· 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".
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| KEYSTONE TRAILS ASSOCIATION | $5,125 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of Lancaster County Conservancy’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 76%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +131% since the first grant, against +65% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOSTEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS2× · 2022–2023 · $26k · revenue +131%
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY HOUSING & REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES2× · 2019–2020 · $20k
- MRMARIETTA RESTORATION ASSOCIATESINC2× · 2019–2020 · $18k · revenue +26% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- CBCOLUMBIA BUROUGHLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- DCDONEGAL CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +65%
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.
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.
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Enhance the economic well-being of lancaster county by bringing together business resources, capital and government for selective, measurable and sustainable growth.
Support member businesses through education and promotion, and support the quality of life in lancaster county through promoting compatible economic development.
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Preservation
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.
Increase understanding, awareness and support for role of pennsylvania's conservation officers in the management of our natural resources through public outreach porgrams and by promoting professional and fraternalism within organization.
Economic Development and Tourism Promotion in Eastern Kentucky
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How this is measured
6 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. 6 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEWARDS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA INC DBA LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVERKEEPER ASS ↗
- Who funds DONEGAL CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA RESTORATION ASSOCIATESINC ↗
- Who funds Haldeman Mansion Preservation Soc ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lancaster County Conservancy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lancaster County Conservancy. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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