· Public charity
Lancaster Law Foundation
We promote equal access to justice for all in lancaster county by funding public interest law projects, delivering pro bono service, and educating the public on civic and legal issues.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $55,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $65,147 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,147 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| LITITZ CHOOSES LOVE | $10,000 |
| YWCA LANCASTER | $10,000 |
| CASA OF LANCASTER | $10,000 |
| ZION COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.
Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
To recruit and train community members to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.
Empower child abuse victims, their families and the community through education, healing and justice.
Sarccs mission is to prevent sexual violence and promote healing for those impacted.
To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.
To promote and support the development, growth and continuation of the multidisciplinary approach and children's advocacy centers for the protection of pennsylvania's children.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The pennsylvania coalition against domestic violence (pcadv) is a statewide collaborative membership organization committed to ending intimate partner violence and all forms of violence and oppression.
To respond, educate, and advocate to end sexual violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Lancaster and Lebanon Counties and the most unlike its peers is Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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
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 MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BENCH MARK PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMPASS MARK ↗
- Who funds PARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFE COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Lancaster County Chooses Love ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds YWCA LANCASTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOZ ↗
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: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organization · United Way of Lancaster County · High Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lancaster Law 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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