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The Abel Family Legacy Trust at a glance

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The Abel Family Legacy Trust

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.

$10k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Religion$101kInternational$60kPublic Benefit$55kHuman Services$45kHealth$38kYouth Development$24kEducation$22kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLEN FAMILY MINISTRIES$5,000
MODERN DAY MISSIONS$5,000
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 (FY18–21, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%DISCOVERING MERCY: $3k → 11%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $6k → 14%REECES RAINBOW: $3k → 7%PROMISE 686: $3k → 9%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3k → 16%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $3k → 8%BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG: $2k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4k → 14%BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG: $2k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $5k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $5k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 9%WATER STREET RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
KS
AR
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$208k · 30 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
69

Total granted

$208k
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+29%

Still filing today

60%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalReligionHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MD
    MODERN DAY MISSIONS
    5× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +222%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $24k · revenue +163%
  • WP
    WILDWOOD PROGRAMS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $16k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • FF
    FAITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $11k
  • MC
    MT CALVARY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • SA
    SPANISH AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATIONSACA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
World Orphans

World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…

—
2
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
3
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
4
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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5
Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
6
Challenge Ministries Us

The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.

International
7
Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

—
8
African Children's Mission Inc

Reaching out to children in east africa living in destitute circumstances, both physically and with the gospel of jesus christ, to enable them to grow and develop in a secure environment.

Religion
9
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
10
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
11
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
12
Childcare Worldwide

Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aurora Ministries Inc. 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

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 100 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/60
Grantees still filing
49/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILDWOOD PROGRAMS INC: $15,500 · OtherWILDWOOD PROGRAMS INCFAITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S PLAYROOM OF LANCASTER: $9,500 · OtherOUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $9,500 · OtherJUSTICE HOUSE OF PRAYER: $7,500 · OtherMT CALVARY CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $7,500 · OtherECHOS: $7,500 · Other+53 more: $152,000 · Other+53 moreMODERN DAY MISSIONS: $26,000 · ReligionMODERN DAY MISSIONSSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $23,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEAllen Family Ministries Inc: $10,000 · ReligionAllen Family Minist…LOU ENGLE MINISTRIES: $4,500 · ReligionLOU ENGLE MINISTRIE…CREATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 · ReligionCROSSNET MINISTRIES: $2,500 · ReligionWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIO…MILAGRO HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMILAGRO HOUSE …THE CALL: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CALLWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $5,000 · Human ServicesWATER STREET M…POWER PACKS PROJECT: $4,500 · Human ServicesPOWER PACKS PR…WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $3,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR EXPEDI…BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesBETHESDA MISSI…REECE'S RAINBOW INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesPromise686 Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $2,500 · Human ServicesA Child's Hope International: $2,500 · Human ServicesAdaptive Training Foundation: $2,500 · Human ServicesDISCOVERING MERCY: $2,500 · Human ServicesHaiti Partners Inc: $8,000 · InternationalHaiti Par…BENDING THE BOW INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · InternationalBENDING T…Compassion International Incorporated: $3,000 · InternationalCompassio…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 · InternationalHABITAT F…LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $3,000 · InternationalLIFESONG …WORLD VISION INC: $2,500 · InternationalWORLD VIS…POLARIS PROJECT: $2,500 · InternationalPOLARIS P…CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $2,500 · InternationalCHURCH WO…CHRISTS VICTORY INTERNATIONAL MISSION OF LIBERIA WEST AFRICA INC: $2,500 · InternationalCHRISTS V…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDE TANZANIA INC: $2,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …HOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC: $6,500 · HealthDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $3,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $3,000 · HealthFoundation for Dreams Inc: $2,500 · HealthA WOMAN'S CONCERN INC: $2,500 · HealthCOMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,500 · HealthCAIRN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationLegacies and Miracles Inc: $2,500 · EducationLEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$219,500Religion$69,000Human Services$53,000International$36,000Health$20,000Education$6,500Philanthropy$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMODERN DAY MISSIONS: $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILDWOOD PROGRAMS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAllen Family Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetHaiti Partners Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBENDING THE BOW INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CALL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER PACKS PROJECT: $4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOU ENGLE MINISTRIES: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAIRN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISCIPLEMAKERS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetN I C K SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHUNTERS SHARING THE HARVEST INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAnambra State Association USA Inc ASA-USA: $3,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLARE HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPromise686 Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK-9 Caring Angels Caring Angels Therapy Dogs: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAURORA MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFoundation for Dreams Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegacies and Miracles Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCREATIVE MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCROSSNET MINISTRIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF LANCASTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WOMAN'S CONCERN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Child's Hope International: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdaptive Training Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDISCOVERING MERCY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTERSHOT MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 MODERN DAY MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds WILDWOOD PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Allen Family Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Haiti Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BENDING THE BOW INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CALL ↗
  • Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds POWER PACKS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LOU ENGLE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CAIRN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds A Place To Turn Inc ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS ↗
  • Who funds DREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC ↗

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…Christian Community F…Clark Associates Char…Richard S & Ann B Bar…Eden Bridge FoundationThe Abigail L Longene…Armstrong World Indus…High FoundationThe Foundation for En…Kalas FoundationBurkholder Family Fou…Shady Maple Foundation
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA30.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn · Eden Bridge Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Armstrong World Industries Fndtn · High Foundation · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Kalas Foundation · Burkholder Family Foundation · Shady Maple 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 The Abel Family Legacy Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Abel Family Legacy Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Abel Family Legacy Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Abel Family Legacy Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 100 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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