chester County Community Foundation

The chester county community foundation connects people who care with the causes that matter, so their philanthropy makes a difference now and forever.

Philanthropy
10
Lawrence County Economic Development Corp

To transform lives by serving as a creative force that promotes excellence in leadership, coordination, and orderly business development

—
11
United Way of Lancaster County Inc

To positively impact lives by mobilizing people and resources in lancaster county with an emphasis on healthy communities, youth opportunities, financial security and community resiliency by partnering with organizations and community…

Philanthropy
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Little Conestoga Creek Foundation. 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

128 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. 128 of the 188 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
126/128
Grantees still filing
84/128
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $292,000 · OtherLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCLITTLE CONESTOGA CREEK FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherLITTLE CONESTOGA CREEK FOUNDATIONTENFOLD: $200,700 · OtherPA College of Art and Design: $200,000 · OtherCITY OF LANCASTER PA: $180,000 · OtherPartners for Environmental Stewardship: $192,000 · OtherTHE FACTORY MINISTRIES: $275,750 · OtherTHE FACTORY MINISTRIESCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $254,750 · OtherCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC+105 more: $2,676,346 · Other+105 moreLANCASTERHISTORYORG: $950,400 · Arts & CultureLANCASTERHISTOR…UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $138,750 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF L…DEMUTH FOUNDATION: $56,800 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $59,100 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE: $323,000 · Community ImprovementLANCASTER…LANCASTER REDEVELOPMENT FUND: $200,000 · Community ImprovementLANCASTER…SPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR EQUALITY INC: $127,600 · Community ImprovementSPANISH A…SUSQUEHANNA HERITAGE CORPORATION: $50,200 · Community ImprovementSUSQUEHAN…ASSETS LANCASTER: $30,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $300 · Community ImprovementELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $200,000 · EducationELIZABETH…LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $125,000 · EducationLANCASTER…THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION: $105,000 · EducationTHADDEUS …LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $101,100 · EducationLANCASTER…THE JANUS SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationTHE JANUS…HOMEFRONT INC: $32,500 · EducationLANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26,200 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $25,000 · Education+11 more: $58,550 · Education+11 moreTHE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $282,100 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $142,500 · PhilanthropyPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $36,750 · PhilanthropyLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $11,750 · PhilanthropyUNION COMMUNITY CARE: $175,000 · HealthLANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC: $92,300 · HealthLANCASTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $57,500 · HealthA WOMAN'S CONCERN INC: $40,000 · HealthSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT: $37,200 · HealthPenn State Health: $25,000 · HealthUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthARCH STREET CENTER INC: $23,000 · Health+3 more: $17,200 · HealthWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $140,300 · Human ServicesPOWER PACKS PROJECT: $57,400 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSES: $50,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $46,870 · Human ServicesMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $45,400 · Human ServicesCASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $43,600 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $25,000 · Human Services+10 more: $61,400 · Human Services
Other$4,521,546Arts & Culture$1,205,050Community Improvement$731,100Education$723,350Philanthropy$498,100Health$492,200Human Services$469,970

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 budgetLANCASTERHISTORYORG: $950,400 over 2y, 16% of budgetLANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE: $323,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $292,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $282,100 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE FACTORY MINISTRIES: $275,750 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $254,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE CONESTOGA CREEK FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTENFOLD: $200,700 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANCASTER REDEVELOPMENT FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPartners for Environmental Stewardship: $192,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetUNION COMMUNITY CARE: $175,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $142,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $140,300 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $138,750 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR EQUALITY INC: $127,600 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC: $120,200 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $120,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $101,100 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTEC CENTRO WORKFORCE NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC: $92,300 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI: $89,600 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCENTRAL MARKET TRUST: $80,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA: $61,300 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLANCASTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $57,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOWER PACKS PROJECT: $57,400 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDEMUTH FOUNDATION: $56,800 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER: $56,583 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB: $53,400 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBENCH MARK PROGRAM: $51,750 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA HERITAGE CORPORATION: $50,200 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE JANUS SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREGENALL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE CLINIC FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYORK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $46,870 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $45,400 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER: $45,350 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $43,600 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $41,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA WOMAN'S CONCERN INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT: $37,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $36,750 over 2y, 5.8% 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.

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…Clark Associates Char…Ferree FoundationPpl FoundationUnited Way of Lancast…The Donald B and Doro…High FoundationPryor E & Arlene R Ne…Fulton Family Foundat…Willis and Elsie Shen…The Abigail L Longene…
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA136.7× affinity72 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 · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Ppl Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · High Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Fulton Family Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial 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 High Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from High Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to High Foundation?

Find your warmest path to High 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 188 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $14M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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