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Kinsley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
69
Grants FY2025
67
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
57 to 99
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$23M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Kinsley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $557k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving69$2.4M39%
FY202467$1.7M30%
FY202359$1.5M22%
FY202265$2.8M18%
FY202157$1.3M25%
FY202062$2.8M10%
FY201969$2.3M25%
FY201899$1.5M46%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.8MArts & Culture$2.5MFood & Nutrition$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.0MPhilanthropy$1.0MHealth$983kHuman Services$952kEnvironment$880kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

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

Show all 125 grantees
All grantees of Kinsley Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
York College of Pennsylvania$3,502,50081%
York County History Center$745,18285%
Penn-Mar Foundation$606,25098%
Holderness School$600,00061%
York Union Rescue Mission Inc$502,50034%
Villanova University$440,00070%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$345,50080%
York Health Foundation$300,75052%
York County Library System$300,00061%
Fair Hill Foundation Inc$250,000122%
Pappus House$166,00064%
Lancaster County Conservancy$146,00024%
York City Parks Conservancy$112,50056%
Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc$109,00042%
Junior Achievement of South Central Pa$100,00071%
York Art Association Inc$100,000123%
Bell Socialization Services Inc$100,00011%
Cultural Alliance of York County$90,00091%
Susan P Byrnes Health Education Center Inc$82,50062%
Equiteam Support Services$81,00086%
Choices Healthcare$66,75050%
Spiritrust Lutheran Foundation$62,0007n/a
Gettysburg College$60,00030%
York County Literacy Council$53,50075%
Crispus Attucks Association of York Pa$50,75031%
The Adams County Historical Society$50,67091%
Creative York$44,00078%
The Manor Foundation Inc$42,200117%
Keystone Kidspace$42,00044%
Pennsylvania Nat'L Horse Show Foundation$40,00040%
Harford Land Trust Inc$32,65091%
Wee Connect Early Learning Inc$30,000110%
Misericordia Convalescent Home$30,00030%
YMCA of the Roses$30,00020%
Temple Gwathmey Steeplechase Foundation Inc$27,97746%
County of York$25,0001n/a
Wellspring of Life Farm Inc$25,000214%
York County Bar Foundation$22,25071%
New Hope Ministries Inc$20,00010%
Peace Promise$18,50023%
Leg Up Farm Inc$18,50060%
York County Food Bank$16,97570%
Better York$15,50038%
Housing Development Corporation Midatlantic$15,00010%
York Day Nursery Inc$12,00060%
Preservation Pennsylvania$10,25053%
Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna Inc Dba Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Ass$10,00012%
Girls on the Run Mid State Pa$10,00011%
Watershed Alliance of York (Way) Inc$10,00011%
Eichelberger Performing Arts Center$10,00011%
Goodwill Fire Company #1$10,00011%
Greenlight Operation$10,00012%
White Rose Leadership Institute$10,00011%
Sparrow Place$8,50017%
Main Street York Inc$8,25011%
Positive Energy Arts Foundation$8,0001n/a
Ronny Maher Memorial Inc$7,956720%
Land Preservation Trust Inc$7,00060%
The Manor Conservancy Inc$6,60043%
Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership$6,00020%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc$5,75020%
Leadership York$5,25050%
Pink Power$5,00012%
The Parliament$5,00011%
Olivia's House - a Grief and Loss Center for Children$4,50090%
York Opioid Collaborative$3,00021%
Variety the Childrens Charity$2,50010%
Chesapeake Conservancy Inc$2,50010%
York County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$2,50040%
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc$2,50030%
Beat The Streets Inc$2,50012%
Cornerstone Youth Home$2,5001n/a
LCH Health and Community Services$2,50010%
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank$2,00030%
Washington College$2,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$2,00020%
Community Progress Council Inc$2,00020%
Martin Library Association$1,95040%
Land Conservancy of Adams County Inc$1,80040%
Katallasso Inc$1,75030%
Tennessee Historical Society$1,50010%
Virginia Point to Point Foundation$1,50021%
Off the Streets Middletown Inc$1,5001n/a
The Village Library$1,25021%
Beyond the Wire Inc$1,20020%
York Academy Regional Charter School$1,00010%
York County Veterans Outreach$1,0001n/a
Help for Oncology Problems and Emotional Support$1,00020%
Harford United Charities Inc$1,00025%
Mpala Wildlife Foundation Inc$1,00020%
Windy Hill Senior Center Inc$1,00020%
Holy Trinity Catholic School$1,0001n/a
Amateur Riders Club of America$90011%
South Central York County Senior Center Inc$90020%
York Fresh Food Farms$7502n/a
Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc$75020%
York County Honors Choirs Inc$60040%
The Boat Company Ltd$50010%
Jacobus Lions Club Foundation$50010%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$50010%
Counseling Service of Addison County$50010%
Stick N Move Boxing Inc$50012%
Sweet Charities of Hanover Inc$50010%
Gaudenzia Inc$50010%
Strong City Baltimore Inc$50010%
Wellspan Health$50010%
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc$50010%
Jewish Community Centre of York Pennsylvania$36010%
Boys and Girls Club of Frederick Co$25010%
Suicide Prevention of York$2501n/a
Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania Inc$25010%
Central Pa Horse Rescue$25010%
York County 4-H Endowment$25011%
Ashley Inc$25010%
Holding Hope$2501n/a
United Way of Berks County Inc$25010%
American Heart Association Inc$25010%
The Lincoln Forum$20010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$15010%
The Arc of York County Inc$15020%
