FundersPennsylvania

Letort Trust Foundation 600001010

Mechanicsburg, PA · EIN 45-3582341. Reported 121 grants totalling $368,215 to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$368,215granted, 2021-2024
63organizations funded
60%of grantees funded again the next year
$281,288assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Letort Trust Foundation 600001010 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $5,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
48 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
41 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Erie Community FoundationErie, PA$67,015442024
Junior Achievement of South Central PaLancaster, PA$65,000442024
Bethesda MissionHarrisburg, PA$26,600442024
Joshua GroupHarrisburg, PA$21,700442024
Central Pennsylvania Food BankHarrisburg, PA$20,000442024
Pennsylvania Steam Academy Charter SchoolHarrisburg, PA$15,100332024
Harrisburg UniversityHarrisburg, PA$15,000332023
Harrisburg CredcHarrisburg, PA$13,000442024
The Young Women's Christian Association of York PaYork, PA$12,200332024
YWCA of Greater HarrisburgHarrisburg, PA$11,700222022
Leadership Harrisburg AreaHarrisburg, PA$10,300442024
Four Diamonds FundHershey, PA$9,000222022
Open Stage of HarrisburgHarrisburg, PA$6,500442024
Cranberry Township Community ChestCranberry Township, PA$5,900442024
Harrisburg University of Science and TechnologyHarrisburg, PA$5,000112024
Manna FoodbankAsheville, NC$5,000112024
New Hope Ministries IncDillsburg, PA$5,000112024
United Way of the Capital RegionEnola, PA$5,000222022
Joseph T Simpson Public LibraryMechanicsburg, PA$3,900442024
Eagle FoundationMechanicsburg, PA$3,200222022
Mountain Side Congregation Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's WitnessesHarrisburg, PA$3,200222022
Revived Soldiers UkraineStatline, NV$2,500112022
United Way WorldwideBoston, MA$2,500112022
Camp Hebron IncHalifax, PA$2,100332024
Community Check Up CenterHarrisburg, PA$2,100222022
Homeland CenterHarrisburg, PA$2,000222023
HokafiMechanicsburg, PA$1,750442024
Speranza Animal RescueMechanicsburg, PA$1,500222022
Girl Scouts in the Heart of PaHarrisburg, PA$1,400222023
American Heart AssociationLancaster, PA$1,300442024
Dillsburg Public LibraryDillsburg, PA$1,250332023
Als Association Western Pennsylvania ChapterMillvale, PA$1,000112022
Alzheimer's AssociationHarrisburg, PA$1,000112021
Animal Rescue League of Berks CountyBirdsboro, PA$1,000112021
CumcHarrisburg, PA$1,000112021
Dauphin County Library SystemHarrisburg, PA$1,000112021
Gly FoundationMechanicsburg, PA$1,000112024
Homeland HospiceHarrisburg, PA$1,000112024
The Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PA$1,000112023
YWCA of CarlisleCarlisle, PA$1,000112021
Hope Center Hagerstown Rescue MissionHagerstown, MD$900222023
Hospice of Central PaHarrisburg, PA$900222022
Operation MedicalHarrisburg, PA$900222023
Wheels for WomenShippensburg, PA$900112024
Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors IncCamp Hill, PA$700112022
CASA Charter SchoolHarrisburg, PA$500112021
Capital Area Greenbelt AssociationHarrisburg, PA$500112021
Hfcjlc Memorial Scholarship FundMillerstown, PA$500112021
Helen O Krause Animal Foundation IncMechancisburg, PA$500112021
Mike Tilley Nation FoundationLewisberry, PA$500112023
Pa Wounded Warriors IncCamp Hill, PA$500112021
Shalom HouseHarrisburg, PA$500112022
Tony's Team FoundationCarlisle, PA$500112024
American Cancer SocietyLemoyne, PA$400112023
Sperenza Animal RescueMechanicsburg, PA$400112023
United Way of PennsylvaniaLemoyne, PA$400112022
Bethany House of Cumberland County IncCarlisle, PA$300112022
Cumberland Valley Animal ShelterChambersburg, PA$300112024
Project Share of CarlisleCarlisle, PA$300112024
West Shore Wildlife Center IncDover, PA$300112024
York County Libraries Dillsburg Area Public LibraryDillsburg, PA$300112024
Colorectal Cancer AllianceWashington DC, DC$250112022
Lower Allen Fire Company No 1Camp Hill, PA$250112021

29 of 63 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 60%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 64 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
17 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
12 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
5 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Animal Welfare
5 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202136$103,650$1,000
202234$83,775$1,000
202325$87,595$1,000
202426$93,195$2,150

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 97% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$357K
North Carolina
$5K
Massachusetts
$2K
Nevada
$2K
Maryland
$900
District of Columbia
$250

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Foundation for Enhancing Communities17 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Capital Region16 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Letort Trust Foundation 600001010's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 900 Bent Creek Boulevard, Mechanicsburg, PA, 17050. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 45-3582341 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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