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Lancaster Equity Inc

Lancaster equity coordinates efforts to advance communities where everyone has an opportunity to thrive, whether that be through neighborhood revitalization, living wage work, entrepreneurship, or safe and affordable housing.

$15k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Lancaster Equity Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$15k100%
FY20211$111k100%
FY20173$81kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$112kCommunity Improvement$95k

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Lancaster$110,6641n/a
Saca Development Corporation$41,00012%
Tenfold Community Lending$20,00012%
Assets Lancaster$20,00012%
Tenfold$15,00010%

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.

Lancaster County Community FoundationPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Lancaster Equity Inc

How much does Lancaster Equity Inc give?
Lancaster Equity Inc reported 1 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Lancaster Equity Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (54%), Community Improvement (46%).
Who are Lancaster Equity Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Lancaster ($111k), Saca Development Corporation ($41k), Tenfold Community Lending ($20k).
Does Lancaster Equity Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lancaster Equity Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation.
Where is Lancaster Equity Inc based?
Lancaster Equity Inc 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 5 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 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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