St Elizabeth Ann Seton Church$1501n/a
Animal Rescue Inc$1001n/a
Equine Rescue Ambulance Inc$1001n/a
Coudersport Volunteer Fire Dep$10010%
Coudersport Volunteer Ambulanc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 116 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYork College of Pennsylvania: $3,502,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetYork County History Center: $745,182 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetPenn-Mar Foundation: $606,250 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetHolderness School: $600,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYork Union Rescue Mission Inc: $502,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetVillanova University: $440,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $345,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYork Health Foundation: $300,750 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetYork County Library System: $300,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFair Hill Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPappus House: $166,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetLancaster County Conservancy: $146,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetYork City Parks Conservancy: $112,500 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetUpper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc: $109,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of South Central Pa: $100,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetYork Art Association Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetBell Socialization Services Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCultural Alliance of York County: $90,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSusan P Byrnes Health Education Center Inc: $82,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetEquiteam Support Services: $81,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetChoices Healthcare: $66,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGettysburg College: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYork County Literacy Council: $53,500 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetCrispus Attucks Association of York Pa: $50,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Adams County Historical Society: $50,670 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCreative York: $44,000 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetThe Manor Foundation Inc: $42,200 over 1y, 17% of budgetKeystone Kidspace: $42,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetPennsylvania Nat'L Horse Show Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHarford Land Trust Inc: $32,650 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetWee Connect Early Learning Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMisericordia Convalescent Home: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA of the Roses: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTemple Gwathmey Steeplechase Foundation Inc: $27,977 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetWellspring of Life Farm Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetYork County Bar Foundation: $22,250 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNew Hope Ministries Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeace Promise: $18,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLeg Up Farm Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYork County Food Bank: $16,975 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBetter York: $15,500 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetHousing Development Corporation Midatlantic: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYork Day Nursery Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPreservation Pennsylvania: $10,250 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetStewards of the Lower Susquehanna Inc Dba Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Ass: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGirls on the Run Mid State Pa: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWatershed Alliance of York (Way) Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEichelberger Performing Arts Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 112.

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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.

York County Community FoundationPA105.9× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

Compare Kinsley Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Kinsley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kinsley Foundation 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 Kinsley Foundation

How much does Kinsley Foundation give?
Kinsley Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $2,436,927 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 99 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kinsley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Arts & Culture (14%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are Kinsley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: York College of Pennsylvania ($3.5M), York County History Center ($745k), Penn-Mar Foundation ($606k).
Does Kinsley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kinsley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kinsley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include York County Community Foundation, Powder Mill Foundation, Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation.
Where is Kinsley Foundation based?
Kinsley Foundation 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 243 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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