· Private foundation
The Steinman 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 $10k44 grants · $220k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $612k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $7.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEINMAN INSTITUTE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT | $7,000,000 |
| LANCASTERHISTORYORG | $400,000 |
| TOUCHSTONE FOUNDATION | $229,419 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE | $156,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER | $120,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $118,675 |
| LANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY | $75,750 |
| THE FILM COLLABORATIVE | $75,000 |
| COCALICO SCHOOL DISTRICT | $75,000 |
| HORIZONS AT LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $74,000 |
| LANCASTER SCIENCE FACTORY | $70,000 |
| LANCASTER CLEAN WATER PARTNERS | $65,000 |
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, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
141 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 35 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $595k 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
- LFLANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +70%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +37%
- UWUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $885k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- HDHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTICone grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue -2%
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY LOCAL JOURNALISM FUNDone grant, 2022 · $500k
- LILENFEST INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISMone grant, 2018 · $250k
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.
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…
Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.
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.
Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.
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…
To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.
To transform lives by serving as a creative force that promotes excellence in leadership, coordination, and orderly business development
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Assets lancaster is a non-profit that works with start-up and existing businesses to form a more equitable and ethical economy. assets lancaster offers in-depth training and financing for entrepreneurs, and works with established…
Central business group on health advocates for the appropriate balance between cost and quality of employee healthcare in lancaster county by providing education on healthcare issues, promoting cooperation among payers, providers and…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Little Conestoga Creek Foundation. 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 31 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 303 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE CONESTOGA CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTERHISTORYORG ↗
- Who funds WATER SCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LA ACADEMIATHE PARTNERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MARKET TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST FUND ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TENFOLD COMMUNITY LENDING ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW TECH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Music for Everyone ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SIDE OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATI ↗
- Who funds SUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TENFOLD ↗
- Who funds THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 · High Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · Ferree Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · City Limits Foundation · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial 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 Steinman 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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