· Private foundation
Robert M Lauman Charitable Fnd
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHREINERS HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF | $15,000 |
| LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FDN | $12,000 |
| GRETNA THEATRE | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE DWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY | $8,146 |
| BRIDGE YOUTH CENTER OF EPHRATA | $8,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY | $7,500 |
| LITITZ REC CENTER | $7,500 |
| A GIFT OF SMILES | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNIT | $6,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COCALICO VLY | $5,000 |
| VISION CORPS | $5,000 |
| KPETS | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- VVISIONCORPS4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +34%
- DDDWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY4× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +82%
- FCFRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $17k
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +65%
- WSWATER STREET MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +38%
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.
To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.
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…
The organization performs the daily management of the lancaster central market in a manner that facilitates the economic health of standholders' businesses while remaining consistent with traditional market and historic preservation…
The children's museum of lancaster (hands-on-house) has the following mission: creating landmark learning experiences for children and their families through play.
The library's mission is to provide free access to information, education, technology, services and enterrainment to facilitate an informed society. the vision of the library is to be highly valued community source of information,…
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.
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…
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,…
To perform charitable, literacy, scientific, religious, and educational activities in order to promote economic and community development within the greater williamsport and lycoming county areas.
Danville child development center is a community based organization dedicated to giving children a strong foundation for lifelong success by providing supports to families and high quality early learning experiences in safe, nurturing and…
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.
The child development council of northeastern pa, inc. was established to provide child care and nutritional services to working families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Street Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Original Mount Gretna Cicada Music Festival Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 32 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 GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISIONCORPS ↗
- Who funds LITITZ COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LEBANON COUNTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WARWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds A GIFT OF SMILES ↗
- Who funds ORIGINAL MOUNT GRETNA CICADA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CONESTOGA VALLEY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE COCALICO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Music for Everyone ↗
- Who funds TNT YOUTH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds POWER PACKS PROJECT ↗
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 · Ferree Foundation · Kalas Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · The Steinman Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 M Lauman Charitable Fnd 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.