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1889 Foundation Inc

To support innovative programs and initiatives that improve and transform the overall health and wellness of our region.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$18MHousing & Shelter$2.5MArts & Culture$2.2MEducation$2.0MHuman Services$993kYouth Development$727kCommunity Improvement$710kRecreation & Sports$403kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $3,988,842 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,229,695 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $240,853 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $883k
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.9M
$52,340
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR POPULATION HEALTH$1,000,000
HOSANNA INDUSTRIES INC$500,000
GREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA$462,000
HYNDMAN AREA HEALTH CENTER INC$345,000
UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES$331,123
ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY RESOURCE PROGRAM INC$255,500
PITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION$175,000
SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES EMS COUNCIL INC$120,000
DLP CONEMAUGH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER LLC$100,979
FLOOD CITY BOXING ACADEMY INC$100,000
WOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC$100,000
LEARNING LAMP INC$100,000
VETERAN COMMUNITY INTIATIVES$75,000
PENNSYLVANIA RURAL ARTS ALLIANCE$60,000
CAMBRIA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC$52,340
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $417k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EASTER SEALS WESTERN & CENTRAL PA: $20k → 11%HOSPICE PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%EASTER SEALS WESTERN & CENTRAL PA: $15k → 11%HOSPICE PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%HOSPICE PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%HOSPICE PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID HOME PROGRAMS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $15k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AID HOME PROGRAMS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $15k → 14%SMALL TOWN HOPE INC: $8k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $8k → 16%VICTIM SERVICES INC: $5k → 16%ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY RESOURCE PROGRAM INC: $256k → 16%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF CAMBRIA COUNTY: $20k → 16%ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY RESOURCE PROGRAM INC: $17k → 16%ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY RESOURCE PROGRAM INC: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF CAMBRIA COUNTY: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$27M · 47 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
25

Total granted

$27M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+26%

Still filing today

81%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $6.4M · revenue +164%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +7% · 39% of their budget
  • GJ
    GREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +39% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • RS
    RICHLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $574k
  • CC
    CAMBRIA COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2021 · $108k
  • JS
    JOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health
2
Central Penn Business Group On Health

Central business group on health advocates for the appropriate balance between cost and quality of employee healthcare in lancaster county by providing education on healthcare issues, promoting cooperation among payers, providers and…

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3
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
4
Southcentral Pa Area Health Education Center

Recruit and retain health care professionals, improve access to health care and evaluate public health needs.

Health
5
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
6
South Central Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provide emergency medical services.

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7
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
8
Pocono Health System

We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.

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9
Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation

To preserve, facilitate, promote and foster economic development within cumberland county and the surrounding regions, by providing integrated economic development and tourism marketing services to, and on behalf of, the citizens of the…

Community Improvement
10
Center for Community Action

The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…

Housing & Shelter
11
Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association

The rehabilitation and community providers association (association) was established to unite agencies, entities, and facilities who are in the business of providing quality health, human, and rehabilitative services, including but not…

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12
Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank

The central pennsylvania blood bank (cpbb) is a community based blood program committed to providing a quality blood supply, responsive to community needs, in a cost effective manner. cpbb works to promote, secure, and coordinate 100% of…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cambria County Child Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seads of Love. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Residential CareSenior Affordable HousingDisability Services & Suppo…Veterans Social & Support O…Youth Recreation and Campin…Parks & Urban Land Conserva…Pittsburgh Community Servic…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsEmergency Ambulance ServicesCommunity Development & You…Healthcare Professional Ass…Regional Economic Developme…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%6%<5yr12%13%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr20%31%20–35yr17%20%35–55yr17%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%10%<5yr12%3%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr20%37%20–35yr17%38%35–55yr17%10%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/71
the rest of the field
7%
829/11,149

