Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA
MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,800 to it, the largest being THE FRANCIS J DIXON FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,351 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,351 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- United Way of Lebanon County Inclocalportfolio match
- The Bishop Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Degenstein Charitable Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $2k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA’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
MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 52% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
59% of MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Lebanon County Inclocalportfolio matchPA · funds 21 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Bishop Foundationlocalportfolio matchPA · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Degenstein Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Activities Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles F Peters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E R Crawford Est Trust Fund a Xxx-Xx-Xxxxportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert C Hoffman Tw Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wright Promiseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shaffer Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Houser Family FoundationlocalPA · funds 9 organizations near you
- Wenger Foundation InclocalPA · funds 24 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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA
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.
Public support
100%
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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA: 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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA?
- MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,800 to it, the largest being THE FRANCIS J DIXON FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $37,800 in grants to MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA?
- THE FRANCIS J DIXON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKING A DIFFERENCE OF LEBANON PA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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