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Armstrong County Community Foundation
The foundation develops, manages and distributes charitable funding to meet existing and changing community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $616,109 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,137,342 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $521,233 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $367k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $202k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $112,556 |
| RICHARD G SNYDER YMCA | $89,933 |
| LUTHERAN SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION INC | $37,158 |
| ARMSTRONG COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $31,681 |
| ARMSTRONG SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIO | $26,100 |
| HAVIN | $24,096 |
| HOSE CO NO 6 KITTANNING | $22,895 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $18,751 |
| GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $17,668 |
| FORD CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $17,090 |
| ARTS ON THE ALLEGHENY | $15,525 |
| SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP VFD | $15,000 |
| WORTHINGTON-WEST FRANKLIN VFD | $15,000 |
| VISION TO LEARN | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TTThe Trinity Christian School Non-Profit Corporation6× · 2019–2024 · $423k · revenue +32%
- EAEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $177k · revenue +326%
- ACARMSTRONG COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +66% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- PCPENN CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue -48%
- AHArmstrong Health & Education Foundationone grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue -62%
- HKHIS KIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.
Operate a public library
The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
Provide firefighter services for Arnoldsburg and surrounding communties
To provide fire and ambulance (and other emergency support) for emergency calls for the City of Lower Burrell, PA which has approximately 14,000 residents.
Public lending library
Acmh is committed to improving the emotional and physical health of its patients through superior clinical care and the compassionate management of illness and disability.
Provided Fire & Rescue Services to Alum Bank, PA and surrounding area.
Volunteer fire company
Provide fire protection for over 100 members
Provide volunteer fire protection to derry township, dauphin county, pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armstrong County Community Action Agency and the most unlike its peers is Family Acts Inc. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 35% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 61 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RICHARD G SNYDER YMCA ↗
- Who funds The Trinity Christian School Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMSTRONG COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELPING ALL VICTIMS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Ford City Public Library ↗
- Who funds PARKER PERSONAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ARMSTRONG COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds WORTHINGTON WEST FRANKLIN VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Armstrong Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds Armstrong School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Hose Co 6 Kittanning ↗
- Who funds HOSE COMPANY 1 OF FORD CITY PA ↗
- Who funds Armstrong Health & Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds PORTERSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FORT ARMSTRONG HORSEMENS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Butler County Association for the Blind ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds LOWER KISKI AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Snyder Charitable Foundation David E Snyder Trustee · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Elmer & Annabelle Snyder Foundation Mark a Snyder Co-Trustee · The Sedwick Charitable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Aetna Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Armstrong County Community Foundation 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.
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.
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