FundersPennsylvania

Conewago Enterprises Charitable

Hanover, PA · EIN 27-3915004. Reported 58 grants totalling $410,239 to 45 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$410,239granted, 2021-2024
45organizations funded
0%of grantees funded again the next year
$783,546assets, 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. Conewago Enterprises Charitable 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 $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
14 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
29 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Adams Rescue MissionGettysburg, PA$250,000112024
Vision Resources of Central PaHarrisburg, PA$25,250112021
Thrive MinistriesHanover, PA$14,000222024
House of His CreationLititz, PA$10,000222024
Peniel MinistriesJohnstown, PA$10,000222024
American Bikers on a MissionFairfield, PA$5,000112021
Focus Services FoundationEast Berlin, PA$5,000112022
Hanover First Church of GodHanover, PA$5,000112022
Manos Unidas Hispanic American Center IncGettysburg, PA$5,000112022
Peniel Ministries InternationalEphrata, PA$5,000112022
Ruth's Harvest GettysburgGettysburg, PA$5,000112022
Saint Teresa of Calcutta Catholic SchoolMcsherrystown, PA$5,000112022
Women's Flat Track Roller Derby AssociationAustin, TX$5,000112022
Diffusion Dance CompanyYork, PA$4,400112022
For the Love of a VeteranHanover, PA$4,000112023
Hanover Soccer ClubHanover, PA$4,000112024
Special Olympics of PennsylvaniaGettysburg, PA$4,000112023
The Thunderbolt Education FoundationLittlestown, PA$4,000222024
Upper Adams School DistrictBiglerville, PA$3,788222024
Occupation Development CenterLancaster, PA$3,500112024
Adams County Community FoundationGettysburg, PA$2,500112022
Black Rose Rollers IncErie, PA$2,500112023
Fairfield Area High School National Honors SocietyFairfield, PA$2,500222024
Gettysburg CaresGettysburg, PA$2,500222024
Pennsylvania Cystic Fibrosis FoundationHarrisburg, PA$2,500222024
Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward EducationLemoyne, PA$2,000112022
Roots for BootsNex Oxford, PA$2,000112021
Shoshonean Rod and Gun ClubAspers, PA$2,000222024
Biglerville Youth Wrestling ClubAspers, PA$1,500222024
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationHarrisburg, PA$1,250112022
Hanover High SchoolHanover, PA$1,250332024
Sg Mini-ThonSpring Grove, PA$1,008222024
Adams County Economic Education FoundationGettysburg, PA$1,000112024
Gettysburg Midget Football and CheerGettysburg, PA$1,000112024
Gettysburg Montessori Charter SchoolGettysburg, PA$1,000112023
Izaak Walton League of AmericaDallastown, PA$1,000112023
New Oxford High SchoolNew Oxford, PA$1,000112023
Speranza Animal RescueMechanicsburg, PA$1,000112023
American Heart AssociationHarrisburg, PA$778112021
Penn State ThonUniversity Park, PA$515112024
Four DiamondsHershey, PA$500112022
Hanover Area Junior ChamberHanover, PA$500112022
James Gettys ElementaryGettysburg, PA$500112023
Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12Nex Oxford, PA$500112024
York Area Down Syndrome AssociationYork, PA$500112023

12 of 45 (27%) 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 0%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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.

Plus 75 grants to individuals totalling $778,902 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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 21 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
5 grants
Religion
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Education
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20217$44,528$2,000
202215$47,650$4,400
202317$34,250$1,000
202419$283,811$1,250

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. 99% 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
$405K
Texas
$5K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. 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 Conewago Enterprises Charitable'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: 660 Edgegrove Road, Hanover, PA, 17331. 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 27-3915004 · 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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