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Hortulani Foundation at a glance

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Hortulani Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.0MYouth Development$1.0MReligion$602kArts & Culture$180kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kFood & Nutrition$25kHuman Services$25kHealth$15k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$261k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$50,000
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 (FY22–22, $25k) 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%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $25k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 6 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$2.7M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +58% · 34% of their budget
  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2023 · $831k · revenue +55%
  • L
    LANCASTERHISTORYORG
    3× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • FT
    FULTON THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • LP
    LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • CM
    CENTRAL MARKET TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -38%
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
Lancaster General Health Foundation

The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…

Philanthropy
4
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
5
Lancaster County Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
6
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
7
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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8
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
9
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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10
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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11
Lancaster County Foundation

To support the activities and programs of the lancaster county community foundation, whose mission is "to embolden extraordinary community by investing in people and ideas that will shape the future of lancaster county."

Human Services
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 Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is The Children Deserve a Chance 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATI…LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $830,600 · EducationLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $49,700 · EducationLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARYST JAMES EPISOCPAL CHURCH: $322,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISOCPAL CHURCHST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $280,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCHWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $160,000 · OtherWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY+2 more: $32,500 · OtherLANCASTERHISTORYORG: $130,000 · Arts & CultureFULTON THEATRE COMPANY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLANCASTER TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13,366 · Public Safety & DisasterYMCA OF THE ROSES: $24,845 · Human ServicesCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $7,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,000,000Education$880,300Other$794,500Arts & Culture$180,000Public Safety & Disaster$33,366Human Services$32,345

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $830,600 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetLANCASTERHISTORYORG: $130,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFULTON THEATRE COMPANY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $49,700 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL MARKET TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $24,845 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANCASTER COMMUNITY SAFETY COALITION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLANCASTER TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13,366 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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…High FoundationDodge Family Foundati…Thomas a and Georgina…Fulton Family Foundat…Ferree FoundationClark Associates Char…Willis and Elsie Shen…Paul and Marian Gerha…Tecumseh Milestone Fo…Gooding Group Foundat…The Steinman Foundati…
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · High Foundation · Dodge Family Foundation · Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Paul and Marian Gerhart Charitable Fund · Tecumseh Milestone Foundation · Gooding Group Foundation · The Steinman 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 Hortulani Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hortulani Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 14 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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