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Buhl Regional Health Foundation

To identify and address the diverse health care needs of the region: by promoting partnerships, programs, capacity building and grants which focus and invest in all people impacted by health related needs throughout their lives.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$2.6MRecreation & Sports$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$426kFood & Nutrition$322kYouth Development$316kCommunity Improvement$281kCrime & Legal$202kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $132k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $211k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$7,360
Median grant
9
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHENANGO VALLEY FOUNDATION - SHENANGO VALLEY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT$1,500,000
BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER$543,718
COMMUNITY RECREATION OF NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY$75,000
ZION EDUCATION CENTER$69,975
BUHL PARK CORPORATION$31,000
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$25,000
BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC$25,000
SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$20,000
THIEL COLLEGE$15,000
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY$10,000
PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN UNIVERSITY$10,000
JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY$10,000
SHENANGO VALLEY PRIDE PICNIC$10,000
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%YMCA OF FRANKLIN & GROVE CITY: $850k → 13%POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $5k → 19%YOUNGSTOWN BLUE COATS: $5k → 16%KEYSTONE ADOLESCENT CENTER: $25k → 13%BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC: $25k → 13%BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER: $23k → 13%BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC: $16k → 13%BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER: $15k → 13%BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC: $10k → 13%LAKEVIEW AREA HELPING HANDS CENTER INC: $5k → 13%MERCER COUNTY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COMMISSION: $650 → 13%ZION EDUCATION CENTER: $90k → 13%MERCER COUNTY COALITION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $10k → 13%ZION EDUCATION CENTER: $75k → 13%FAMILY SERVICES OF NW PA: $10k → 13%ZION EDUCATION CENTER: $70k → 13%ZION EDUCATION CENTER: $61k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MERCER COUNTY: $5k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MERCER COUNTY: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MERCER COUNTY: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MERCER COUNTY: $1k → 13%SHENANGO VALLEY URBAN LEAGUE: $200 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
PA
CA
KY
WV
VA
AZ
TN
SC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 35 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
54

Total granted

$3.3M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+16%

Still filing today

57%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BC
    BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER
    4× · 2018–2024 · $889k · revenue +37% · 27% of their budget
  • ZE
    ZION EDUCATION CENTER
    4× · 2019–2024 · $295k · revenue +117%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY
    4× · 2019–2023 · $199k · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS
    one grant, 2023 · $850k · revenue -15%
  • VS
    VALLEY SHENANGO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +58% · 88% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
5
York College of Pennsylvania

York college prepares graduates for fulfilling, productive, and purposeful lives by providing high quality programs of study supported by relevant real-world experiences. continued on schedule o.as a rich and diverse community of educators…

Education
6
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
7
Geneva College

Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.

Education
8
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
9
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
10
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio; the most unlike its peers is Caring Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
42/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHENANGO VALLEY FOUNDATION - SHENANGO VALLEY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT: $1,500,000 · OtherSHENANGO VALLEY FOUNDATION - SHENANGO VALLEY HEALTH IMPROVEMENTBUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER: $888,718 · OtherBUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $150,372 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY: $198,500 · Other+72 more: $1,151,575 · Other+72 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS: $850,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…ZION EDUCATION CENTER: $295,100 · Human ServicesZION EDUCATION CENTERBUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC: $88,500 · Human ServicesBUILDING BLOCKS CHILD…+10 more: $69,750 · Human Services+10 morePHN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $325,906 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN OHIO: $21,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF LAWRENCE COUNTY: $263,961 · HealthMAPLE TREE CANCER ALLIANCE: $75,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $25,000 · Health+4 more: $27,720 · HealthCOMMUNITY RECREATION OF NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY INC: $289,597 · Recreation & SportsSKYLINE SUMMIT PARK & RECREATION: $62,900 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE: $120,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationGEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC: $25,000 · EducationTHIEL COLLEGE: $22,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY: $15,000 · Education+7 more: $42,500 · EducationVALLEY SHENANGO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $250,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP OF MERCER COUNTY: $22,500 · Community Improvement
Other$3,889,165Human Services$1,303,350Philanthropy$441,906Health$391,681Recreation & Sports$358,497Education$309,500Community Improvement$272,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER: $888,718 over 4y, 27% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS: $850,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPHN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $325,906 over 4y, 14% of budgetZION EDUCATION CENTER: $295,100 over 4y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITY RECREATION OF NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY INC: $289,597 over 2y, 13% of budgetVALLEY SHENANGO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $250,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY: $198,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE: $120,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetBUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC: $88,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $77,600 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMAPLE TREE CANCER ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetKEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION: $72,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUHL PARK CORPORATION: $65,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSKYLINE SUMMIT PARK & RECREATION: $62,900 over 1y, 72% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCE OF PEACE CENTER: $42,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY: $37,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE JUNIOR REPUBLIC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKEYSTONE ADOLESCENT CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHENANGO VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: $23,360 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTHIEL COLLEGE: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShenango Valley YMCA: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $12,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCER COUNTY COALITION FOR DRUG AWARENESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MERCER COUNTY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $7,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInspiring Minds: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN BLUE COATS: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLAKEVIEW AREA HELPING HANDS CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF MAHONING VALLEY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUniversity of Mount Union: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANGO RIVER WATCHERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCaring Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …James Frances McCandl…United Way of Mercer …The Pittsburgh Founda…Tj Kavanagh Foundatio…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Firstenergy FoundationAurora R Kittredge Ch…Lindsey E C for Linds…Winner Family Foundat…Northwest Institute o…
Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern OhioPA82.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · James Frances McCandless Trust · United Way of Mercer County · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Aurora R Kittredge Charitable Trust · Lindsey E C for Lindsey Char Fd-Tr · Winner Family Foundation · Northwest Institute of Research

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Buhl Regional Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buhl Regional Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    21report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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