· Public charity
York County Bar Foundation
The mission of the YORK COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION, the charitable arm of the york county bar association, is to increase access to justice for all people, particularly those struggling with poverty and abuse, improve the administration of justice, promote public understanding of and respect for the law, support career development in the…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $192,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $203,625 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,525 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES | $92,250 |
| PENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| COUNTY OF YORK | $15,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA BAR FOUNDATION | $12,350 |
| LIFEPATH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +81% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- MLMIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $837k · revenue +81%
- PIPENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +196%
- CACHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY SOUTHERN PA DISTRICT - CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- APADVANTAGE PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $50k
- BLBRO2GO LLCone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
- COCITY OF YORKone grant, 2019 · $40k
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 york county bar association is a non-profit professional membership association of attorneys and judges. it exists to serve the needs of the lawyers, judges and public of york county. the association and its members have dedicated…
Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The arc of york county is committed to ensuring that all individuals with intellectual and other disabilities have the opportunity to choose where and how they learn, live, work and play.
The young women's christian association of carlisle, pennsylvania is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and girls and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. ywcas across the country are distinguished by…
The ywca hanover is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Community development resources
The crispus attucks association of york, pennsylvania is a comprehensive non-profit entity that provides education services, human services, community development and affordable housing that enhances the quality of life for a diverse…
Our mission is to reduce trauma for children and families through collaboration in child abuse investigations, prevention education, and advocacy.
The ywca lancaster is a nonprofit organization with a mission to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Society Southern Pa District - Church of the Brethren and the most unlike its peers is Do Moore Good. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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
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 MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRO2GO LLC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY SOUTHERN PA DISTRICT - CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN ↗
- Who funds TENFOLD ↗
- Who funds DIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YORK UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Do Moore Good ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET YORK INC ↗
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: York County Community Foundation · Memorial Health Fund · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · Rice Family Foundation · Wellspan Health · Powder Mill Foundation · The Graham Foundation · White Rose Leadership Institute · United Way of York County · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Lancaster County Community 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 York County Bar 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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