· Private foundation
The Clark Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $447k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA | $101,750 |
| LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $100,000 |
| CHRIST'S HOME FOR CHILDREN | $75,000 |
| UNITED DISABLITIES SERVICES | $60,000 |
| LANCASTER EARLY EDUCATION CENTER | $57,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52,800 |
| MUSSER FOUNDATION | $31,600 |
| LANCASTER SCIENCE FACTORY | $27,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| LANCASTER CNTY CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| AARON'S ACRES | $6,000 |
| DEEP WELL PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ADVANTAGE LANCASTER | $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 (FY17–24, $788k) 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. 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.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- LPLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $604k · revenue +15%
- UDUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $487k · revenue +105%
- LGLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL7× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +72%
Funded once
REACH OUT AND READ INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +109%- PTPUBLIC TENNIS INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -11%
- FTFIRST TEE OF THE LOWCOUNTRYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 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.
Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.
The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.
Provide resources, services, and expertise in a collaborative manner to and with the member libraries in order to effectively serve our communities
The mission of lancaster country day school is to empower students to explore their passions, find purpose, and become the best versions of themselves.
Provides managerial and financial support to its controlled organizations and is also responsible for undertaking activities designed to advance the general health of the community.
The best healthcare, for the lowest cost, for the most people.
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,…
The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the chamber has 5 strategic priorities: public policy, workforce, business…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster General Hospital and the most unlike its peers is The Musser Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 34 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 DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE MUSSER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TENNIS CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds AARON'S ACRES ↗
- Who funds ADVANTAGE LANCASTER ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TENNIS INC ↗
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 · 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
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 The Clark Family Foundation 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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.