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Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies
The mission of the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTHERN ALLEGHENIES is to strengthen our region through development, stewardship, and grant making as donors achieve their philanthropic goals.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTHERN ALLEGHENIES’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 71 grants below total $1,020,337 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,493,795 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $473,458 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 $10k29 grants · $220k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $596k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELK COUNTY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM | $143,072 |
| ST BONIFACE SCHOOL | $61,134 |
| RIDGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $35,422 |
| ST BONIFACE CHURCH | $30,527 |
| DESTINATIONS-BRADFORD | $24,000 |
| YMCA OF BRADFORD | $23,666 |
| YWCA BRADFORD | $22,000 |
| CITY OF ST MARYS PARKS AND RECREATION | $21,000 |
| CASA OF MCKEAN COUNTY | $20,600 |
| KANE AREA COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| MCKEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $17,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BRADFORD AREA | $17,000 |
| COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER | $16,076 |
| BRADFORD LITTLE LEAGUE | $16,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 33 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k 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
- RFRIDGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT4× · 2019–2024 · $137k · revenue +77%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST MARYS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +178%
- CFCHRISTIAN FOOD BANK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $91k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- SNSPUNKY NORWEGIAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $107k
- O5OTHERS 5000 AND LESSone grant, 2018 · $79k
- GRGROW RURAL PA INCone grant, 2022 · $27k
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.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Provide fire protection to community
Operate and maintain a free community library for purposes of providing the community of Elkland, PA and surrounding area with books, multi-media and information services.
Volunteer fire company
Provider of Emergency Ambulance Services
To provide emergency fire, rescue and ambulance services to Brady Township and surrounding communities.
The protection, preservation of life and property during emergencies as may occur in the Borough of Clearfield and surrounding communities.
Fire protection for the borough of midway, pa and the surrounding area
Provide emergency ambulance services
Provide emergency medical services and fire runs Training of volunteer EMS and fire personnel maintenance and repair of equipment.
To enhance the quality of life throughout the Bradford region by facilitating, strengthening, and assisting our civic, business and government organizations.
The west bradford fire company is a volunteer fire company providing fire suppression/rescue and prevention services to west bradford, east bradford and newlin townships all in the state of pennsylvania. the fire company provides mutual…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickinson Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eldred World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 32. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 118 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 RIDGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST MARYS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCKEAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds DESTINATIONS BRADFORD ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RIDGWAY FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES ANF INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRADFORD ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL FIRE DEPARTMENT OF ST MARYS ↗
- Who funds ELKLAND SEARCH & RESCUE ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSONBURG COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds ELK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GROW RURAL PA INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Kane Area Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA ↗
- Who funds TUNA VALLEY TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
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: Philo & Sarah Blaisdell Foundation · The Stackpole-Hall Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Pembroke Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · United Way of the Bradford Area Inc · Doris E Stackpole Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Glenn & Ruth Mengle Foundation Trust · Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc · St Marys Area United Way · The James B and Eileen Ryan Family Foundation 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 the Northern Alleghenies 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.
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