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Robert C Wenger Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$510k
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.1MHuman Services$553kEducation$341kArts & Culture$292kPhilanthropy$262kHousing & Shelter$124kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kCommunity Improvement$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k69 grants · $269k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $112k
$4,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN$7,500
MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES$7,500
LMC$7,000
FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY$7,000
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $6k → 6%TEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $5k → 6%TEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $5k → 6%TEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $5k → 6%TEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $4k → 6%TEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $3k → 6%TEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $3k → 6%BRIDGE OF HOPE: $8k → 9%BRIDGE OF HOPE: $7k → 9%BRIDGE OF HOPE: $7k → 9%BRIDGE OF HOPE: $7k → 9%BRIDGE OF HOPE: $6k → 9%MENNONITE HOME COMMUNITIES: $6k → 9%MENNONITE HOME COMMUNITIES: $5k → 9%MENNONITE HOME COMMUNITIES: $5k → 9%MENNONITE HOME COMMUNITIES: $4k → 9%MENNONITE HOME COMMUNITIES: $3k → 9%MENNONITE HOME COMMUNITIES: $3k → 9%COBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 9%COBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%COBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%BRETHREN VILLAGE: $3k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $6k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $6k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $5k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $4k → 9%ALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%ALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%ALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%ALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%ALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%LANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $20k → 9%LANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $18k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%ALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $8k → 9%ALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $7k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $7k → 9%ALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $6k → 9%LANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $6k → 9%LANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%LANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%LANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $4k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 98 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
13

Total granted

$4.1M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+6%

Still filing today

42%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationReligionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LM
    LANCASTER MENNONITE CONFERENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +5%
  • LH
    LANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +54%
  • FC
    FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • A
    ASSETS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • LM
    LANCASTER MENNONITE CONFERENCE LEGACY FD
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • EM
    EASTERN MENNONITE MISSIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
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
Mennonite Friendship Communities Inc

Enhancing the Quality of Life of residents, staff and community at large within a framework of Mennonite values.

Human Services
2
Mennonite Camp Association of Oregon Inc

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

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3
Fairview Fellowship Home for Senior Citizens Inc

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.

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4
Luthercare

"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…

Human Services
5
Goodwill Mennonite Home Inc

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…

Employment
6
Virginia Mennonite Home Inc

We are a christ-centered community cultivating compassion, integrity and respect for aging well and living fully.

Health
7
Lancaster Camp Meeting & Church Assembly Association Inc

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…

Religion
8
Calvary Fellowship Homes Inc

The christ-centered mission of calvary homes is to enrich the lives of residents, staff and the community.

Human Services
9
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
10
Baptist Homes Society

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,…

Health
11
Landis Quality Living

To provide housing with services for adults to age in place and thrive in community.

Housing & Shelter
12
Fairmount Homes

Fairmount homes is a ministry with mature adults, providing high quality services, promoting wholeness and creative living consistent with christ-centered mennonite values.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mennonite Home; 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.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
36/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPHRATA CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN: $484,475 · OtherEPHRATA CHURCH OF THE BRETHRENIndividual grant recipient: $456,775 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEVERENCE SHARING FUND: $154,000 · OtherEVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $145,000 · Other+83 more: $2,149,506 · Other+83 moreLANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $59,750 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $52,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $37,250 · Human ServicesALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $36,000 · Human ServicesTEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $31,750 · Human ServicesTHE MENNONITE HOME: $27,750 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $25,200 · Human ServicesBRETHREN VILLAGE: $21,200 · Human ServicesCOBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $15,944 · Human ServicesSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MINISTRY CENTER: $186,525 · EducationGEHMANS MENNONITE SCHOOL: $32,250 · EducationFAITH MENNONITE HIGH SCHOOL: $32,250 · EducationDIAMOND STREET EARLY CHILDHOOD CENT: $9,000 · Education+1 more: $5,500 · EducationLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB: $35,700 · ReligionCAMP SWATARA: $28,500 · ReligionREAL LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $26,700 · ReligionBLACK ROCK RETREAT: $23,250 · ReligionMENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES: $50,500 · InternationalSWISS PIONEER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATES INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE COCALICO VALLEY: $14,500 · Arts & CultureBRETHREN & MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTER: $7,225 · Arts & CultureEPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES: $2,000 · Arts & CultureWELSH MOUNTAIN HOME: $27,000 · Housing & ShelterCITY GATE INC: $5,500 · Housing & ShelterTANDEM LIVING: $4,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,389,756Human Services$306,844Education$265,525Religion$114,150International$50,500Arts & Culture$46,225Housing & Shelter$37,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MINISTRY CENTER: $186,525 over 8y, 17% of budgetLANCASTER MENNONITE CONFERENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $110,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetLANDIS HOMES RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $59,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY: $52,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEPHRATA AREA SOCIAL SERVICES: $50,700 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES: $50,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMENNOMEDIA INC: $37,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $37,250 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetALPHA & OMEGA COMMUNITY CENTER: $36,000 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FOOD HUB: $35,700 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGEHMANS MENNONITE SCHOOL: $32,250 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFAITH MENNONITE HIGH SCHOOL: $32,250 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTEL HAI RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: $31,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SWATARA: $28,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MENNONITE HOME: $27,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLITITZ AREA MENNONITE SCHOOL: $27,750 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWELSH MOUNTAIN HOME: $27,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetREAL LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $26,700 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCAMP ANDREWS: $26,250 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $25,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWOODCREST RETREAT ASSOCIATION: $24,250 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP DEERPARK INC: $23,250 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP HEBRON INC: $23,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK ROCK RETREAT: $23,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSWISS PIONEER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATES INC: $22,500 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetMENNONITE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $22,500 over 8y, 15% of budgetBRETHREN VILLAGE: $21,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $16,925 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCOBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $15,944 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION COMMUNITY CARE: $14,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE COCALICO VALLEY: $14,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetDIAMOND STREET EARLY CHILDHOOD CENT: $9,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRETHREN REVIVAL FELLOWSHIP INC: $7,700 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBRETHREN & MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTER: $7,225 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNO LONGER ALONE MINISTRIES INC: $7,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEPHRATA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCITY GATE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MENNONITE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CLINIC FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSFIRE YOUTH MINISTRIES: $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTENFOLD: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH CENTER INC: $500 over 2y, 0.2% 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 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 THE MENNONITE HOME ↗

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…Eden Bridge FoundationClark Associates Char…Shady Maple FoundationAnabaptist FoundationCrels FoundationThe Norman & Elizabet…The Steinman Foundati…Central Pennsylvania …Christian Community F…Everence Association …William and Jemima Br…
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA63.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert C Wenger Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert C Wenger Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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.

    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 113 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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