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The Rotary Club of Lancaster Foundation

To support and enhance the quality of public education within the public school districts in and surrounding the lancaster, pennsylvania community; to foster community spirit and enhance the quality of life within the lancaster community by financing and otherwise supporting municipal, community and charitable programs to combat crime,…

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$160kInternational$44kCommunity Improvement$18kHealth$15kEducation$13kPublic Benefit$10kEnvironment$7k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $30,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $35,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$946k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY$30,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROTARY CLUB OF HANOVER PENNSYLVANIA CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10k → 9%LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC: $10k → 9%COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE: $9k → 13%ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $16k → 12%ROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $10k → 9%COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE: $7k → 13%UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $10k → 9%TEC CENTRO FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $60k → 9%UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $30k → 9%UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $20k → 9%UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%THE LITERACY COUNCIL OFLANCASTER- LEBANON LVA INC: $13k → 9%LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $7k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Latino Corporate Directors Association

Lcda serves as an advocate and resource to corporate boards, search firms, private equity, and institutional investors interested in gaining access to exceptional latino board talent.

Education
2
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry

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…

3
Lancaster General Health Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
4
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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Lancaster General Health

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.

Health
6
Library System of Lancaster County

Provide resources, services, and expertise in a collaborative manner to and with the member libraries in order to effectively serve our communities

7
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
8
The Arc of Lancaster County

Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.

Health
9
Federation of International Lacrosse Inc

World lacrosse is the international olympic committee recognized international federation for the sport of lacrosse. as such, it governs the sport globally working with 90+ member national governing bodies and four (4) currently recognized…

Recreation & Sports
10
Unicode Inc

This corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. it is organized under the nonprofit public benefit corporation law for public and charitable purposes. this corporation's…

Science & Tech
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
Latino Corporate Directors Education Foundation

The latino corporate directors education foundation (lcdef) is the affiliated foundation of lcda. together with lcda, the foundation is committed to paving the way for the next generation of us corporate directors. its strategic priority…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lancaster County and the most unlike its peers is Lancaster County Conservancy. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $160,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTYROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $15,520 · OtherROTARY INTERNATI…THE ROTARY CLUB OF LANCASTER — $13,475 · OtherTHE ROTARY CLUB …ROTARY CLUB OF HANOVER PENNSYLVANIA CHARITABLE FUND INC — $10,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF H…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $16,240 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE …THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $12,500 · InternationalTHE ROTARY F…LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC — $10,000 · HealthUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES — $5,000 · HealthLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA — $12,500 · EducationLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY — $7,000 · EnvironmentTEC CENTRO FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$160,000Other$38,995International$28,740Health$15,000Education$12,500Environment$7,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $160,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $16,240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $15,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF LANCASTER — $13,475 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA — $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEC CENTRO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Lancaster County Community FoundationPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Rotary Club of Lancaster 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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