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The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$309k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
8
Organizations funded FY2022
13%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2022
$299,279
Organizations funded a year
8 to 31
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 13% of the organizations The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20228$309k13%
FY202125$16k48%
FY202019$23k32%
FY201919$23k26%
FY201828$44k54%
FY201731$28kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Religion$321kEducation$45kHuman Services$23kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$9kInternational$5kEnvironment$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MD
DC
MS
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Diocese of Harrisburg$299,2791n/a
St Anne's Retirement Communityinc$10,73060%
A Woman's Concern Inc$5,95060%
Hands Together Inc$5,00010%
Our Lady of Divine Providence House of Prayer Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Phi$4,80010%
Eagles Mere Conservancy$3,00051%
Off the Streets Middletown Inc$2,5002n/a
Eagles Mere Friends of the Arts$2,00021%
The New School of Lancaster Dba New School Montessori$1,50020%
Smarthub Foundation$1,0001n/a
Eagles Mere Athletic Association$1,00020%
Lancaster County Conservancy$1,00010%
Servants Inc$50010%
First Presbyterian Church$5001n/a
Cabrini Legacy Corporation$50010%
Sullivan County Victim Services Inc$35020%
Amigos de Jesus$30010%
Sullivan County Food Pantry$2502n/a
Lycoming County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$10010%
Joni and Friends$10010%
Music for Everyone$10010%
Eagles Mere Historic Village Inc$10010%
Eagles Mere Civic Club Inc$501n/a
Institute for Priestly Formation Inc$501n/a

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Anne's Retirement Communityinc: $10,730 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA Woman's Concern Inc: $5,950 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHands Together Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOur Lady of Divine Providence House of Prayer Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhi: $4,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEagles Mere Conservancy: $3,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetEagles Mere Friends of the Arts: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe New School of Lancaster Dba New School Montessori: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEagles Mere Athletic Association: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLancaster County Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetServants Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCabrini Legacy Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSullivan County Victim Services Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmigos de Jesus: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLycoming County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoni and Friends: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic for Everyone: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEagles Mere Historic Village Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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 Community FoundationPA21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Andrew R & Dorothy L Cochrane Foundation · Susan Bailey & Sidney Buford Scott Endowment Trust · Dicarlo Plank Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation

How much does The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation give?
The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $308,995 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Religion (72%), Education (10%), Human Services (5%).
Who are The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Diocese of Harrisburg ($299k), St Anne's Retirement Communityinc ($11k), A Woman's Concern Inc ($6k).
Does The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, Andrew R & Dorothy L Cochrane Foundation, Susan Bailey & Sidney Buford Scott Endowment Trust.
Where is The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation based?
The Gerald & Suzanne Ganse Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 71 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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