South Carolina · Nonprofit
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,181 to it, the largest being The Childrens Trust Fund of SC ($457,681). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Leadership Kershaw Foundationlocal
- Edwill B Miller Trust Uwportfolio match
- York County Bar Foundationportfolio 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $53k → $130k.
From the IRS filings of The Lancaster County Partners for Youth’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
The Lancaster County Partners for Youth leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 The Lancaster County Partners for Youth.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 81% · 2021 56% · 2022 67% · 2023 62% — 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
50% of The Lancaster County Partners for Youth's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
96% of The Lancaster County Partners for Youth's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 374 organizations that share them.
- Leadership Kershaw FoundationlocalGA · funds 10 organizations near you
- Edwill B Miller Trust Uwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- York County Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bob Hoffman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyoming County United Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Touchstone Foundation Supporting Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Lancaster Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Partnerships for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Paportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding The Lancaster County Partners for Youth receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.4M on record.
- Department of Education$25.6M
- Department of Justice$775k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like The Lancaster County Partners for Youth
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Lancaster County Partners for Youth: 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 The Lancaster County Partners for Youth?
- The Lancaster County Partners for Youth (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,181 to it, the largest being The Childrens Trust Fund of SC ($457,681). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Lancaster County Partners for Youth have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $633,181 in grants to The Lancaster County Partners for Youth, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Lancaster County Partners for Youth?
- The Childrens Trust Fund of SC is the largest funder on record, with $457,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Lancaster County Partners for Youth find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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