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Joseph L K Snyder

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$708k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$35,670
Largest grant, FY2025
$178,352
Organizations funded a year
13 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Joseph L K Snyder funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$708k0%
FY202419$643k11%
FY202318$682k39%
FY202218$792k0%
FY202118$664k6%
FY202013$710k15%
FY201915$822k20%
FY201813$789k0%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$2.1MEducation$2.0MHealth$1.5MScience & Tech$379kPhilanthropy$354kHuman Services$225kArts & Culture$140kYouth Development$86kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Franklin & Marshall College$1,706,30890%
Lancaster Theological Seminary$1,158,7628n/a
The Chemists' Club$378,723967%
American Cancer Society Inc$342,26090%
Wills Eye Foundation Inc$313,10975%
American Foundation for the Blind Inc$266,53961%
Moravian University$210,28620%
Muhlenberg Foundation Inc$182,68896%
United Family and Childrens Society$178,89674%
United Way of Greater Union County % Julienne Cherry$171,13191%
Show all 22 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Joseph L K Snyder supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFranklin & Marshall College: $1,706,308 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chemists' Club: $378,723 over 9y, 67% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $342,260 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWills Eye Foundation Inc: $313,109 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetAmerican Foundation for the Blind Inc: $266,539 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMoravian University: $210,286 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuhlenberg Foundation Inc: $182,688 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetUnited Family and Childrens Society: $178,896 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Union County % Julienne Cherry: $171,131 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetAlzheimer's New Jersey Inc: $159,613 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetDucret School of the Arts: $140,318 over 6y, 15% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn: $71,967 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Street Youth Center Inc: $52,868 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Inc: $39,674 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlainfield City Union of the King's Daughters King's Daughters Day School: $35,008 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $32,643 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc: $32,643 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $32,643 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEl Centro Hispanoamericano: $32,643 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetAmerican Parkinson Disease Assoc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Plainfield Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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Find your warmest path to Joseph L K Snyder 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.

About Joseph L K Snyder

How much does Joseph L K Snyder give?
Joseph L K Snyder reported 14 grants totaling $707,578 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Joseph L K Snyder fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (28%), Health (22%).
Who are Joseph L K Snyder's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Franklin & Marshall College ($1.7M), Lancaster Theological Seminary ($1.2M), The Chemists' Club ($379k).
Does Joseph L K Snyder fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph L K Snyder accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph L K Snyder?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Plainfield Foundation, Ej Grassmann Trust.
Where is Joseph L K Snyder based?
Joseph L K Snyder is based in PA.

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 30 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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