How much does Kalas Foundation give?

Kalas Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $172,875 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Kalas Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (16%), Health (16%), Housing & Shelter (12%).

Who are Kalas Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank ($49k), Fulton Theatre Company ($46k), Lancaster County Project for the Ne ($33k).

Does Kalas Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kalas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kalas Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation, The Steinman Foundation.

Where is Kalas Foundation based?

Kalas Foundation is based in PA.

Foundation Dossiers

Pennsylvania · Private foundation

Kalas Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$173k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 56
Grants FY2025: 57
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $8,000
Organizations funded a year: 28 to 57; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $2.6M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Kalas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthPublic BenefitOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	56	$173k	38%
FY2024	57	$169k	33%
FY2023	45	$145k	40%
FY2022	34	$94k	26%
FY2021	38	$151k	39%
FY2020	31	$53k	42%
FY2019	30	$44k	47%
FY2018	28	$62k	61%

91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$121kHealth$119kHousing & Shelter$92kArts & Culture$78kEducation$67kRecreation & Sports$57kHuman Services$55kYouth Development$28kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank	$49,000	8	0%
Fulton Theatre Company	$46,054	7	0%
Lancaster County Project for the Ne	$32,500	8	8%
Water Street Ministries	$29,500	5	0%
Good Samaritan Services	$27,500	8	0%
Clare House Inc	$23,550	9	2%
Milagro House Inc	$23,550	9	1%
Lancaster Science Center	$23,500	9	0%
Junior Achievement of South Central Pa	$20,000	6	0%
Lancaster Day Care Center	$17,500	4	0%

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All grantees of Kalas Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank	$49,000	8	0%
Fulton Theatre Company	$46,054	7	0%
Lancaster County Project for the Ne	$32,500	8	8%
Water Street Ministries	$29,500	5	0%
Good Samaritan Services	$27,500	8	0%
Clare House Inc	$23,550	9	2%
Milagro House Inc	$23,550	9	1%
Lancaster Science Center	$23,500	9	0%
Junior Achievement of South Central Pa	$20,000	6	0%
Lancaster Day Care Center	$17,500	4	0%
Adamstown Area Library	$16,250	6	1%
Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation	$16,000	8	1%
Reignite Hope	$10,000	1	1%
Reamstown Fire Company	$9,000	5	0%
One Wish Foundation	$8,500	6	1%
Real Life Community Services	$8,000	3	0%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc	$7,500	2	0%
Power Packs Project	$7,500	3	0%
Hempfield Foundation	$7,500	2	6%
Jans Circle Of Friends	$7,500	7	3%
Cocalico Education Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
Cavod Performing Arts	$5,000	1	0%
Friendship Community	$5,000	2	0%
Arbor Place Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Wreaths Across America	$5,000	1	0%
Ephrata Area Social Services	$5,000	1	n/a
The Rotary Club of Lancaster	$5,000	1	4%
North Star Initiative	$5,000	1	0%
Hope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading	$5,000	1	n/a
Visioncorps	$3,500	2	0%
Cocalico Wrestling Booster Club	$3,500	3	n/a
Garden Spot Fire Rescue	$3,000	1	n/a
Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic	$3,000	1	0%
Im Able Foundation	$2,500	1	1%
City Light Ministries	$2,500	1	n/a
The Wildcat Foundation	$2,500	1	1%
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank	$2,500	1	0%
One80 Ministries	$2,500	1	n/a
New Hope Ministries Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Ephrata Area Rehab Services	$2,500	1	0%
Highpoint Community Church	$2,000	1	n/a
Opportunity House	$2,000	1	0%
Bethany Childrens House Inc	$2,000	1	n/a
Lancaster Public Library	$2,000	1	0%
Upmc Chautauqua at Wca	$1,150	2	0%
Kyle Pagerly Memorial Fund Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Bstrong Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Conestoga Valley Christian Community Services	$1,000	1	0%
Servant Stage Company	$1,000	1	0%
Solanco Neighborhood Ministries	$1,000	1	n/a
Mennonite Disaster Service	$1,000	1	n/a
Womelsdorf Community Library	$1,000	1	n/a
United Disabilities Services	$1,000	1	0%
Forgotten Friend Inc	$500	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 94 recipients with no EIN on record ($451k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kalas Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 40.

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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 Community FoundationPA55.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · High Foundation · William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Gooding Group Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn

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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About Kalas Foundation

How much does Kalas Foundation give?: Kalas Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $172,875 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kalas Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (16%), Health (16%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are Kalas Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank ($49k), Fulton Theatre Company ($46k), Lancaster County Project for the Ne ($33k).
Does Kalas Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kalas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kalas Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation, The Steinman Foundation.
Where is Kalas Foundation based?: Kalas Foundation is based in PA.