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Kettle Run Foundation at a glance

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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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$48kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$3kEducation$1kAnimals$900Community Improvement$600Other$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$162k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Trout Unlimited Donegal Charity$200
Venture Lilitz$200
Individual grant recipient$200
Friends of Cornwall Iron Furnace$200
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association$200
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Lancaster Conservancy: $30k → 9%Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association: $200 → 11%Friends of Cornwall Iron Furnace: $200 → 11%Manada Conservancy: $700 → 12%Lancaster Conservancy: $4k → 9%Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association: $200 → 11%Friends of Cornwall Iron Furnace: $200 → 11%Manada Conservancy: $500 → 12%Lancaster Conservancy: $4k → 9%Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association: $200 → 11%Friends of Cornwall Iron Furnace: $200 → 11%Lancaster Conservancy: $2k → 9%Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association: $100 → 11%Hourglass: $1k → 9%Hourglass: $1k → 9%Lancaster Conservatory: $1k → 9%Hourglass: $500 → 9%Historic Preservation Trust: $500 → 9%Hourglass: $500 → 9%Historic Preservation Trust: $200 → 9%Historic Preservation Trust: $100 → 9%Lancaster Historic Trust: $100 → 9%Lancaster Farmland Trust: $2k → 9%Lancaster Farmland Trust: $2k → 9%Lancaster Farmland Trust: $1k → 9%Lancaster Farmland Trust: $1k → 9%Lancaster Farmland Trust: $100 → 9%Lititz Area Community Chest: $3k → 9%Lititz Area Community Chest: $3k → 9%Lititz Area Community Chest: $2k → 9%Lititz Area Community Chest: $2k → 9%Lititz Public Library: $500 → 9%Lititz Historical Foundation: $300 → 9%Lititz Historical Foundation: $300 → 9%Venture Lilitz: $200 → 9%Lititz Historical Foundation: $200 → 9%Venture Lilitz: $200 → 9%Lititz Public Library: $200 → 9%Venture Lilitz: $200 → 9%Lititz Public Library: $200 → 9%Lititz Historical Foundation: $100 → 9%Lititz Historical Foundation: $100 → 9%Lititz Public Library: $100 → 9%Lititz Public Library: $100 → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 13 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$66k
$1k

Still filing today

69%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +4%
  • LP
    LITITZ PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +12%
  • HM
    HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $700 · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • LH
    Lancaster Historic Trust
    one grant, 2021 · $100
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
Lititz Run Watershed Alliance Cpld

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…

Environment
2
Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Millport Conservancy
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4
Central Pennsylvania Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
5
Little River Wetlands Project Inc

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.

Environment
6
American Littoral Society

Promote the study and conservation of marine life and its habitat, defend the coast from harm, and empower others to do the same.

Environment
7
French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Inc

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…

Environment
8
Lake Erie Islands Conservancy

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.

Environment
9
Montgomery Creek Preserve
Philanthropy
10
Livingston Land Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
11
Lower Howards Creek Nature and Heritage Preserve Inc

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.

Environment
12
Friends of Lackawanna

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lititz Public Library Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $40,000 · EnvironmentLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCYLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST: $6,100 · EnvironmentLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST+2 more: $1,900 · EnvironmentLITITZ AREA COMMUNITY CHEST: $9,500 · PhilanthropyLITITZ AREA COM…Hourglass: $3,000 · OtherHourglassLITITZ PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $1,100 · OtherLITITZ PUBLIC …Individual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual gra…LITITZ HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · OtherLITITZ HISTORI…Historic Preservation Trust: $800 · OtherHistoric Prese…Individual grant recipient: $700 · OtherIndividual gra…Friends of Cornwall Iron Furnace: $600 · OtherFriends of Cor…+2 more: $300 · OtherHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION: $700 · AnimalsVENTURE LITITZ INC: $600 · Arts & Culture
Environment$48,000Philanthropy$9,500Other$8,500Animals$700Arts & Culture$600

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 budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITITZ AREA COMMUNITY CHEST: $9,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST: $6,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANADA CONSERVANCY: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITITZ PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLITITZ HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDONEGAL CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED: $700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURE LITITZ INC: $600 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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…Ppl FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kettle Run Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kettle Run Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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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