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Central Pennsylvania Community Foundation
Central pennsyvania community foundation encourages and effectively manages charitable giving
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA COMMUNITY 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 47 grants below total $924,553 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,570,037 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $645,484 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 $10k13 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $523k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $314k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $77,674 |
| CENTRAL PA FOOD BANK HARRISBURG | $65,128 |
| HUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER | $62,500 |
| CENTRAL PA HUMANE SOCIETY | $57,384 |
| BISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $51,750 |
| HOPE GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH | $37,000 |
| THE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY | $34,000 |
| GIRLS NIGHT OUT ALTOONA | $30,000 |
| ALTOONA AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $27,877 |
| JAGGARD FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $27,377 |
| ALTOONA RENAISSANCE TEAM INC | $23,251 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $23,000 |
| TYRONE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $21,197 |
| UPMC WESTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,750 |
| DIG DOG USA LLC | $20,475 |
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, $529k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 18 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- HCHUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $479k · revenue +32% · 33% of their budget
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +63%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $266k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- THTyrone Hospitalone grant, 2017 · $270k · revenue -11%
- COCITY OF ALTOONAone grant, 2020 · $110k
- ACANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWABgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $91k · revenue +70% · 89% of their budget
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.
Public lending library
Public lending library
Annie halenbake ross library serves the citizens of clinton county, pennsylvania by providing books and other materials for reading, study or reference, and other services.
Public lending library
Public lending library
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…
Operation of a public library which provides books, videos, periodicals and other eductional materials for area residents to use an borrow.
Diagnosis and treatment of, and providing primary and subspecialty care for special children and adults with genetic diseases.
Huntingdon county business and industry, incorporated (corporation) is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, recreational, educational, agricultural and civic interests of the county of huntingdon.
Public lending library
Operation of a community library in honey brook, pennsylvania.
Public lending library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Skills of Central Pennsylvania Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tyrone Community Players. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 165 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 HUNTINGDON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Tyrone Hospital ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ALTOONA AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds ANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWAB ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DAIRY EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BOB PERKS CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds JC Blair Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS NIGHT OUT ALTOONA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION OUR TOWN INC ↗
- Who funds DAIRY'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALTOONA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY HUNTINGDON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent de Paul Altoona-Johnstown ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON REGIONAL FIRE AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TYRONE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ALTOONA-BLAIR COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
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: The Bruno & Lena Degol Family Found · Upmc Group · Ward Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Snyder H C & M a Tw Char Trust · Port Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · J Melvin & Beulah M Isett Comm Fdn
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 Central Pennsylvania 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.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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