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The Strickler Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$322k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$125k
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 FY20222025.

Human Services$225kArts & Culture$180kEducation$152kPublic Benefit$150kEnvironment$25kInternational$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$381k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
State YMCA of Pennsylvania$125,000
Lancaster History$50,000
Pennsylvania Dutch Council 524$50,000
The Hill School$50,000
Yale University$17,000
Southern California Institute Of Architecture$10,000
Colebrook Preservation Society Inc$10,000
New York League of Conservation Voters Education$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Hill School: $50k → 7%Rock Ford Foundation: $10k → 9%State YMCA of Pennsylvania: $125k → 12%Southern California Institute Of Architecture: $10k → 14%Two East Sixty Second Street Foundation: $10k → 17%The Coldonour Land Conservancy: $15k → 9%The Hill School: $30k → 7%Pennsylvania Dutch Council 524: $50k → 9%State YMCA of Pennsylvania: $100k → 12%International Rescue Committee: $5k → 17%Colebrook Preservation Society Inc: $10k → 9%Pennsylvania Dutch Council 524: $50k → 9%New York League of Conservation Voters Education: $10k → 17%Pennsylvania Dutch Council 524: $50k → 9%Lancaster History: $50k → 9%Lancaster History: $50k → 9%Lancaster History: $50k → 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 edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$667k · 5 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$667k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-4%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalOther

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

  • SY
    STATE YMCA OF PENNSYLVANIA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $225k · revenue +104%
  • L
    LANCASTERHISTORYORG
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +32%
  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Coldonour Land Conservancy
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • TE
    TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -87%
  • RF
    ROCK FORD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
The Louise Steinman Von Hess Foundation
2
The South Carolina Historical Society

The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.

Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
5
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
9
The Company of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum

Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…

10
The Rye Historical Society

To discover, collect and preserve any material which may help to establish or illustrate the history of the area; to disseminate knowledge of local history and to foster public awareness of and pride in, the heritage of the rye community.

11
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
12
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancasterhistoryorg and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STATE YMCA OF PENNSYLVANIA INC — $225,000 · OtherSTATE YMCA OF PENNSYLVANIA INCPennsylvania Dutch Council 524 — $150,000 · OtherPennsylvania Dutch Council 524YALE UNIVERSITY — $62,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY+2 more — $25,000 · Other+2 moreLANCASTERHISTORYORG — $150,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTERHISTORYORGTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREE…ROCK FORD FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureROCK FORD FOUNDATIONCOLEBROOK PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOLEBROOK PRESERVATION SOCI…THE HILL SCHOOL — $80,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHO…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE — $10,000 · EducationSOUTHERN CALI…International Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 · International
Other$462,000Arts & Culture$180,000Education$90,000International$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 budgetSTATE YMCA OF PENNSYLVANIA INC — $225,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetLANCASTERHISTORYORG — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK FORD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOLEBROOK PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Strickler Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 12 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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