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Ressler Mill Foundation
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.
The 15 grants below total $32,435 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $35,435 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,000 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 |
|---|---|
| Mill Creek Preservation Association | $7,500 |
| The Penn State University | $4,875 |
| The Dictionary Project | $4,050 |
| Upper Leacock Fire Company | $3,000 |
| Eastern Lancaster County Library | $2,500 |
| Intercourse Public Library | $2,500 |
| Conestoga Valley Christian Community Services | $2,000 |
| The Dictionary Project | $1,824 |
| CrossNet Ministries | $1,000 |
| The Factory Ministries | $1,000 |
| The Dictionary Project | $768 |
| Pequea Valley School District | $570 |
| Witmer Fire Protective Association | $500 |
| National Constitution Center | $264 |
| National Constitution Center | $84 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- ULUPPER LEACOCK FIRE COMPANY3× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +11%
- ILINTERCOURSE LIBRARY INC2× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +21%
- TFTHE FACTORY MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- LFLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $165k · revenue -14%
- NHNEW HOLLAND AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -39%
- TSTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +43%
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.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Provide resources, services, and expertise in a collaborative manner to and with the member libraries in order to effectively serve our communities
The purpose of the new castle public library is to provide free public library service to all residents of its designated service area and as further set forth in its articles of incorporation pursuant to the pennsylvania nonprofit…
The organization's purpose is to maintain a free public non-sectarian library in the borough of lansdale, pennsylvania, for the benefit of lansdale residents.
The centre county library & historical museum is a free community destination providing books, information, internet access, and technology resources to preserve our heritage and promote a lifetime of reading and learning.
The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
The mission of the franklin county library system is to enrich the lives of the residents of the region through access to materials, information, and services imparting the knowledge, experience, and wisdom of others, through qualified…
The lancaster community library is a center for the cultural, intellectual, and recreational pursuits of the community. through its materials, programs, and services, the library promotes literacy, provides lifetime learning opportunities,…
Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.
To inspire curiosity, creativity, and confidence by fostering an inclusive environment for hands-on stem exploration. we actively seek to make our facility and educational programs accessible to all.
The mission of the lewisboro library is to provide the community with free, uncensored access to information through a variety of media and services, and offer educational, cultural, recreational, and civic engagement opportunities in a…
To provide public library services and promote reading to delmont pennsylvania and surrounding communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster Farmland Trust and the most unlike its peers is New Holland Area Historical Society. 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 18 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 LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds UPPER LEACOCK FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE DICTIONARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW HOLLAND AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN LANCASTER COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds INTERCOURSE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FACTORY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CROSSNET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
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 · Ashland Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.
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