Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
YWCA LANCASTER
YWCA LANCASTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,847,595 to it, the largest being RESPECT TOGETHER ($2,369,148). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $14M
What YWCA Lancaster does
Mission
The YWCA Lancaster is a nonprofit organization with a mission to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child enrichment - YWCA Lancaster's child enrichment center is located in downtown lancaster and offers developmentally-appropriate activities for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, ages 6 weeks and older. YWCA Lancaster voluntarily participates in the pennsylvania keystone stars quality initiative earning a rating of 4 stars. YWCA Lancaster's school age child development program provides a safe place for kids and peace of mind for their families. The program offers care to children 5-12 years of age throughout the year. Before and after school care includes ample indoor and outdoor activities, homework time, nutritious snacks, and arts and crafts for students enrolled in school district of lancaster or penn manor school district. Kindergarten wrap-around program offers care for children enrolled in half-day kindergarten at all penn manor elementary schools. The program can be combined with before and/or after school care to provide all day care for these students. Mama la lechera is a no cost, post-partum support group offered to any community member seeking support with newborns and infants.
$3,166,401 spent$916,810 earned by the program63% of program spendingKepler hall residence program - kepler hall provides safe, affordable housing in 38 individual rooms. Six rooms are designated to serve single parents with their children in emergency housing situations. Twelve rooms are section 8 permanent housing for low-income individuals who qualify. The remaining rooms are long-term affordable rentals for individuals who pay independently for their accommodations.
$514,371 spent$137,384 earned by the program10% of program spendingSexual assault prevention and counseling center (sapcc) - is the designated rape crisis center for lancaster county. Services include medical advocacy, legal advocacy, prevention groups, counseling and the 24/7 rape crisis hotline. Counseling services and advocacy are provided to victim/survivors of sexual abuse and their significant others. Prevention and education is provided ot schools, businesses, institutions, faith-based groups and other community organizations to both support individuals and create culture change in efforts to prevent sexual violence.
$908,956 spent$365,569 earned by the program18% of program spendingCenter for racial and gender equity - the center is home for our key mission work and includes community engagement activities and events; training and educating and advocacy and campaigns. Signature events include the race against racism; dorothy height book club; listen, learn and lead; racial equity institute; black artist waystation; lancaster votes and more. New choices - new choices serves individuals in transition to achieve economic self-sufficiency through personal development, career guidance, and job training. The individualized program offers skills and resources in job seeking, interviewing, and resume writing. After completing the course, students are eligible for scholarship funds to pursue short-term education. More than 80% of 2021 new choices graduates were placed in employment, training, or continuing education programs last year.
$462,924 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,052,652.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $10M to $20M (+94%).
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 43% · 2018 42% · 2019 38% · 2020 46% · 2021 33% · 2022 42% · 2023 42% · 2024 45% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Stacie Blake
CEO
Board chair
Jasmine Kraybill
Chair - prop
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $336k → $488k.
7 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 YWCA LANCASTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
YWCA LANCASTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 YWCA LANCASTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 67% · 2019 72% · 2020 69% · 2021 83% · 2022 47% · 2023 54% — 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
44% of YWCA LANCASTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
54% of YWCA LANCASTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.7M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding YWCA LANCASTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$995k
- Department of Justice$582k
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 YWCA LANCASTER
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 YWCA LANCASTER: 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 YWCA LANCASTER?
- YWCA LANCASTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,847,595 to it, the largest being RESPECT TOGETHER ($2,369,148). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YWCA LANCASTER have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $5,847,595 in grants to YWCA LANCASTER, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YWCA LANCASTER?
- RESPECT TOGETHER is the largest funder on record, with $2,369,148 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YWCA LANCASTER 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 34 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