Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,641,026 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($830,350). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc does
Mission
Seeking to put god's love into action, lancaster area habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lancaster lebanon habitat for humanity relies on volunteer labor, gifted building materials, and partnerhsips with subcontractors to make home-build projects affordable for its low-income first-time homebuyers who have a need for housing (I.e. Their rental is not safe, warm, dry, or affordable.) the homebuyers contribute sweat equity hours and buy the home with a zero- interest mortgage. Habitat has the right of first refusal if the homebuyer ever chooses to sell, which can allow habitat to place a new habitat howmebuyer in the home.
$6,749,562 spent$3,307,181 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,749,562.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $7.0M to $16M (+131%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Phil Hess
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $179k → $432k.
15 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 55% · 2019 73% · 2020 41% · 2021 38% · 2022 35% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“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 LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
57% of LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.6M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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
91% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Habitat for Humanity International · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC?
- LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,641,026 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($830,350). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,641,026 in grants to LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $830,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANCASTER AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing