· Community foundation
York County Community Foundation
We create a vibrant york county by engaging donors, providing community leadership and investing in high impact initiatives while building endowment for future generations.
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.
The 197 grants below total $8,729,097 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,433,351 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $704,254 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $296k
- $10k–50k100 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k51 grants · $5.0M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN | $512,248 |
| YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $273,291 |
| KEYSTONE KIDSPACE | $263,159 |
| YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER | $256,960 |
| SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC | $250,000 |
| TROVESTREET LLC | $200,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA HERITAGE CORPORATION | $195,466 |
| UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY | $191,121 |
| YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA | $172,281 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF YORK COUNTY | $171,000 |
| GRETCHEN WOLF SWARTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $157,884 |
| APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $155,293 |
| YORK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $150,973 |
| YMCA OF THE ROSES | $145,803 |
| YORK CITY BUREAU OF HEALTH | $143,947 |
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, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of York County Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 55% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
218 repeat relationships — 166 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 26 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $793k 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
- YSYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +18% · 32% of their budget
- YCYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +262%
- YCYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +17%
Funded once
- HUHARRISBURG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +9%
- TTENFOLDone grant, 2021 · $376k · revenue +17%
- SASOUTHEASTERN ADAMS VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -31%
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.
We create a vibrant york county by engaging donors, providing community leadership and investing in high impact initiatives while building endowment for future generations.
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…
Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…
York hospital is a premier community teaching hospital providing quality, cost-effective health care services strongly supporting excellence in education, and offering essential services without regard for an individual's ability to pay.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
To be our region's trusted choice for the improvement of health and delivery of quality care throughout life. to be a regional healthcare provider for the citizens of york county and its contiguous counties with readily accessible high…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
York Land Trust is a nonprofit organization that protects and cares for significant natural lands and waterways in the greater York Maine area for the benefit of the community and the environment.
Penn-york opportunities, inc. is a not for profit organization that creates opportunities for all people regardless of their abilities by focusing on community involvement, personal achievement, lifelong learning, and employment.
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
The york county convention and visitors bureau, inc. (the bureau) plans and promotes programs designed to stimulate and increase the volume of tourist, visitor, vacation and convention business within york county, pennsylvania.
Leading the York County region to become the premier place to live, work, and conduct business in the Carolinas.
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 The Hahn Home. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
242 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. 242 of the 332 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 YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HANOVER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAHN HOME ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds GRETCHEN WOLF SWARTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BELL SOCIALIZATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS INC ↗
- Who funds YORK DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA HERITAGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FARM & NATURAL LANDS TRUST OF YORK CO ↗
- Who funds SUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF YORK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LOGOSWORKS ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE KIDSPACE ↗
- Who funds SPRING GARDEN BAND ↗
- Who funds TENFOLD ↗
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: Powder Mill Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · Memorial Health Fund · Kinsley Foundation · United Way of York County · White Rose Leadership Institute · Rice Family Foundation · The Graham Foundation · The W Dale Brougher Foundation · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler 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 Community 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.
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc — 28% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
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.