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Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation
The foundation serves clarion, forest and venango counties to develop, manage, and disrtibute funding to meet the present and future needs of the communities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $475k
- $250k+1 grant · $499k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY | $499,270 |
| FRANKLIN CIVIC OPERETTA ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| FRANKLIN CIVIC OPERETTA ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| ECCLES-LESHER MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $98,000 |
| OIL REGION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $76,851 |
| OIL CITY ARTS COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| ALLEGHENY VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| OIL CITY LIBRARY | $31,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN ROOFING CO INC | $24,949 |
| NORTHWESTERN ROOFING CO INC | $24,949 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,285 |
| FRANKLIN CIVIC OPERETTA ASSOCIATION | $15,264 |
| COOPERSTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| FRANKLIN ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SCENIC RIVERS YMCA | $9,724 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 43 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION4× · 2018–2024 · $750k · revenue +238% · 40% of their budget
- OROIL REGION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $249k · revenue +64%
- VAVENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE5× · 2018–2023 · $238k · revenue +21% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- HAHEETER AND ASSOCIATESone grant, 2020 · $115k
- OCOIL CITY MAIN STREET PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $90k
- TETRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $82k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Local volunteer fire department providing fire protection and rescue services to the citizens of romney wv and surrounding areas.
To promote the study of the history of venango county and its general area and to develop an interest in the study of venango county and its citizens.
The purposes for which the fire company was founded are: (1) to afford all possible protection against personal injury and/or property damage resulting from fire and other catastrophe; (2) to provide assistance to persons threatened or…
Volunteer fire company
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To provide fire protection and emergency rescue services to those in vernon township and surrounding areas of crawford county in pennsylvania. the organization ceased operations related to fire protection and emergency rescue services in…
Provide emergency medical services and fire runs Training of volunteer EMS and fire personnel maintenance and repair of equipment.
Volunteer fire company
Non profit volunteer fire department for the city of vienna, wv and surrounding areas. committed to educating communities about fire and safety.
Community ambulance service serving residents in the greater bloomsburg, pennsylvania area
Volunteer fire and emergency medical services
How this is measured
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 153 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION ↗
- Who funds OIL REGION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN CIVIC OPERETTA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds THE SCENIC RIVERS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Mar-Lu-Ridge Camp and Retreat Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds VENANGO COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES OF VENANGO COUNTY INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust · Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw · Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial · Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable Trust · McElhattan Foundation · Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Edith C Justus Tuw · Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc · Upmc Group · Nelson Eleanor & Rudolph-Char Tr · Eileen J Luce Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
- Maryland Symphony Orchestra Inc: 5% of income from government
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts: 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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