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Larking Hill Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$243k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$66,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 22
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Larking Hill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$177k8%
FY202420$131k5%
FY202322$165k32%
FY202219$169k16%
FY202119$149k32%
FY202018$136kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$547kFood & Nutrition$231kReligion$163kPhilanthropy$101kArts & Culture$90kHuman Services$81kHealth$68kEnvironment$34kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
PA
NJ
VA
NC
SC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Larking Hill Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: $198,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMain Line Health Inc: $56,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDuke University: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Marys School: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUpper McMichael Creek Conservancy: $20,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetEpiscopal Relief and Development: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChester County Food Bank: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty Science Center: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMain Line Meals on Wheels Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPbs Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Gardens Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilson College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salvation Army World Service Office: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Greater Brandywine: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Church Preservation Trust: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhilabundance: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLankenau Medical Center Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Larking Hill Foundation

How much does Larking Hill Foundation give?
Larking Hill Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $243,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Larking Hill Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Religion (12%).
Who are Larking Hill Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society ($198k), Church of the Redeemer ($140k), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ($75k).
Does Larking Hill Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Larking Hill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Larking Hill Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Hamilton Family Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.
Where is Larking Hill Foundation based?
Larking Hill Foundation 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 38 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-PF 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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