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Columbia Montour Tourist Promotion Agency Inc at a glance

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Columbia Montour Tourist Promotion Agency Inc

To promote tourism and visitation to columbia and montour counties in pennsylvania.

$586k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$384k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.3MCommunity Improvement$536kArts & Culture$484kFood & Nutrition$45kEducation$15kPhilanthropy$10kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $550,061, the rows itemized in this filing. The $585,871 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,810 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $154k
  • $250k+1 grant · $384k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MONTOUR DELONG FAIR: $25k → 10%BENTON RODEO: $25k → 14%FOLKS BUTTERFLY FARM: $34k → 15%MONTOUR AREA RECREATION COMMISSION: $384k → 10%BENTON RODEO: $25k → 14%MONTOUR AREA RECREATION COMMISSION: $232k → 10%BENTON RODEO: $25k → 14%MONTOUR AREA RECREATION COMMISSION: $184k → 10%BOROUGH OF BERWICK: $48k → 14%MONTOUR AREA RECREATION COMMISSION: $170k → 10%THE BERWICK BOULEVARD ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%MONTOUR AREA RECREATION COMMISSION: $163k → 10%DRIVE: $100k → 10%DRIVE: $100k → 10%DRIVE: $100k → 10%MONTOUR AREA RECREATION COMMISSION: $70k → 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY: $290k → 14%DRIVE: $50k → 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $45k → 14%DANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $32k → 10%BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE: $40k → 14%DANVILLE AREA LITTLE LEAGUE: $30k → 10%THE EXCHANGE: $38k → 14%SUNNYBROOK PARK & POOL: $25k → 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY: $37k → 14%DANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $16k → 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $30k → 14%MONTOUR DELONG FAIR: $15k → 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $30k → 14%DANVILLE AREA LITTLE LEAGUE: $15k → 10%BLOOMSBURG FAIR ASSOCIATION: $28k → 14%DANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $15k → 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL HORTICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%DANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $13k → 10%BLOOMSBURG THEATER ENSEMBLE: $25k → 14%DANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $13k → 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL HORTICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%203 WEST MAIN ST INC: $25k → 14%COLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL HORTICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%BLOOMSBURG FAIR ASSOCIATION: $21k → 14%BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE: $18k → 14%BOROUGH OF BERWICK: $15k → 14%BLOOMSBURG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $15k → 14%BLOOMSBURG UNIV FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%BLOOMSBURG THEATER ENSEMBLE: $13k → 14%MONTOUR AREA REC COMM: $13k → 14%HISTORIC ORANGEVILLE TRAIN STATION ASSOCIATION: $30k → 14%HISTORIC ORANGEVILLE TRAIN STATION ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 16 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$2.8M
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+24%

Still filing today

50%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyCommunity 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

  • DB
    DANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +46%
  • DA
    Danville Area Little League
    8× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +24%
  • BT
    BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • FB
    FOLKS BUTTERFLY FARM
    one grant, 2023 · $34k
  • 2W
    203 WEST MAIN ST INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

1
Bureau County Historical Society
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2
Bedford County Players

Promote artistic theater in Bedford County, PA

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3
Brockport Community Museum
Arts & Culture
4
Bricktown Model Railroaders Association

Provide a museum of local railroads

Arts & Culture
5
Berks Ballet Theatre

Ballet and artistic performances for the public

—
6
Brewton Council of the Arts

Providing regular performances of the arts

—
7
Beltrami County Historical Society

Maintain archives of historical material

—
8
Museum Association of Douglas County

Museum association

Arts & Culture
9
Community Arts Council of Blount County
Arts & Culture
10
Brownsburg Community 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.

Arts & Culture
11
Export Borough Historical Society

Preserve, collect, research and interpret historical information and items specific to export, pennsylvania (westmoreland county)

Arts & Culture
12
Belmont County Historical Society

Historical museum

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 31 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTOUR AREA RECREATION COMMISSION: $1,203,189 · OtherMONTOUR AREA RECREATION COMMISSIONDRIVE: $349,998 · OtherDRIVECOLUMBIA COUNTY: $326,504 · OtherCOLUMBIA COUNTY+16 more: $454,521 · Other+16 moreDANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $109,550 · Arts & CultureDANVILLE BUSINESS…COLUMBIA COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $105,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA COUNTY H…BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC: $95,500 · Arts & CultureBLOOMSBURG THEATR…Historic Orangeville Train Station Association: $55,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Orangevi…EXCHANGE ARTS DBA THE EXCHANGE: $43,500 · Arts & CultureEXCHANGE ARTS DBA…BERWICK BOULEVARD ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMONTOUR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $12,000 · Arts & CultureDanville Area Little League: $107,193 · Recreation & SportsCOLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL HORTICULTURAL & MECHANICAL ASSN: $75,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC: $15,000 · EducationBLOOMSBURG NATIONALS: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,334,212Arts & Culture$456,550Recreation & Sports$107,193Community Improvement$75,000Education$15,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDANVILLE BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $109,550 over 7y, 14% of budgetDanville Area Little League: $107,193 over 8y, 18% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $105,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetBLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC: $95,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL HORTICULTURAL & MECHANICAL ASSN: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHistoric Orangeville Train Station Association: $55,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetEXCHANGE ARTS DBA THE EXCHANGE: $43,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBERWICK BOULEVARD ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetMONTOUR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERWICK THEATER AND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBLOOMSBURG NATIONALS: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBERWICK AREA LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 7.8% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Giving Foun…First Community Found…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Giving FoundationPA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Giving Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Columbia Montour Tourist Promotion Agency Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbia Montour Tourist Promotion Agency Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    3report 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 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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