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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Pa

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL PA provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families and promote healing when children need healthcare.

$203k
Granted FY2017
18
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k7 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $163k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER$25,000
THE VISTA FOUNDATION$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC$25,000
PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE$15,000
GAUDENZIA INC$12,000
AARON'S ACRES$10,941
FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOLS$10,000
NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC$10,000
EQUITEAM SUPOORT SERVICES$10,000
THE KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN CAPITAL AREA$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF YORK AND ADAMS COUNTIES$7,500
YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM$7,500
LEG UP FARM INC$7,150
CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK$5,700
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $11k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $4k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $6k → 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 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
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
2
Child Guidance Resource Centers

To provide high quality, community-based therapeutic, supportive, and preventive healthcare services for children, adolescents and families with mental health, development disability, and residential needs

Health
3
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services
4
Pa Treatment & Healing

The mission of pa treatment & healing is to guide people on a path to change through quality counseling, treatment and education. this is accomplished by providing a comprehensive individual and family centered, values oriented treatment…

Community Improvement
5
George Junior Republic in Pennsylvania

To help at-risk youth become successful, well adjusted adults, capable of achieving a higher degree of citizenship and a better understanding of responsibility to society, family, and self.

Health
6
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
7
Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health
8
Centre County Youth Service Bureau

The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…

Human Services
9
Vna Home Health Services

Vna home health services provides part-time, skilled, intermittent home health services that have been ordered by a physician and are medically necessary to the treatment of an illness or injury. vna home health services offers a wide…

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10
Sadler Health Center Corporation

To advance the health of our community by providing inclusive, high quality and compassionate care.

Health
11
Children's Center

Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

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12
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vista Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Equiteam Support Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAMARITAN CENTER — $25,000 · OtherSAMARITAN CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC — $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INCYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM — $7,500 · OtherYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC — $7,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK C…GAUDENZIA INC — $12,000 · HealthGAUDENZIA INCKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL PA — $10,000 · HealthKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF…EQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES — $10,000 · HealthEQUITEAM SUPPORT SER…THE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA — $5,059 · HealthTHE GOOD SAMARITAN H…THE VISTA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationTHE VISTA FOUNDATIO…FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOLS — $10,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE …AARON'S ACRES — $10,941 · Human ServicesAARON'S ACRESNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW HOPE MINISTRI…CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK — $5,700 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME O…MILAGRO HOUSE INC — $4,275 · Human ServicesMILAGRO HOUSE INCPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE — $15,000 · Crime & LegalGIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEG UP FARM INC — $7,150 · AnimalsJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA — $2,500 · International
Other$65,000Health$37,059Education$35,000Human Services$30,916Crime & Legal$15,000Youth Development$10,000Animals$7,150International$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAMARITAN CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VISTA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY SUPPORT ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARON'S ACRES — $10,941 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL DAUPHIN SCHOOLS — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL PA — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN MID STATE PA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF YORK COUNTY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLEG UP FARM INC — $7,150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK — $5,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA — $5,059 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC — $4,275 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Foundation for En…Lancaster County Comm…Rite Aid Healthy Futu…Anne & Philip Glatfel…Kinsley FoundationYork County Community…Rice Family FoundationThe Donald B and Doro…Pennsylvania Automoti…Firstenergy FoundationFulton Family Foundat…Kenneth Bankert Found…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Kinsley Foundation · York County Community Foundation · Rice Family Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc

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 Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Pa 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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