Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER
LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,966,006 to it, the largest being THE CLARK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($746,250). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.0M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organizationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Fulton Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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 22% · 2018 18% · 2019 10% · 2020 1% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 4% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $403k → $168k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 DAY CARE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 DAY CARE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 32% · 2019 48% · 2020 55% · 2021 80% · 2022 35% · 2023 49% — 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
29% of LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
97% of LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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 20 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organizationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 30 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fulton Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 26 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Richard S & Ann B Barshinger Family Fdnshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 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
- Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trustshared funderslocalPA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Institute of Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ferree Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 47 organizations near you
- Shady Maple Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 55 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.
Organizations like LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER?
- LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,966,006 to it, the largest being THE CLARK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($746,250). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,966,006 in grants to LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER?
- THE CLARK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $746,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANCASTER DAY CARE CENTER 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 20funders 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