· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of York County Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 55%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.…
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.
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.
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.
Leading the York County region to become the premier place to live, work, and conduct business in the Carolinas.
How this is measured
242 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization York County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from York County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc: 28% of income from government
- Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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