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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.

$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$384kReligion$10kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $55,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $65,147 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,147 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$767k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES$15,000
LITITZ CHOOSES LOVE$10,000
YWCA LANCASTER$10,000
CASA OF LANCASTER$10,000
ZION COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CASA OF LANCASTER: $10k → 9%LITITZ CHOOSES LOVE: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Lancaster Community Safety Coalition

Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth
Philanthropy
3
Philadelphia Children's Alliance

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
5
Casa of Allegheny County

To recruit and train community members to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
6
Luzerne County Child Advocacy Center Inc

Empower child abuse victims, their families and the community through education, healing and justice.

Crime & Legal
7
The Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center of Lebanon & Schuylkill Cou

Sarccs mission is to prevent sexual violence and promote healing for those impacted.

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8
Community Justice Project

To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
9
Children's Advocacy Centers of Pennsylvania

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.

Youth Development
10
Women's Law Project

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…

Civil Rights
11
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence

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.

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12
Pittsburgh Action Against Rape

To respond, educate, and advocate to end sexual violence.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Lancaster and Lebanon Counties; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES: $269,088 · Crime & LegalMIDPENN LEGAL SERVICESPENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSAFE COMMUNITIES: $10,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $5,000 · Crime & LegalBENCH MARK PROGRAM: $20,000 · OtherBENCH MARK PROGRAMZION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherZION COMMUNITY SER…LANCASTER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE: $10,000 · OtherLANCASTER COUNTY D…YWCA LANCASTER: $10,000 · OtherYWCA LANCASTERCOUNTY OF LANCASTER (PA) KENDERDINE SELF-HELP CENTER LANCASTER COUNTY COU: $7,640 · OtherCOUNTY OF LANCASTE…LANCASTER LGBTQ COALITION: $7,000 · OtherLANCASTER LGBTQ CO…Lancaster County Chooses Love: $10,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS MARK: $10,000 · HealthPARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Religion
Crime & Legal$294,088Other$64,640Human Services$25,000Health$10,000Religion$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES: $269,088 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBENCH MARK PROGRAM: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMPASS MARK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE COMMUNITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetLancaster County Chooses Love: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYWCA LANCASTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVOZ: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

Lancaster County Comm…Touchstone Foundation…United Way of Lancast…High FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lancaster Law Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lancaster Law Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Lancaster Law Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lancaster Law 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.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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