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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of BUHL REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY$25,000
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$25,000
BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$20,000
THIEL COLLEGE$15,000
ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS$10,000
SHENANGO VALLEY PRIDE PICNIC$10,000
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$10,000
JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY$10,000
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
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.

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Your 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 your 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%MERCER COUNTY COALITION FOR DRUG AWARENESS: $10k → 13%ZION EDUCATION CENTER: $90k → 13%FAMILY SERVICES OF NW PA: $10k → 13%ZION EDUCATION CENTER: $75k → 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

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.

Which US states your grants reach

OH
PA
CA
KY
WV
VA
AZ
TN
SC
GA

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you 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

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

  • 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 +195%

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

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.

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%4%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr17%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr17%46%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/79
the rest of the field
8%
935/12,050

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

58 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. 58 of the 120 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
41/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 · EducationCOMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY — $15,000 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $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 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 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 budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKEYSTONE ADOLESCENT CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetShenango Valley YMCA — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY — $12,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Carroll University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $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 budgetBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS OF MAHONING VALLEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mount Union — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaring Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHENANGO RIVER WATCHERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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 …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

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 Buhl Regional Health 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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
    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

    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.

    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 120 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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