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The Rotary Club of Lancaster Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

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
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $30,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $35,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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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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:

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

area typical 10%ROTARY CLUB OF HANOVER PENNSYLVANIA CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $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%LANCASTER CLEFT PALATE CLINIC: $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
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.
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 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.

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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…

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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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5
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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lancaster County; 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 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. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Lancaster County Comm…The Steinman Foundati…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Rotary Club of Lancaster Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rotary Club of Lancaster Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.

    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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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