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Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn

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.

$368k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$253kEducation$226kHealth$200kScience & Tech$100kHousing & Shelter$57kFood & Nutrition$50kYouth Development$40kArts & Culture$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $221k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTHCARE FDN$50,000
AARONS ACRES$30,000
LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE$30,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
VISIONCORPS FOUNDATION$20,000
YORK COUNTY CEREBRAL PALSY HOME$20,000
LANCASTER SCIENCE FACTORY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES$15,000
YMCA OF THE ROSES$10,500
TENFOLD$10,000
KPETS - KEYSTONE PET ENHANCED$10,000
POWER PACKS PROJECT$10,000
PRIMA ARTS INC$10,000
CHRIST'S HOME FOR CHILDREN$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $227k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $5k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $5k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $5k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $5k → 6%PAPPUS HOUSE: $3k → 9%CASA OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $5k → 9%YORK COUNTY CEREBRAL PALSY HOME: $20k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $11k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $10k → 9%AARONS ACRES: $30k → 9%AARONS ACRES: $30k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $5k → 9%AARONS ACRES: $23k → 9%HERITAGE SENIOR CENTER INC: $5k → 9%AARONS ACRES: $10k → 9%EXCENTIA HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $10k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $10k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $10k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $5k → 9%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $5k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$942k · 36 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
18

Total granted

$942k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • LS
    LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • AA
    AARON'S ACRES
    4× · 2019–2024 · $93k · revenue +38%
  • UD
    UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTY AGRICULTURE COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -27%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%

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

04Your field

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.

1
The Arc of Lancaster County

Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.

Health
2
Lancaster County Community Foundation

We embolden extraordinary community by investing in people and ideas that will shape the future of lancaster county.

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Lancaster Emergency Medical Services Association

To provide comprehensive, skillful, cost effective emergency and non- emergency health care services to the lancaster community while continuing to evolve with changing health care needs.

Health
5
Lancaster Day Care Center

Lancaster early education center provides affordable, quality childcare services to local families, mostly minority, while they are employed, completing their education, or in a job training program. the center participates in the…

Human Services
6
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry

The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the chamber has 5 strategic priorities: public policy, workforce, business…

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7
Lancaster General Health Foundation

The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…

Philanthropy
8
Lancaster General Health

Provides managerial and financial support to its controlled organizations and is also responsible for undertaking activities designed to advance the general health of the community.

Health
9
The New School of Lancaster Dba New School Montessori

The mission is to facilitate the unfolding of each child's unique potential through an outstanding montessori education that enables a child to meet future challenges, and that encourages a love of learning, independent thinking, social…

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10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
12
Lancaster Preschool

Lancaster preschool believes that the preschool is an extension of the home environment where children can learn new skills, interact with teachers and peers, and experience hands-on learning opportunities through developmentally…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster Country Day School and the most unlike its peers is Keystone Human Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Social ServicesYork County Community FundsSenior Services and Food As…Faith-Based Charitable Assi…Lancaster County Community …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr13%23%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/44
the rest of the field
9%
440/5,024

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 65 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTHCARE FDN — $50,000 · OtherLANCASTER GENERAL HEALTHCARE FDNVISIONCORPS FOUNDATION — $47,500 · OtherVISIONCORPS FOUNDATIONPAI CORPORATION — $25,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION — $23,500 · OtherYORK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherTHADDEUS STEVENS COLLEGE — $20,000 · OtherTHE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherSERVANTS INC — $20,000 · Other+28 more — $221,500 · Other+28 moreAARON'S ACRES — $93,000 · Human ServicesAARON'S ACRESPOWER PACKS PROJECT — $40,000 · Human ServicesPOWER PACKS PROJECTYMCA OF THE ROSES — $25,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSESGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICE…YORK COUNTY CEREBRAL PALSY HOME INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesYORK COUNTY CEREBRAL P…FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY — $10,000 · Human Services+6 more — $28,000 · Human Services+6 moreLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationLANCASTER BI…PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $30,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA…LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationLANCASTER CO…YORK DAY NURSERY INC — $12,650 · EducationYORK DAY NUR…MESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · EducationMESSIAH UNIV…THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER — $100,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER S…PRIMA ARTS INC — $11,500 · Arts & CulturePRIMA ARTS …PENNON ORGANIZATION — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePENNON ORGA…+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES — $60,000 · HealthA WOMAN'S CONCERN INC — $21,000 · HealthKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES — $4,000 · HealthLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST — $35,000 · EnvironmentGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$537,500Human Services$236,500Education$130,150Arts & Culture$124,000Health$85,000Environment$35,000Youth Development$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER — $100,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAARON'S ACRES — $93,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONCORPS FOUNDATION — $47,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPOWER PACKS PROJECT — $40,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES — $25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA WOMAN'S CONCERN INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSERVANTS INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYORK COUNTY CEREBRAL PALSY HOME INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTENFOLD — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYORK DAY NURSERY INC — $12,650 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA HERITAGE CORPORATION — $11,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPRIMA ARTS INC — $11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPENNON ORGANIZATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE VOCATIONAL SERVICES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LANCASTER — $10,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY AGRICULTURE COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLARE HOUSE INC — $9,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF LANCASTER — $9,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANCASTER HEALTH CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAI CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INSPIRE LOVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHERITAGE SENIOR CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAPPUS HOUSE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMusic for Everyone — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Lancaster County Comm…The Steinman Foundati…Clark Associates Char…High FoundationFerree FoundationWillis and Elsie Shen…Pryor E & Arlene R Ne…York County Community…William and Jemima Br…The Abigail L Longene…United Way of Lancast…Anne & Philip Glatfel…
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA71.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · High Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · York County Community Foundation · William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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