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Kalas 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 $10k57 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RE-IGNITE HOPE | $10,000 |
| FULTON THEATRE | $6,500 |
| LINDE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY PROJECT FOR NEEDY | $5,000 |
| MDA | $5,000 |
| CAVOD PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| ADAMSTOWN AREA LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ARBOR PLACE | $5,000 |
| LANCASTER SCIENCE FACTORY | $5,000 |
| SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRICS | $5,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF LANCASTER | $5,000 |
| DENVEREPHRATA ROTARY CLUB | $5,000 |
| HELPING HARVEST | $5,000 |
| JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
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, $108k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 19 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- HHHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK7× · 2018–2024 · $44k · revenue +133%
- WSWATER STREET MINISTRIES4× · 2021–2024 · $27k · revenue +38%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES7× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $7k
- FTFULTON THEATERone grant, 2018 · $7k
- WAWreaths Across Americaone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
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 advocate for and provide quality services to people with developmental disabilities and ensure their health, safety and welfare while promoting personal choice and growth.
Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.
To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.
Empower single parents and their children to set and attain educational goals through parent support and mentorship, early childhood education and safe affordable childcare.
Rooted in faith and compassion we provide services that honor the dignity of all by striving to meet basic human needs.
Our mission is success through lifelong learning and learning for life. our vision is for adults to have the skills to transform their lives, sustain their families and strengthen their communities.
Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.
The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
Lancaster county academy's mission is to empower non-traditional learners to achieve academic success, career readiness and personal growth through flexible, student-centered programs that values independence, resilience, and real-world…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arbor Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cavod Performing Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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. 37 of the 127 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 HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FULTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY PROJECT FOR THE NE ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CLARE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA ↗
- Who funds LONG'S PARK AMPHITHEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ADAMSTOWN AREA LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Reignite Hope ↗
- Who funds REAMSTOWN FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ONE WISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEMPFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POWER PACKS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
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 · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · High Foundation · William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Gooding Group Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdn
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 Kalas 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.
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.
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