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Kinsley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $403k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $820k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFEPATH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $500,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $320,000 |
| YORK DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY | $200,000 |
| YORK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| PENN-MAR FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| FIRST FRUITS FARM | $125,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF YORK | $100,000 |
| SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC MINISTRIES | $83,333 |
| CRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| APPELL CENTER | $50,000 |
| YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $50,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| YORK COUNTY LIBRARIES | $50,000 |
| LADEW GARDENS PATRON CIRCLE | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $360k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
125 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 83 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k 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
- YCYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +17%
- YCYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $745k · revenue +262%
- PFPENN-MAR FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $606k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- LGLADEW GARDENS- OUTRIGHT GIFT COMMITMENTone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- FHFair Hill Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -88%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $125k
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.
The york county bar association is a non-profit professional membership association of attorneys and judges. it exists to serve the needs of the lawyers, judges and public of york county. the association and its members have dedicated…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
York Land Trust is a nonprofit organization that protects and cares for significant natural lands and waterways in the greater York Maine area for the benefit of the community and the environment.
York hospital is a premier community teaching hospital providing quality, cost-effective health care services strongly supporting excellence in education, and offering essential services without regard for an individual's ability to pay.
The york county convention and visitors bureau, inc. (the bureau) plans and promotes programs designed to stimulate and increase the volume of tourist, visitor, vacation and convention business within york county, pennsylvania.
The mission of the society is to enrich the area's quality of life by providing and facilitating educational, entertainment, recreational, agricultural, commercial and social activities for the benefit of the residents and businesses of…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
The wellspan medical group was founded and operates on the belief that a large, well-organized group practice, based on primary and preventive care, and working collaboratively as part of an integrated health care delivery system, can…
UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…
The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mpala Wildlife Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
122 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. 122 of the 243 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENN-MAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YORK UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YORK HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Fair Hill Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAPPUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YORK CITY PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YORK ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELL SOCIALIZATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
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: York County Community Foundation · Powder Mill Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · White Rose Leadership Institute · Memorial Health Fund · The Stewart Foundation · United Way of York County · Rice Family Foundation · The Graham Foundation · Wellspan Health · Russell E & Eleanor B Horn Foundati
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 Kinsley 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Land Preservation Trust Inc — 64% of income from government
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc — 28% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Harford Land Trust Inc — 15% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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