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North Foundation Inc

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.

$159k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$247kHuman Services$182kHousing & Shelter$66kReligion$63kYouth Development$38kFood & Nutrition$32kPhilanthropy$19kHealth$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$100k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS$40,000
BRITTANY'S HOPE$30,000
BRIDGE OF HOPE NATIONAL$15,000
ANCHOR LANCASTER$15,000
THE FACTORY MINISTRIES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
JUBILEE MINISTRIES$3,000
SCOUTING AMERICA$3,000
CONESTOGA VALLEY SEEDS$3,000
HOPE WALKS$3,000
THREE SPRINGS MINISTRIES$3,000
LIFECYCLES$3,000
WENGER FOUNDATION$2,500
PRIMA THEATRE$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $240k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CALVARY HOMES: $2k → 9%CALVARY HOMES: $2k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY SEEDS: $4k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY SEEDS: $3k → 9%CONESTOGA VALLEY SEEDS: $3k → 9%WATER STREET MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%WATER STREET MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%WATER STREET MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%WATER STREET MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%WATER STREET MINISTRIES: $4k → 9%WATER STREET MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%HOPE INSPIRE LOVE: $2k → 9%WARWICK COMMUNITY HUB: $27k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $25k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $6k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $6k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $5k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $3k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $3k → 9%WARWICK COMMUNITY HUB: $2k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $2k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $2k → 9%WARWICK COMMUNITY HUB: $2k → 9%BRITTANY'S HOPE: $30k → 9%BRITTANY'S HOPE: $25k → 9%BRITTANY'S HOPE: $25k → 9%NORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%BRITTANY'S HOPE: $20k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $1k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$795k · 37 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
18

Total granted

$795k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+88%

Still filing today

73%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LF
    LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $195k · revenue +27%
  • BH
    BRITTANY'S HOPE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +27%
  • NS
    NORTH STAR INITIATIVE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +281%

Funded once

  • LF
    Lititz Fire Company #1graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +149%
  • AB
    ANCHORAGE BREAKFAST PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
2
Intimate Life Ministries
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3
Transform Ministries
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4
Lifesource Ministries Inc

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.

Health
5
Door of Hope Ministry Inc

Door of hope discipleship ministry is a biblical counseling ministry located in columbus, north carolina, offering discipleship both in group settings at various conferences and teaching ministries and on a personal level through…

Religion
6
Lighthouse Christian Home and Services Inc

For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.

Human Services
7
Light of Life Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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9
Support for Prison Ministries

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…

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10
Hopewell Ministries

To provide Christian counseling.

Human Services
11
Tandem Living

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Life Impact Inc

To offer r.e.s.t. to pastors, global workers, and christian leaders: rest. encouragement. safety. transformation.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Street Ministries; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 69 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
33/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIDGE OF HOPE NATIONAL: $57,000 · OtherBRIDGE OF HOPE NATIONALLOVE INC OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $28,500 · OtherLOVE INC OF LANCASTER COUNTYALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES: $21,000 · OtherALIGN LIFE MINISTRIESLititz Fire Company #1: $15,000 · OtherLititz Fire Company #1RAISE28: $9,100 · OtherTEEN CENTRAL MANHEIM: $9,000 · Other+36 more: $124,750 · Other+36 moreBRITTANY'S HOPE: $100,000 · Human ServicesBRITTANY'S HOPENORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTH STAR INITIATIVEWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $41,027 · Human ServicesWATER STREET MINISTRIESWARWICK COMMUNITY HUB: $30,500 · Human ServicesWARWICK COMMUNITY HUBCONESTOGA VALLEY SEEDS: $9,500 · Human Services+3 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $195,000 · InternationalLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INCHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $18,500 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONAL+1 more: $6,000 · InternationalJUBILEE MINISTRIES: $24,100 · ReligionJUBILEE M…LIFECYCLES INC: $17,100 · ReligionLIFECYCLE…CROSSNET MINISTRIES: $10,500 · ReligionCROSSNET …REAL LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8,000 · ReligionREAL LIFE…MEN OF IRON: $6,000 · ReligionMEN OF IR…THREE SPRINGS MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 · Religion+5 more: $6,500 · Religion+5 moreANCHOR LANCASTER: $37,500 · Food & NutritionTHE FACTORY MINISTRIES: $24,500 · Youth DevelopmentTNT YOUTH MINISTRY: $3,100 · Youth DevelopmentLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWENGER FOUNDATION INC: $8,750 · Philanthropy
Other$264,350Human Services$240,027International$219,500Religion$75,200Food & Nutrition$37,500Youth Development$27,600Philanthropy$18,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $195,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRITTANY'S HOPE: $100,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH STAR INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $41,027 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetANCHOR LANCASTER: $37,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWARWICK COMMUNITY HUB: $30,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE FACTORY MINISTRIES: $24,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES: $24,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES: $21,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFECYCLES INC: $17,100 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetLititz Fire Company #1: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCROSSNET MINISTRIES: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONESTOGA VALLEY SEEDS: $9,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetRAISE28: $9,100 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWENGER FOUNDATION INC: $8,750 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetREAL LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetARBOR PLACE INC: $7,400 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTENFOLD: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEN OF IRON: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE WALKS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIAMOND STREET EARLY CHILDHOOD CENT: $5,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP HEBRON INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTNT YOUTH MINISTRY: $3,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONELIFE INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENCH MARK PROGRAM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE INSPIRE LOVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL DISCIPLES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE REVOLUTION: $1,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSOUL CARE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKRAYBILL MENNONITE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROW HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRITTANY'S HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ANCHOR LANCASTER ↗
  • Who funds WARWICK COMMUNITY HUB ↗
  • Who funds THE FACTORY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ALIGN LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds LIFECYCLES INC ↗
  • Who funds Lititz Fire Company #1 ↗
  • Who funds CROSSNET MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONESTOGA VALLEY SEEDS ↗
  • Who funds RAISE28 ↗
  • Who funds WENGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REAL LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ARBOR PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds TENFOLD ↗
  • Who funds MEN OF IRON ↗
  • Who funds LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
  • Who funds DIAMOND STREET EARLY CHILDHOOD CENT ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HEBRON INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY FELLOWSHIP HOMES INC ↗

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…Clark Associates Char…Shady Maple FoundationBurkholder Family Fou…Central Pennsylvania …Christian Community F…Eden Bridge FoundationThe Foundation for En…Anabaptist FoundationPryor E & Arlene R Ne…Tuscarora Wayne Mutua…Wenger Foundation Inc
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA51.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 North Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to North Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to North Foundation Inc 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 69 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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