· Private foundation
North Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS | $35,000 |
| BRITTANY'S HOPE | $25,000 |
| ANCHOR LANCASTER | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE NATIONAL | $10,000 |
| THE FACTORY MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| JUBILEE MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| CONESTOGA VALLEY SEEDS | $2,500 |
| CROSSNET MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| LOVE INC OF LANCASTER COUNTY | $2,500 |
| CV CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HOPE INSPIRE LOVE | $2,000 |
| LIFECYCLES | $2,000 |
| WARWICK COMMUNITY HUB | $2,000 |
| REAL LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
36 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 14 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $155k · revenue +27%
- BHBRITTANY'S HOPE3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +27%
- NSNORTH STAR INITIATIVE8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +463%
Funded once
- LFLititz Fire Company #1graduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +149%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.
The christ-centered mission of tandem living is to partner with and support vibrant senior living communities where residents pursue their passions, deepen their relationships, prioritize their wellness, and live fully at every age.
Christ-centered organization dedicated to empowering women with the truth and hope they need to choose life. develop and distribution of informational and educational materials.
The ministry exists to serve offenders in prison and ex-offenders in the community by showing god's love, providing practical assistance, and supporting biblical standards of justice.
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
The mission of bridge of hope national is to engage christian faith communities in ending family homelessness through neighboring relationships that demonstrate christ's love.
Lighthouse christian ministries (lcm) is a christ centered ministry dedicated to reaching people with the gospel of jesus christ through spiritual means of prayer, bible study, and church services. lcm will also help the poor and needy…
Endeavors to fulfill the great commission by developing godly character in young people and training them for missions outreach. the organization aims to unify and strengthen the local church and missions movements by forming a centralized…
The organization is an inter-denominational ministry that contracts chaplain services to lancaster county prison and lancaster county youth intervention center. the organization conducts bible studies, mentoring, counseling, distributes…
Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.
We partner with people with disabilities, people with other barriers, young adults, children, and families to pursue their hopes and dreams through strengthening workplace abilities, building life skills, and developing meaningful…
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Street Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Wenger Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 56 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 LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds BRITTANY'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WARWICK COMMUNITY HUB ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR LANCASTER ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE FACTORY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Lititz Fire Company #1 ↗
- Who funds LIFECYCLES INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSNET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RAISE28 ↗
- Who funds HOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARBOR PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds TENFOLD ↗
- Who funds CONESTOGA VALLEY SEEDS ↗
- Who funds WENGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF IRON ↗
- Who funds REAL LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND STREET EARLY CHILDHOOD CENT ↗
- Who funds LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CALVARY FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HEBRON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
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 · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Shady Maple Foundation · Burkholder Family Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Eden Bridge Foundation · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Anabaptist Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundation · Wenger Foundation Inc
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 North Foundation Inc 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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