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Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organization

The TOUCHSTONE FOUNDATION SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION, via touchstone foundation, elevates the mental well-being of youth and children in lancaster county.

$255k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$573kHuman Services$226kCrime & Legal$69kEducation$61kYouth Development$44kReligion$25kInternational$19kEmployment$16kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $246,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $255,302 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,302 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.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK$52,500
TEAMCARE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LLC$25,200
BENCH MARK PROGRAM$19,500
SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER$19,100
MATTERS OF THE HEART COUNSELING LLC$18,200
Individual grant recipient$15,600
THOUGHTFUL WELLNESS LLC$15,600
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY$15,000
COBYS FAMILY SERVICES$14,700
COMMUNITY SERVICES GROUP$13,000
YWCA LANCASTER$12,500
HORIZONS AT LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$8,000
REDEMPTION WELLNESS SERVICES LLC$6,500
DONEGAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE ALLIANCE CORPORATION$5,400
LANCASTER LGBTQ COALITION$5,200
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 (FY19–23, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%CASA OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $15k → 9%COBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $16k → 9%COBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%COBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%COBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $14k → 9%MILAGRO HOUSE: $14k → 9%DONEGAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE ALLIANCE CORPORATION: $5k → 9%ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES (ECHOS): $11k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$775k · 17 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$775k
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+77%

Still filing today

76%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • SC
    SAMARITAN CENTER
    6× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +23%
  • CF
    COBYS FAMILY SERVICES
    4× · 2019–2023 · $59k · revenue +55%
  • BM
    BENCH MARK PROGRAM
    3× · 2021–2023 · $44k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNION COMMUNITY CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +126%
  • PR
    PARISH RESOURCE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +27%
  • BC
    BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $19k
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
Lancaster Community Safety Coalition

Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Lawrence County Association for Responsible Care

To advocate for and provide quality services to people with developmental disabilities and ensure their health, safety and welfare while promoting personal choice and growth.

Human Services
3
Lancaster Emergency Medical Services Association

To provide comprehensive, skillful, cost effective emergency and non- emergency health care services to the lancaster community while continuing to evolve with changing health care needs.

Health
4
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
5
Literacy Council of Lanc-Leb Lva

Our mission is success through lifelong learning and learning for life. our vision is for adults to have the skills to transform their lives, sustain their families and strengthen their communities.

Education
6
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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7
Lancaster Harm Reduction Project Inc
Health
8
Care-Net of Lancaster

The best healthcare, for the lowest cost, for the most people.

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9
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
10
Lancaster County Academy

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…

Education
11
Children's Advocacy Center of Lawrence County

To reduce trauma and re-victimization of child abuse victims in lawrence county, pennsylvania and the surrounding area through interagency and interprofessional cooperation, evidence gathering, treatment and education regarding child…

Health
12
Central Penn Business Group On Health

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lancaster Lgbtq Center; the most unlike its peers is Patients R Waiting 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

27 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. 27 of the 37 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMARITAN CENTER: $94,100 · OtherSAMARITAN CENTERTEAMCARE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LLC: $75,800 · OtherTEAMCARE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LLCMATTERS OF THE HEART COUNSELING LLC: $48,200 · OtherMATTERS OF THE HEART COUNSELING LLCBENCH MARK PROGRAM: $44,000 · OtherBENCH MARK PROGRAMTHOUGHTFUL WELLNESS LLC: $30,600 · OtherTHOUGHTFUL WELLNESS LLCLANCASTER HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 · OtherCHI ST JOSEPH CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $25,000 · OtherYWCA LANCASTER: $25,000 · OtherBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $19,000 · Other+9 more: $104,031 · Other+9 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC: $77,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNE…COBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $59,176 · Human ServicesCOBYS FAMILY SERVICESBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $28,975 · Human ServicesBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVI…CASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $15,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF LANCASTER AND L…MILAGRO HOUSE INC: $14,400 · Human ServicesMILAGRO HOUSE INCELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES: $11,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,400 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK: $87,500 · HealthPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH A…PATIENTS R WAITING INC: $37,000 · HealthPATIENTS R WAITING IN…COMPASS MARK: $35,000 · HealthCOMPASS MARKUNION COMMUNITY CARE: $25,000 · HealthUNION COMMUNITY CAREMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $11,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $23,000 · EducationLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,300 · EducationLANCASTER-LEBANON EDUCATION FOUNDAT: $13,800 · EducationADVOZ: $38,500 · Crime & LegalPARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $25,000 · ReligionHUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS: $18,500 · International
Other$490,731Human Services$211,451Health$200,500Education$57,100Crime & Legal$38,500Religion$25,000International$18,500

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 budgetSAMARITAN CENTER: $94,100 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK: $87,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC: $77,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOBYS FAMILY SERVICES: $59,176 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBENCH MARK PROGRAM: $44,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetADVOZ: $38,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPATIENTS R WAITING INC: $37,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCOMPASS MARK: $35,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $28,975 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION COMMUNITY CARE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHI ST JOSEPH CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARISH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetYWCA LANCASTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS: $18,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $16,281 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF LANCASTER: $15,800 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCASA OF LANCASTER AND LEBANON COUNTIES: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMILAGRO HOUSE INC: $14,400 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLANCASTER-LEBANON EDUCATION FOUNDAT: $13,800 over 1y, 12% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY HOUSING & OUTREACH SERVICES: $11,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $11,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDONEGAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE ALLIANCE: $5,400 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWELLSPAN HEALTH: $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…United Way of Lancast…The Steinman Foundati…High FoundationThe Abigail L Longene…Touchstone FoundationAshland FoundationLancaster Law Foundat…Willis and Elsie Shen…Clark Associates Char…Ppl FoundationTecumseh Milestone Fo…
Lancaster County Community FoundationPA53.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation · Touchstone Foundation · Ashland Foundation · Lancaster Law Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Tecumseh Milestone 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 Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organization funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organization. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organization 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 37 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $247k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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