Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Clark Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $634k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $101,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Clark Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $634k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $589k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $606k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $532k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $612k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $603k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $577k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $539k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster Day Care Center | $806,250 | 9 | 9% |
| Lancaster Public Library | $704,300 | 9 | 4% |
| United Disabilities Services | $552,100 | 9 | 1% |
| The Musser Foundation | $286,900 | 9 | 60% |
| Lancaster Science Center | $232,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Tennis Central | $128,300 | 6 | 17% |
| Lancaster General Hospital | $100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lancaster Health Center | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Aaron's Acres | $48,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Advantage Lancaster | $18,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster Day Care Center | $806,250 | 9 | 9% |
| Lancaster Public Library | $704,300 | 9 | 4% |
| United Disabilities Services | $552,100 | 9 | 1% |
| The Musser Foundation | $286,900 | 9 | 60% |
| Lancaster Science Center | $232,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Tennis Central | $128,300 | 6 | 17% |
| Lancaster General Hospital | $100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lancaster Health Center | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Aaron's Acres | $48,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Advantage Lancaster | $18,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lancaster Country Club Foundation | $8,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Golf for a Cure | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Reach Out and Read Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Tennis Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Lancaster County Bible Church | $800 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Clark Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Thomas a and Georgina T Russo Foundation · Kalas Foundation · Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn · United Way of Lancaster County · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About The Clark Family Foundation
- How much does The Clark Family Foundation give?
- The Clark Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $634,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Clark Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Crime & Legal (16%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Clark Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lancaster Day Care Center ($806k), Lancaster Public Library ($704k), United Disabilities Services ($552k).
- Does The Clark Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Clark Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Clark Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, The Steinman Foundation, The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation.
- Where is The Clark Family Foundation based?
- The Clark Family Foundation is based in PA.
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