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC — $4,759,485 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INCGREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA — $2,549,997 · OtherGREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCADLP CONEMAUGH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER — $838,258 · OtherDLP CONEMAUGH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTERRICHLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT — $574,000 · OtherWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC — $502,500 · OtherPITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION — $425,000 · Other+46 more — $2,854,770 · Other+46 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $6,362,048 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYTHE LEARNING LAMP INC — $786,313 · EducationTHE LEARNING LAMP INC+3 more — $227,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULATION HEALTH — $2,583,406 · HealthCENTER FOR POPUL…HYNDMAN AREA HEALTH CENTER — $995,000 · HealthHYNDMAN AREA HEA…PATHWAYS COMMUNITY HUB INSTITUTE INC — $220,000 · HealthLAUREL HIGHLANDS ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDA — $180,000 · Health+8 more — $333,380 · Health+8 moreHosanna Industries Inc — $2,000,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER — $1,215,000 · Arts & CultureJOHNSTOWN AREA HERITAGE ASSOCIATION — $302,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $55,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN — $587,647 · PhilanthropyPENNSYLVANIA HIGHLANDS CC FOUNDATION — $111,000 · PhilanthropyVISION TOGETHER 2025 INC — $260,000 · Community ImprovementJOHNSTOWN AREA REGIONAL INDUSTRIES — $200,000 · Community Improvement
Other$12,504,010Education$7,375,361Health$4,311,786Housing & Shelter$2,000,000Arts & Culture$1,572,000Philanthropy$698,647Community Improvement$460,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $6,362,048 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC — $4,759,485 over 9y, 39% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULATION HEALTH — $2,583,406 over 3y, 79% of budgetGREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA — $2,549,997 over 5y, 50% of budgetHosanna Industries Inc — $2,000,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetTHE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER — $1,215,000 over 4y, 68% of budgetHYNDMAN AREA HEALTH CENTER — $995,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTHE LEARNING LAMP INC — $786,313 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN — $587,647 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC — $502,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetPITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION — $425,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA RURAL ARTS ALLIANCE — $399,000 over 8y, 59% of budgetJOHNSTOWN AREA HERITAGE ASSOCIATION — $302,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetAlternative Community Resource Program Inc — $287,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVISION TOGETHER 2025 INC — $260,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetFLOOD CITY BOXING ACADEMY INC — $250,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetPATHWAYS COMMUNITY HUB INSTITUTE INC — $220,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetJOHNSTOWN AREA REGIONAL INDUSTRIES — $200,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetLAUREL HIGHLANDS ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDA — $180,000 over 7y, 80% of budgetVETERAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC — $176,500 over 5y, 23% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENNSYLVANIA — $165,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INC — $127,585 over 2y, 13% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HIGHLANDS CC FOUNDATION — $111,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetHOPE 4 JOHNSTOWN INC — $105,650 over 2y, 63% of budgetCAMBRIA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $89,340 over 3y, 10% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $82,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $50,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetHIGHLANDS HEALTH — $44,795 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCAMBRIA COUNTY BACKPACK PROJECT — $40,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIA COUNTY STUDENT HOCKEY LEAGUE — $36,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBEGINNINGS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Childrens Aid Home Programs of Somerset County Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCRESSON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $26,598 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSeads of Love — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortage Area Ambulance Association — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF CAMBRIA COUNTY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOSPICE PROMISE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCAMBRIA AND SOMERSET COUNTIES CONSERVANCY — $18,500 over 1y, 35% of budgetCAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION INC — $16,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSOMERSET COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION — $15,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity — $13,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVICTIM SERVICES INC — $12,620 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Assoc of Lions - Cresson — $10,842 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetSMALL TOWN HOPE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ORGAN RECOVERY AND EDUCATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …United Way of the Sou…Lee Initiatives IncDavid a Glosser Found…Firstenergy FoundationNorthwest Charitable …Concurrent Technologi…Ctc FoundationThe Jacob Fend Founda…Riggs Family Foundati…McKinney Charitable F…Highmark Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater JohnstownPA90.3× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · United Way of the Southern Alleghenies Inc · Lee Initiatives Inc · David a Glosser Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Concurrent Technologies Corporation · Ctc Foundation · The Jacob Fend Foundation · Riggs Family Foundation · McKinney Charitable Foundation · Highmark Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 1889 Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to 1889 Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to 1889 Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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