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The Lancaster Foundation 7522-Xxxxxx14179 at a glance

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The Lancaster Foundation 7522-Xxxxxx14179

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$186k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Public Safety & Disaster$200kHealth$98kPhilanthropy$45kEducation$4kArts & Culture$4kHuman Services$2kPublic Benefit$2kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k6 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFALAB FUND$89,646
INNER FIRE$50,157
CONCORD FUND$44,823
WALDORF SCHOOL$500
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$500
FINCA$200
BOSTON RESCUE MISSION$100
COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS$100
HOLE IN THE WALL CAMP$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CT
RI
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$226k · 36 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
18

Total granted

$226k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+45%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EH
    EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +207%
  • WM
    WEEKS MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +105%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • CH
    CONCORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $500
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $200
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
6
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
11
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
31/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INNER FIRE: $200,157 · OtherINNER FIRESAFALAB FUND: $89,646 · OtherSAFALAB FUNDCONCORD FUND: $44,823 · OtherCONCORD FUND+30 more: $9,580 · OtherEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthWEEKS MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $800 · Health+3 more: $525 · HealthBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORD CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $800 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $400 · Arts & CultureTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $2,000 · EducationTHE WALDORF SCHOOL INC: $500 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $200 · EducationEdChoice Inc: $100 · Education+2 more: $100 · EducationJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,200 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 · Public BenefitAMERICAN IMMIGRATION CONTROL FOUNDATION INC: $200 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $200 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $100 · Public BenefitCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $600 · InternationalMercy Corps: $200 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $50 · International
Other$344,206Health$8,325Arts & Culture$3,700Education$2,900Public Benefit$2,200Philanthropy$1,500International$950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEEKS MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTEC Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALDORF SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRO ENGLISH: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 60 PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $130 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcord Friends of the Aging Corp: $100 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONCORD LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncZachary and Lindsey G…Neil & Anna Rasmussen…Pobble Stone Foundati…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lancaster Foundation 7522-Xxxxxx14179 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lancaster Foundation 7522-Xxxxxx14179. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Concord Chamber Music Society Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Lancaster Foundation 7522-Xxxxxx14179 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 59 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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