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York Community Foundation

To utilize charitable funds to strengthen and improve the york community for all its citizens

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$142k
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 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MArts & Culture$779kEducation$442kHealth$421kCrime & Legal$304kHuman Services$210kHousing & Shelter$181kCommunity Improvement$138kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $710,015, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,002,861 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $292,846 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $551k
$31,398
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEARTLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$142,226
EMMANUAL FAITH LUTHERAN SCHOOL$142,226
WESSELS LIVING HISTORY MUSEUM$91,367
GREENWOOD CEMETARY ASSOCIATION$75,000
YORK COUNTY AGING$50,000
YORK GENERAL FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN LEGION POST 19$39,737
UNICEF USA$31,398
YORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$31,068
HENDERSON HEALTH CARE$11,914
YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL$11,756
YORK COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$10,000
CITY OF YORK$10,000
YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT$7,726
YORK GENERAL$5,597
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GRESHAM COMMUNITY CLUB: $20k → 8%BLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 11%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 10 repeat orgs$925k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$2.9M
$518k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+7%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $407k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GC
    GREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +23% · 70% of their budget
  • YU
    YORK UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +54%
  • YG
    YORK GENERAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • NG
    NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION
    one grant, 2017 · $285k
  • HC
    HOLTHUS CONVENTION CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -84%
  • BV
    BLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +38%
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
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
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2
Yorkville Cemetery Association

Operation of white rose cemetery in york sc

Membership Benefit
3
York County Health Coalition

The york county health coalition seeks to develop a community based system of care that is pro-active and family centered. the coalition is dedicated to planning and implementing processes that promote prevention through education, to…

Community Improvement
4
York Bpoe Lodge 1024

To provide facilities for member activities and community service for area youth, veterans and residents

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5
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
6
The Grotto Community Center

To bring a space for collaboration between creatives and small business owners of all types to downtown york, pa.

Community Improvement
7
Adams County Historical Society

Services include providing public with educational resources including research, maps, photos, and historical news of adams county, nebraska.

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8
Sgt York Patriotic Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Hope Gospel Rescue Mission Inc

Hope gospel rescue mission is a christ centered ministry in york, nebraska. helping the hurting & homeless in the name of jesus christ.

Religion
10
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
11
Chamber of Commerce of Lawrence Kansas

Promote growth and economic prosperity by serving as the leading business advocate, cultivating leadership and facilitating connectivity.

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12
Norfolk Ymca Real Estate Holding Corporation

To acquire, finance, develop and lease to y.m.c.a., norfolk, nebraska (the ymca), the site at which the ymca is located. the mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York General Health Care Services; the most unlike its peers is Gresham Community Club. 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

16 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. 16 of the 25 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF YORK: $1,186,249 · OtherCITY OF YORKNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION: $285,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSIONGREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $225,000 · OtherGREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONYORK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $206,000 · OtherYORK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONHEARTLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $142,226 · OtherHEARTLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOLSEMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $142,226 · OtherEMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH+8 more: $301,244 · Other+8 moreWESSELS LIVING HISTORY FARM: $749,499 · EducationWESSELS LIVING HISTORY FARMYORK UNIVERSITY: $143,000 · EducationYORK UNIVERSITYYORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $31,068 · EducationYORK GENERAL AUXILIARY: $102,703 · HealthYORK GENERAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES: $100,000 · HealthHENDERSON HEALTH CARE SERVICES INC: $37,087 · HealthBLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGRESHAM COMMUNITY CLUB: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $31,398 · InternationalMCCOOL COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $15,000 · Community ImprovementMOSAIC: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,487,945Education$923,567Health$239,790Human Services$70,000International$31,398Community Improvement$15,000Housing & Shelter$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESSELS LIVING HISTORY FARM: $749,499 over 9y, 62% of budgetGREENWOOD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $225,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetYORK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $206,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY: $143,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYORK GENERAL AUXILIARY: $102,703 over 5y, 25% of budgetYORK GENERAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 19: $75,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHOLTHUS CONVENTION CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetBLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER YORK AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $48,350 over 1y, 15% of budgetHENDERSON HEALTH CARE SERVICES INC: $37,087 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $31,398 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $31,068 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGRESHAM COMMUNITY CLUB: $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMCCOOL COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMOSAIC: $15,000 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.

Victor E and Rosa M B…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 York Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from York Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to York Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to York Community Foundation 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 25 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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