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COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,274,742 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($6,597,291). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trustshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Harry C Trexler Estateshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 89% · 2018 90% · 2019 81% · 2020 80% · 2021 82% · 2022 82% · 2023 79% · 2024 81% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $885k → $1.2M.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 52% · 2019 54% · 2020 51% · 2021 87% · 2022 75% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trustshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundationlocalportfolio matchPA · funds 36 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Harry C Trexler Estateshared fundersPA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Community Action Partnership Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Discovery of Virginia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parents as Teachers National Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Childhood Resource Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nc Childportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fund for Women and Girlsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Geisinger Health Planportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $88.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$85.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.6M
- Department of Justice$650k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC?
- COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,274,742 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($6,597,291). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $9,274,742 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC?
- PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $6,597,291 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing