Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,243,523 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($2,922,850). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $9.2M
- Net assets
- $63M
What Lancaster Country Day School does
Mission
The mission of Lancaster Country Day School is to empower students to explore their passions, find purpose, and become the best versions of themselves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Deeply committed to the intellectual, creative, physical, and emotional growth of its students, Lancaster Country Day School seeks to provide rigourous, college preparatory academic program within a supportive environment, resulting in a community of globally-conscious, lifelong learners. Challenging students to look at the world in new ways, lcds has high academic and behavorial expectations of its students while providing extensive support to achieve those standards. Through close relationships among students and adults, the school encourages personal growth and trust, thereby fostering confident, articulate, andthoughtful individuals who can successfully interpret a complex and rapidly changing world. As a coeducational, independent school "under one roof" for students from preschool through twelfth grade lcds encourages close interaction among people of diverse backgrounds, striving to reflect the world as it truly exists. Respect for self, concern for others, commitment to community, and stewardship of the environment are hallmarks of a Lancaster Country Day School education. In addition to setting high expectations for academic excellence, the school urges both students and…
$17,856,562 spentof which $5,443,064 as grants$17,272,251 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,856,562.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $63M to $76M (+20%).
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $522k → $1.2M.
14 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 36% · 2019 50% · 2020 46% · 2021 56% · 2022 37% · 2023 51% — 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
55% of LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
99% of LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: 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 LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL?
- LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,243,523 to it, the largest being CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ($2,922,850). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $9,243,523 in grants to LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL?
- CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,922,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 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 51 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