· Public charity
Columbia Montour Tourist Promotion Agency Inc
To promote tourism and visitation to columbia and montour counties in pennsylvania.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of COLUMBIA MONTOUR TOURIST PROMOTION AGENCY INC’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 10 grants below total $550,061 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $585,871 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,810 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $154k
- $250k+1 grant · $384k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTOUR AREA RECREATION COMMISSION | $384,456 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | $45,000 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY | $36,605 |
| BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE | $18,000 |
| HISTORIC ORANGEVILLE TRAIN STATION ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| DANVILLE AREA LITTLE LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| DANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE | $14,500 |
| TOWN OF BLOOMSBURG | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| THE EXCHANGE | $5,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 38% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- DBDANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE7× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +46%
- DADanville Area Little League8× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +24%
- BTBLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC4× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- FBFOLKS BUTTERFLY FARMone grant, 2023 · $34k
- 2W203 WEST MAIN ST INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Promote artistic theater in Bedford County, PA
Provide a museum of local railroads
Ballet and artistic performances for the public
Providing regular performances of the arts
Maintain archives of historical material
Museum association
The mission of the brownsburg community association is to promote a sense of community spirit in the brownsburg area by protecting, enhancing and preserving the quality of life.
Preserve, collect, research and interpret historical information and items specific to export, pennsylvania (westmoreland county)
Historical museum
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Orangeville Train Station Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 31 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 DANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Danville Area Little League ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL HORTICULTURAL & MECHANICAL ASSN ↗
- Who funds Historic Orangeville Train Station Association ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE ARTS DBA THE EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds BERWICK BOULEVARD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONTOUR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds BERWICK THEATER AND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOMSBURG NATIONALS ↗
- Who funds BERWICK AREA LITTLE LEAGUE 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: Community Giving Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · 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 Columbia Montour Tourist Promotion Agency Inc 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.