Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,293,123 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($6,597,291). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Community Action Partnership of Lancaster County Inc does
Mission
Advancing prosperity throughout lancaster county by activating community, mobilizing resources, and amplifying partnership to ensure everyone thrives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education and childhood development programs include early head start, head start, pre-k counts, child care, and parents as teachers. This continuum of "thrive to five" services helps to ensure that infants and children living in or at risk for poverty receive quality care and instruction that will help them develop cognitively, socially, and emotionally and thrive in school and in life.
$15,988,876 spent53% of program spendingHousehold stability activities aim to mitigate the effects of poverty by providing eligible individuals and families with utility payment assistance, housing assistance, and child care subsidy. Additionally, rise (resilience inspiration strength empowerment) coaches work with families develop and pursue goals to reach economic prosperity.
$3,396,228 spentof which $319,974 as grants$1,674,208 earned by the program11% of program spendingHealth and nutrition services provide healthy foods to individuals and to food banks throughout lancaster county, as well as nutrition education to low income children and families. Wic provides education, breastfeeding support, and food vouchers particularly to women, infants, and children five and under.
$7,675,158 spentof which $967,668 as grants$2,599,388 earned by the program25% of program spendingSafety and empowerment serves survivors of domestic violence with safe housing, legal services, counseling, and a 24 hour hotline. Crispus attucks community center offers programs events which preserve the african american heritage and strives to promote community prosperity, and physical and mental health.
$3,390,829 spentof which $141,350 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,451,091.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $11M to $12M (+10%).
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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Vanessa Philbert
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 24 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 23 of 24 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
47% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 states is 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.
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· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
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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 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,293,123 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 24 organizations giving $9,293,123 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.
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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 24 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing