· Private foundation
Kettle Run 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lancaster Conservancy | $30,000 |
| Lancaster Conservancy | $4,000 |
| Lititz Area Community Chest | $3,000 |
| Lancaster Farmland Trust | $2,000 |
| Hourglass | $1,000 |
| Manada Conservancy | $700 |
| Lititz Public Library | $500 |
| Lititz Historical Foundation | $300 |
| Venture Lilitz | $200 |
| Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| Friends of Cornwall Iron Furnace | $200 |
| Trout Unlimited Donegal Charity | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +4%
- LPLITITZ PUBLIC LIBRARY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +12%
- DCDONEGAL CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED3× · 2022–2024 · $700 · revenue +86%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
- LHLancaster Historic Trustone grant, 2021 · $100
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.
Improve the quality of life within the Community by developing and implementing a Comprehensive Plan for the Lititz Run Watershed. This endeavor will focus the community on improving its water quality through a comprehensive long-term…
See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…
The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and…
To restore and protect wetlands in the historic watershed of the little river, a major tributary of the wabash river, and to provide educational opportunities that encourage good stewardship of wetlands and other natural ecosystems.
Promote the study and conservation of marine life and its habitat, defend the coast from harm, and empower others to do the same.
To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…
Encourage conservation & protection of natural & agricultural lands in the lake erie islands for the benefit of this & future generations through purchase of land & sponsorship of programs & walks at these preserves.
To protect the natural heritage and rural character of the greater Livingston County area by preserving quality natural areas and productive farmland. To promote an appreciation and understanding of the environment for the long term…
The organization was formed to manage a 441 acre nature preserve. management includes controlling invasive species of plants, having archaeological surveys conducted and restoring historical sites.
Friends of lackawanna is a pennsylvania non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the health and welfare of the residents of northeastern pennsylvania and educating individuals regarding the health and safety of the enviroment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lititz Public Library Inc and the most unlike its peers is Donegal Chapter Trout Unlimited. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LITITZ AREA COMMUNITY CHEST ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MANADA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LITITZ PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LITITZ HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONEGAL CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VENTURE LITITZ 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 · Ppl Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kettle Run 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.