· Private foundation
The Clark Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA | $101,500 |
| LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $100,000 |
| CHRIST'S HOME FOR CHILDREN | $75,000 |
| UNITED DISABLITIES SERVICES | $65,000 |
| LANCASTER EARLY EDUCATION CENTER | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $53,000 |
| MUSSER FOUNDATION | $41,600 |
| LANCASTER SCIENCE FACTORY | $37,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| TENNIS CENTRAL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| LANCASTER CNTY CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $10,000 |
| AARON'S ACRES | $6,000 |
| ADVANTAGE LANCASTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $854k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LPLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $704k · revenue +15%
- UDUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $552k · revenue +105%
- LGLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL8× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +72%
Funded once
REACH OUT AND READ INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +109%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- PTPUBLIC TENNIS INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -11%
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.
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.
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
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 mission of lancaster country day school is to empower students to explore their passions, find purpose, and become the best versions of themselves.
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,…
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 mission is to facilitate the unfolding of each child's unique potential through an outstanding montessori education that enables a child to meet future challenges, and that encourages a love of learning, independent thinking, social…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Clark Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clark Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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