Pennsylvania · Public charity
Lancaster County Conservancy
The mission of the LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY is "providing wild and forested lands and clean waterways for our community forever". The charitable purposes of the LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY include preservation of natural lands, ecosystems, landscapes and waterways for future generations. Conservancy preserves are open to the public…
- $48k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of Lancaster County Conservancy’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Lancaster County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2024
- $33k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $92M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Lancaster County Conservancy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $13k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $33k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $49k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $46k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $26k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna Inc Dba Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Ass | $25,725 | 2 | 4% |
| Donegal Chapter Trout Unlimited | $20,970 | 1 | n/a |
| Lancaster County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Marietta Restoration Associatesinc | $18,368 | 2 | 36% |
| Haldeman Mansion Preservation Soc | $5,700 | 1 | 4% |
| Keystone Trails Association | $5,125 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lancaster County Conservancy
- How much does Lancaster County Conservancy give?
- Lancaster County Conservancy reported 3 itemized grants totaling $32,625, out of $47,875 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Lancaster County Conservancy fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (42%), Philanthropy (19%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are Lancaster County Conservancy's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna Inc Dba Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Ass ($26k), Donegal Chapter Trout Unlimited ($21k), Lancaster County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities ($20k).
- Does Lancaster County Conservancy fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lancaster County Conservancy?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Lancaster County Conservancy based?
- Lancaster County Conservancy is based in PA.
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