Skip to content
Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.5MReligion$364kHuman Services$269kRecreation & Sports$248kPublic Safety & Disaster$230kArts & Culture$227kHealth$207kFood & Nutrition$198kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 53 grants below total $805,506, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,364,427 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $558,921 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 $10k17 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $489k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $192k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELK COUNTY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM$78,515
ST BONIFACE SCHOOL$58,524
QUEEN OF THE WORLD CHURCH$55,195
YWCA BRADFORD$41,980
COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER$41,810
RIDGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT$31,278
ST BONIFACE CHURCH$29,222
BRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE$23,054
RIDGWAY PUBLIC LIBRARY$21,056
RIDGWAY BOROUGH$17,601
RIDGWAY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$16,600
CHRISTIAN FOOD BANK$14,850
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST MARYS INC$12,493
CARE FOR CHILDREN$12,165
ST MARYS AMBULANCE SERVICE INC$11,750
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CEN CLEAR CHILD SERVICES: $7k → 12%CEN CLEAR CHILD SERVICES: $7k → 12%CASA OF MCKEAN COUNTY: $37k → 15%CASA OF MCKEAN COUNTY: $21k → 15%GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER: $20k → 10%OFFICE OF HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 10%BRADFORD'S FRIENDSHIP TABLE: $10k → 15%YMCA OF RIDGWAY: $10k → 10%RIDGWAY YMCA: $8k → 10%GREATER BRADFORD SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER: $6k → 15%JAY TOWNSHIP: $5k → 15%GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER: $6k → 10%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 60 repeat orgs$963k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
58

Total granted

$3.8M
$747k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+13%

Still filing today

62%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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

  • RF
    RIDGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT
    5× · 2019–2025 · $168k · revenue +77%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST MARYS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +178%
  • CF
    CHRISTIAN FOOD BANK INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $106k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • SN
    SPUNKY NORWEGIAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $107k
  • O5
    OTHERS 5000 AND LESS
    one grant, 2018 · $79k
  • GR
    GROW RURAL PA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $27k
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
Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

—
2
Brady Township Volunteer Fire Rescue and Ambulance Co Inc

To provide emergency fire, rescue and ambulance services to Brady Township and surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Penryn Fire Company 1 Inc

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Clearfield Volunteer Fire Department

The protection, preservation of life and property during emergencies as may occur in the Borough of Clearfield and surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Frazeysburg Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide emergency medical services and fire runs Training of volunteer EMS and fire personnel maintenance and repair of equipment.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Tamaqua Community Ambulance

Provider of Emergency Ambulance Services

Health
7
Elkland Area Community Library

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.

Education
8
Midway Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection for the borough of midway, pa and the surrounding area

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Imler Area Volunteer Fire Company

Provide firefighting and rescue services to the residents of the Imler, PA area.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department

The Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department provides both fire and ambulance response services in the area of Tidioute, Pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Pocono Mountain Regional Emergency Medical Services

Provide emergency ambulance services

Health
12
Garland Volunteer Fire Departm

Provides volunteer fire fighting and other emergency-related services to the community

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickinson Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 134 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
45/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST BONIFACE CHURCH: $520,944 · OtherST BONIFACE CHURCHUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $412,229 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEELK COUNTY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $408,061 · OtherELK COUNTY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMELK COUNTY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS: $180,184 · Other+102 more: $2,304,856 · Other+102 moreRIDGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $167,788 · Public Safety & DisasterJAY TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $26,793 · Public Safety & DisasterTRI COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREMANS ASSOC FIRE SCHO: $7,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCARE FOR CHILDREN: $54,265 · HealthDICKINSON CENTER INC: $34,424 · HealthBRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE: $23,054 · HealthST MARYS AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $20,877 · HealthRIDGWAY AMBULANCE CORPORATION: $18,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $10,563 · HealthBRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthEVERGREEN ELM INC: $10,000 · HealthElk Regional Health Center: $8,318 · HealthCOMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC: $89,886 · EducationBRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $52,500 · EducationBender Safety & Training Corporation: $9,000 · EducationCASA OF MCKEAN COUNTY: $57,600 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER INC: $25,630 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF RIDGWAY: $17,500 · Human ServicesOffice of Human Services: $15,000 · Human ServicesCen-Clear Child Services Inc: $14,099 · Human ServicesGreater Bradford Senior Activity Center Inc: $10,968 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP TABLE: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST MARYS INC: $122,880 · Youth DevelopmentJOHNSONBURG COMMUNITY TRUST: $36,620 · PhilanthropyMCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $30,155 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE BRADFORD AREA INC: $17,000 · PhilanthropyDUBOIS AREA UNITED WAY: $9,000 · PhilanthropyST MARYS AREA UNITED WAY: $7,500 · Philanthropy
Other$3,826,274Public Safety & Disaster$202,081Health$189,501Education$151,386Human Services$150,797Youth Development$122,880Philanthropy$100,275

