Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

161
foundations with a Lancaster address
$74.5M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
24
say they accept unsolicited
$9,115
median grant

Grantlas lists 161 foundations that gave a Lancaster, Pennsylvania address on their tax filing — 156 private foundations and 5 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $74.5 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 24 of them (15%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Lancaster foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 161 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
High FoundationAccepts$14M$14M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Clark Associates Charitable FoundationAccepts$2,000$6.8M$100–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Steinman FoundationAccepts$10,000$4.6M$500–$7MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
R Dale & Frances M Hughes Foundation 47f100011Accepts$72,250$2.3M$13,251–$319,900FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ferree FoundationAccepts$18,460$1.1M$3,250–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Willis and Elsie Shenk FoundationAccepts$5,000$458,500$1,000–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Anne B Sweigart Charitable FoundationAccepts$5,000$353,500$2,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gamber FoundationAccepts$10,000$280,550$3,000–$30,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Reese Foundation 47f055017Accepts$7,500$250,000$2,500–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kalas FoundationAccepts$2,500$172,875$500–$10,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Center for Research on Women andAccepts$85,987$171,974One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Robbins-Shuman Schlrshp Fd Tw 47f094016Accepts$2,600$82,400$50–$13,700FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Tecumseh Milestone FoundationAccepts$4,000$75,500$2,500–$20,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
H B Alexander Foundation IncAccepts$3,000$54,000$500–$20,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Paideia Scholarship FoundationAccepts$665$48,795$95–$1,795FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Livingston Trout & Mellinger Medical ResearchAccepts$12,226$30,564$9,169–$15,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Riggs-Conard Trust Fund 35h001014Accepts$2,812$23,152$750–$5,624FY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
Julia Moran 47f053012 TrustAccepts$8,701$17,402One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles R & Elizabeth Wagner Charitable TrustAccepts$4,500$9,000$3,000–$6,000FY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
The William S Rothermel FoundationAccepts$113$3,444$100–$2,294FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Frank & Julia Lehman Educational FundAccepts$1,000$3,000One amountFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Cora Martin Weeber Trust Under Will 47f059019Accepts$400$2,800One amountFY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
Martz Scholarship 47f003017Accepts$864$2,592One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ginko FoundationAccepts$1,000$1,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lancaster County Community FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$18,695Over $5k only$15M$5,020–$1.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.