· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown
To serve the best interest of our donors in perpetuating their philanthropic interest in financially supporting our community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN’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 189 grants below total $5,749,074 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,102,333 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,353,259 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 $10k62 grants · $467k
- $10k–50k95 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+2 grants · $682k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNSTOWN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY | $404,000 |
| GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE | $277,580 |
| INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC FOUNDATION | $201,690 |
| GREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA | $198,505 |
| BEAVER COUNTY MARCELLUS AWARENESS C | $175,667 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $147,150 |
| EPIPHANY CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $126,492 |
| JOHNSTOWN AREA REGIONAL INDUSTRIES | $126,000 |
| FLOOD CITY BOXING ACADEMY INC | $122,250 |
| SOMERSET COUNTY FOUNDATION | $122,026 |
| GALLERY ON GAZEBO | $107,450 |
| VERLAND FOUNDATION INC | $90,000 |
| CAMBRIA COUNTY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $82,250 |
| COUNTY OF SOMERSET | $80,109 |
| THE LEARNING LAMP | $78,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
217 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2025, 91 since wound down; 57 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- CLCAMBRIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $735k · revenue +53%
- TLTHE LEARNING LAMP INC7× · 2018–2025 · $624k · revenue +83%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH6× · 2019–2025 · $621k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- GUGANNON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $240k · revenue -4%
- ICINDIANA COUNTY YMCA (5647)graduatedone grant, 2020 · $224k · revenue +44%
- PRPENNSYLVANIA RURAL ARTS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $155k · revenue +136%
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.
To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.
The mission of the pennsylvania rural water association is to work cooperatively within the industry to support not only its members but all the water and wastewater utilities throughout the commonwealth with professional technical…
The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
Volunteer fire company
Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.
Provide emergency medical services.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Public lending library
Volunteer fire company
Central business group on health advocates for the appropriate balance between cost and quality of employee healthcare in lancaster county by providing education on healthcare issues, promoting cooperation among payers, providers and…
The mission of the shippensburg area chamber of commerce is to provide members with services that promote and support economic vitality as well as develop shippensburg as a great place to live, work, play, visit, and invest.
Operation of a fire company that provides residents of bethlehem township and surrounding municipalities with fire suppression, rescue, and emergency medical services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Building Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Portage Area Jt Recreation Commission. 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 29 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
373 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. 373 of the 517 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING LAMP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MCCORT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN AREA REGIONAL INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds YOUR SAFE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INCLINED PLANE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN AREA HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FLOOD CITY BOXING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ARBUTUS PARK MANOR ↗
- Who funds LEE INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTRACKER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORA ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VISION TOGETHER 2025 INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY MARCELLUS AWARENESS COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CONEMAUGH VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds VERLAND ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA COUNTY TOURIST COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds STACKHOUSE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Portage Area Jt Recreation Commission ↗
- Who funds INDIANA COUNTY YMCA (5647) ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
- Who funds PROMOTE PT ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
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: Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation · 1889 Foundation Inc · The Heinz Endowments · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Southern Alleghenies Inc
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 Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown 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.