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Wellspan Health

York, PA · EIN 22-2517863. Reported 124 grants totalling $28.2M to 81 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

81organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$28.2Mgranted, 2020-2024
37%of grantees funded again the next year
73%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Wellspan Health, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E21Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 81 distinct organizations, with 73% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 37% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $12,022 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,735 and the largest $20.5M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
47 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
29 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
28 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
7 grants
$250,000 Or More
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
PhilhavenYork, PA$20.5M112020
York Health PlanYork, PA$2,000,000112020
Spiritrust Lutheran Home Care & HospiceChambersburg, PA$1,200,000112022
York County Food BankYork, PA$461,735542024
Lebanon County Christian MinistriesLebanon, PA$401,304542024
Community Health Council of Lebanon CountyLebanon, PA$361,500552024
Community Connections for Children IncYork, PA$250,000112024
Good Samaritan ServicesLancaster, PA$185,000552024
Central Pennsylvania Food BankHarrisburg, PA$150,000332024
Friends & Neighbors of Pennsylvania IncYork, PA$148,500442023
Lebanon CountyLebanon, PA$148,433112021
Family First Health CorporationYork, PA$132,000332023
Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center of Lebanon & SchLebanon, PA$125,000222024
York Union Rescue Mission IncYork, PA$110,240332023
Transitions of PaLewisburg, PA$100,000112024
Wilson CollegeChambersburg, PA$100,000112021
R E a L Life Community ServicesDenver, PA$80,000442024
Costa AcademyChambersburg, PA$75,000112021
Power Packs ProjectLancaster, PA$75,000222024
Coalition to Strengthen Americas HealthcareWashington, DC$70,000112024
Advantage ProgramYork, PA$62,000222024
Pennsylvania Recreation and Park SocietyState College, PA$57,900112024
Spanish American MulticulturalYork, PA$55,000112021
York Young RevolutionYork, PA$52,500112023
Penn State UniversityUniversity Park, PA$51,000112022
Mainstreet Waynesboro IncWaynesboro, PA$50,000112024
York County Community FoundationYork, PA$50,000112024
Katallasso IncYork, PA$48,000332024
Hanover Area YMCAHanover, PA$41,667112021
Crossnet MinistriesNew Holland, PA$40,000222024
South Central Community Action Program IncGettysburg, PA$40,000112023
Union Community CareLancaster, PA$40,000222022
Choices HealthcareLancaster, PA$35,000222023
County of YorkYork, PA$35,000112024
York Day Nursery IncYork, PA$35,000222024
Young Womens Christian Association of Gettysburg and Adams CountyGettysburg, PA$34,837112023
Lebanon Valley Volunteers in Medicine ClinicLebanon, PA$33,750212021
Program for Female Offenders of South Central Pennsylvania IncYork, PA$32,820112024
Latinos Unidos of YorkYork, PA$32,350112021
Penn Mar Organization IncFreeland, MD$30,100332024
AevidumLititz, PA$30,000112022
Better YorkYork, PA$30,000112022
Jewish Community Centre of York PennsylvaniaYork, PA$26,673112024
BRO2GO IncHarrisburg, PA$25,000112024
Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania IncCamp Hill, PA$25,000112024
Healthy Adams Bicycle-Pedestrian IncGettysburg, PA$25,000112021
Lebanon Fire Department First Aid and Safety PatrolLebanon, PA$25,000112021
Movement York IncYork, PA$25,000222022
New Hope Ministries IncDillsburg, PA$25,000112024
Servants IncRed Lion, PA$25,000112022
United Disabilities Services FoundationLancaster, PA$25,000112024
York City Parks ConservancyYork, PA$25,000112024
YMCAYork, PA$24,000112023
Parish Resource Center IncLancaster, PA$20,150112024
18 South Youth MinistriesRed Lion, PA$20,000222024
Mental Health America of Lancaster CountyLancaster, PA$20,000112023
Team Pennsylvania FoundationHarrisburg, PA$20,000222024
The Childrens Aid SocietyNew York, NY$18,000112020
Compass Mark IncLancaster, PA$15,000112024
Gettysburg Area Recreation AuthorityGettysburg, PA$15,000112022
Keystone Human ServicesHarrisburg, PA$15,000112024
Mt Pisgah Trinity United Methodist ChurchYork, PA$14,193112024
The Harrisburg Area Community College FoundationHarrisburg, PA$12,364112024
Lebanon Family Health Services IncLebanon, PA$12,022112021
Library System of Lancaster CountyLancaster, PA$11,285112021
York County Library SystemYork, PA$11,042112020
YWCA LancasterLancaster, PA$10,500112024
Eastern Pa Trans Equity Project IncOrefield, PA$10,000112023
Girls on the Run InternationalRaleigh, NC$10,000112020
Lebanon Valley Family YMCALebanon, PA$10,000112024
Redevelopment Authority of the County of LancasterLancaster, PA$10,000112024
U S-Ukraine FoundationFalls Church, VA$10,000112021
Windy Hill Senior Center IncSpring Grove, PA$10,000112022
Aarons AcresMillersville, PA$9,360112024
York Area Development CorporationYork, PA$8,686112024
The Hunter GroupYork, PA$8,300112020
Leg Up Farm IncMount Wolf, PA$8,095112020
Manos Unidas Hispanic-American Center IncGettysburg, PA$7,500112020
Valley Youth House CommitteeBethlehem, PA$7,500112021
York Health FoundationYork, PA$7,300112024
Juntos De Lebanon IncLebanon, PA$7,000112022

21 of 81 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 61 of 81 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
21 orgs
Health Care
9 orgs
Mental Health
5 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Recreation & Sports
4 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
Religion
3 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202014$22.7M$15,000
202126$1,096,742$25,000
202222$1,904,666$27,500
202321$937,489$33,500
202441$1,521,772$25,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

100% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Pennsylvania
$28.1M
District of Columbia
$70K
Maryland
$30K
New York
$18K
North Carolina
$10K
Virginia
$10K

Down to the city

York, PA
$24.2M
Chambersburg, PA
$1.4M
Lebanon, PA
$1.1M
Lancaster, PA
$447K
Harrisburg, PA
$222K
Gettysburg, PA
$122K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc34 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund34 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program30 shared recipientsYork County Community Foundation27 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc26 shared recipientsLancaster County Community Foundation21 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Wellspan Health's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 41 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 2767, York, PA, 17405.

EIN 22-2517863 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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