White Rose Leadership Institute
York, PA · EIN 83-1246505. Reported 93 grants totalling $870,023 to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For White Rose Leadership Institute, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 65% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $7,832. Half of what it reported fell between $6,592 and $10,071; the smallest was $5,062 and the largest $30,412. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
10 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $100,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center Inc | York, PA | $85,691 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| York Symphony Orchestra | York, PA | $71,058 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| York County Food Bank | York, PA | $41,706 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| York County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | York, PA | $39,976 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Progress Council Inc | York, PA | $37,780 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Connections for Children Inc | York, PA | $36,529 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| York County History Center | York, PA | $35,606 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Keystone Kidspace | York, PA | $34,699 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dreamwrights Youth & Family Theatre | York, PA | $28,332 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Creative York | York, PA | $28,302 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Christopher Columbus Scholarship Fund Inc | York, PA | $26,463 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| York County Literacy Council | York, PA | $26,045 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pappus House | Thomasville, PA | $25,972 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Young Womens Christian Association | York, PA | $25,195 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Main Street York Inc | York, PA | $19,155 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Working Progress | York, PA | $18,167 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education | Hellam, PA | $17,620 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Human Life Services Inc | York, PA | $17,396 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Dillsburg, PA | $16,446 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Servants Inc | Red Lion, PA | $15,820 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| United Way of York County | York, PA | $14,895 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| York County Bar Foundation | York, PA | $14,186 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Olivia S House-a Grief and Loss Center for Children | York, PA | $12,271 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Katallasso Inc | York, PA | $11,821 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| York Art Association Inc | Sprngtsbry Tp, PA | $11,665 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Susquehanna Heritage Corporation | Wrightsville, PA | $11,306 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| York County Library System | York, PA | $11,230 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends & Neighbors of Pennsylvania Inc | York, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tabby Trappers | Chambersburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Theatre Arts for Everyone | York, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| York Builders Association Workforcenow Foundation Inc | York, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| York Fresh Food Farms | York, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family First Health Corporation | York, PA | $8,970 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leg Up Farm Inc | Mount Wolf, PA | $8,691 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| YMCA | York, PA | $7,666 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Windy Hill Senior Center Inc | Spring Grove, PA | $7,569 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Arc of York County Inc | York, PA | $6,972 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eichelberger Performing Arts Center | Hanover, PA | $6,328 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Movement York Inc | York, PA | $6,154 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| York Day Nursery Inc | York, PA | $5,737 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community Centre of York Pennsylvania | York, PA | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Leadership York | York, PA | $5,395 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bell Socialization Services Inc | York, PA | $5,364 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crispus Attucks Association of York Pennsylvania | York, PA | $5,083 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Program for Female Offenders of South Central Pennsylvania Inc | York, PA | $5,062 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
20 of 45 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 22 | $180,918 | $7,554 |
| 2021 | 21 | $193,549 | $7,666 |
| 2022 | 24 | $245,985 | $8,905 |
| 2023 | 26 | $249,571 | $8,743 |
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
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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 the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,832 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- 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 White Rose Leadership Institute's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 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: 37 W Philadelphia St, York, PA, 17401.
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