· Private foundation
Robert C Wenger Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k69 grants · $269k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPHRATA CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN | $57,375 |
| Individual grant recipient | $54,150 |
| EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $25,500 |
| SUQUEHANNA VALLEY MINISTRY CENTER | $21,825 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,075 |
| EVERENCE SHARING FUND | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,750 |
| GERMANTOWN TRUST - BRETHERN | $13,325 |
| MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE | $12,000 |
| FAIRMOUNT HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY | $11,500 |
| EVERENCE FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES | $7,500 |
| CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN | $7,500 |
| LMC | $7,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- LMLANCASTER MENNONITE CONFERENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +5%
- LHLANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY7× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +54%
- FCFRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY8× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- AASSETSone grant, 2021 · $20k
- LMLANCASTER MENNONITE CONFERENCE LEGACY FDone grant, 2017 · $12k
- EMEASTERN MENNONITE MISSIONSone grant, 2020 · $9k
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.
Enhancing the Quality of Life of residents, staff and community at large within a framework of Mennonite values.
Nurture christian faith, provide formative experiences for youth, provide a welcoming place for renewal in god's creation, be a resource for congregations and conference activities
Organized as a retirement center, for senior citizens and disabled individuals, offering spiritual, mental and physical nurture according to christ's servant attitude in a manner exceeding regulations.
"luthercare reflects christ's love through service to others." our mission is to enhance the quality of life through creative senior living opportunities, family life through quality child care and early learning centers, appropriate…
Goodwill mennonite home provides a continuum of care offering independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, and memory care services. goodwill mennonite home's mission is to serve individuals withy dignity and respect, supporting…
We are a christ-centered community cultivating compassion, integrity and respect for aging well and living fully.
The organization operates a faith based housing community, including permanent lot rental and seasonal housing and campground. the organization provides the oppportunity for spiritual development, church congregation and provides…
The christ-centered mission of calvary homes is to enrich the lives of residents, staff and the community.
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
Building on our over 100 year tradition of excellence, we offer a full continuum of enriched living, compassionate care, and benevolence to a broad spectrum of individuals. we promote a lifestyle of growth, creativity and independence,…
To provide housing with services for adults to age in place and thrive in community.
Fairmount homes is a ministry with mature adults, providing high quality services, promoting wholeness and creative living consistent with christ-centered mennonite values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mennonite Home and the most unlike its peers is Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 113 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 SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER MENNONITE CONFERENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds MENNOMEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB ↗
- Who funds GEHMANS MENNONITE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAITH MENNONITE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CAMP SWATARA ↗
- Who funds LITITZ AREA MENNONITE SCHOOL ↗
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 · Eden Bridge Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Shady Maple Foundation · Anabaptist Foundation · Crels Foundation · The Norman & Elizabeth Hahn Family Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Everence Association Inc · William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable 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 Robert C Wenger Charitable Trust 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.