Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,332,287 to it, the largest being THE SERAPH FOUNDATION INC 6018-01-41 ($2,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Lancaster General Health Foundation does
Mission
The Lancaster General Health Foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, including lancaster general hospital, lancaster general medical group, the heart group of lancaster general health, and lancaster general health columbia center, each of which is a section 501(c)(3) organization and a public charity described in either section 509(a)(1) or section 509(a)(2) of the code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation raises funds to support the work of the healthcare system of lancaster general health. Thanks to generous community donors, the foundation has helped fund innovative new treatments, support patients in need, strengthen the level of care, and improve the patient experience to raise the collective bar for healthcare services in the lancaster region. All gifts to the foundation stay local, and 100% of donations go to the funding area intended by the donor. This means the foundation can significantly impact funding cancer research, expanding pediatric care, increasing behavioral health services, and providing more access to women's health services.
$0 spent$32,154 earned by the program
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $15M to $4.2M (−72%).
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.
96% of LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jennifer L Groff
Executive Director
Board chair
Joanne B Ladley
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $115k → $361k.
11 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $75k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
43% 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 GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 54% · 2019 75% · 2020 78% · 2021 80% · 2022 29% · 2023 42% — 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
23% of LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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 GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 94 related entities
- The Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Inst · exempt
- Carl V S Patterson Irr · exempt
- Chester County Hospital & Health System · exempt
- Clinical Care Associates of Uphs · exempt
- Lancaster General Health · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: 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 GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,332,287 to it, the largest being THE SERAPH FOUNDATION INC 6018-01-41 ($2,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $5,332,287 in grants to LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- THE SERAPH FOUNDATION INC 6018-01-41 is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION 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 35 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