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIDGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $167,788 over 5y, 12% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST MARYS INC: $122,880 over 8y, 14% of budgetCHRISTIAN FOOD BANK INC: $106,249 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC: $89,886 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRADFORD: $75,980 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRIDGWAY FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $58,112 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetCASA OF MCKEAN COUNTY: $57,600 over 2y, 39% of budgetCARE FOR CHILDREN: $54,265 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $52,500 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetDESTINATIONS BRADFORD: $46,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetELKLAND SEARCH & RESCUE ASSOC INC: $38,590 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetJOHNSONBURG COMMUNITY TRUST: $36,620 over 3y, 31% of budgetFRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES ANF INC: $35,410 over 3y, 20% of budgetST MARYS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $34,928 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA: $34,766 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDICKINSON CENTER INC: $34,424 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRADFORD LEARNING CENTER: $32,321 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCRYSTAL FIRE DEPARTMENT OF ST MARYS: $32,280 over 3y, 15% of budgetMCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $30,155 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTUNA VALLEY TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $29,303 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetELK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $28,939 over 3y, 30% of budgetBRADFORD ECUMENICAL HOME INC: $28,468 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $28,145 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetJAY TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE CO: $26,793 over 2y, 12% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $26,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER INC: $25,630 over 2y, 16% of budgetKane Area Community Center Inc: $25,571 over 2y, 11% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $23,388 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE: $23,054 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetST MARYS LITTLE LEAGUE: $21,557 over 1y, 27% of budgetST MARYS AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $20,877 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MCKEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $19,970 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIDGWAY AMBULANCE CORPORATION: $18,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF RIDGWAY: $17,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSN OF COUNTY FAIRS: $17,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetWillow Creek Snowmobile Club Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BRADFORD AREA INC: $17,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity: $17,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLUTHERAN HOME AT KANE: $15,636 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOffice of Human Services: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFUTURES REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $14,179 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCen-Clear Child Services Inc: $14,099 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc: $13,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $12,563 over 1y, 14% of budgetGreater Bradford Senior Activity Center Inc: $10,968 over 1y, 16% of budgetNO FELINE LEFT BEHIND IN MCKEAN COUNTY: $10,478 over 1y, 12% of budgetBRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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 RIDGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST MARYS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BRADFORD ↗
  • Who funds RIDGWAY FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF MCKEAN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CARE FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BRADFORD AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds DESTINATIONS BRADFORD ↗
  • Who funds ELKLAND SEARCH & RESCUE ASSOC INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSONBURG COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TWIN LAKES ANF INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OLEAN NY AND BRADFORD PA ↗
  • Who funds DICKINSON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BRADFORD LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CRYSTAL FIRE DEPARTMENT OF ST MARYS ↗
  • Who funds MCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TUNA VALLEY TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ELK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BRADFORD ECUMENICAL HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds ELK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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.

Philo & Sarah Blaisde…The Stackpole-Hall Fo…Northwest Charitable …Pembroke FoundationAj and Sigismunda Pal…United Way of the Bra…Doris E Stackpole Fou…Firstenergy FoundationGlenn & Ruth Mengle F…Second Harvest Food B…St Marys Area United …The James B and Eilee…
Philo & Sarah Blaisdell FoundationPA51× affinity22 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    27report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies?

    Find your warmest path to Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 134 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies’ filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home