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Covation Center Inc

To energize rural pennsylvania, enabling all citizens to innovate, create, and manufacture, building a lasting economy

$954k
Granted FY2023
40
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $944k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$34k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHOWERS CONSTRUCTION LLC$25,275
NIPPENOSE TAVERN$25,000
EAGLE VALLEY FAMILY DENTISTRY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SUSQUEHANNA AIR INNOVATION LLC$25,000
ALABASTER COFFEE$25,000
CHEF HOSCH & ANN CATERING$25,000
GARNER BEHAVIOR SERVICES$25,000
SKELETON KEY LLC$25,000
THE PLANT BASED & JUICE BAR LLC$25,000
HAPPY HOLIDAY LLC$25,000
RICHARD H STAHL AND SONS INC$25,000
THE CAKESHOP BY TATI$25,000
SAMUEL R ROCKEY DMD PC$25,000
BREEZE EASY LLC$25,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANON HOSPITALITY: $25k → 10%HAPPY HOLIDAY LLC: $25k → 8%THE PLANT BASED & JUICE BAR LLC: $25k → 10%SHOWERS CONSTRUCTION LLC: $25k → 10%SERENDIPITY X2 LLC: $25k → 11%THE KRON LAW FIRM: $25k → 11%THEY KEEP ON GROWING: $25k → 12%SAMUEL R ROCKEY DMD PC: $25k → 13%RICHARD H STAHL AND SONS INC: $25k → 14%MILROY HOSPITALITY: $25k → 15%BREEZE EASY LLC: $25k → 16%TN SHOWERS CONSTRUCTION: $25k → 10%T & T LOGGING: $25k → 11%OMNIWEALTH GROUP: $25k → 11%WHITE HORSE GRAPHICS: $19k → 12%DALIST INC: $25k → 13%IM ENTERPRISES: $25k → 16%VENTURE LEASING LLC: $22k → 10%HOMESTEADING ROOTS: $10k → 11%RIVER VALLEY INTERNET: $25k → 12%SKELETON KEY LLC: $25k → 13%THE CAKESHOP BY TATI: $25k → 16%LITTLE BLESSINGS DAYCARE: $22k → 10%ELYSIAN FIELDS PA: $25k → 12%PAT REEDER'S TAVERN: $25k → 13%EAGLE VALLEY FAMILY DENTISTRY: $25k → 16%NIPPENOSE TAVERN: $25k → 12%KEYSTONE COUNSELING: $25k → 13%DANIEL E ULMER FARM: $25k → 16%THE POTTING BENCH LLC: $25k → 12%CARA MONTARSI-STATE FARM AGENT: $25k → 13%JOSEPH R SCHUCHERT DMD: $25k → 16%GARNER BEHAVIOR SERVICES: $25k → 12%DARK MIND PRODUCTIONS: $15k → 16%SUSQUEHANNA AIR INNOVATION LLC: $25k → 12%CHEF HOSCH & ANN CATERING: $25k → 12%ALABASTER COFFEE: $25k → 12%THE TRIA PRIMA: $25k → 12%KALLECTIVE WELLNESS: $23k → 12%FOLLMER CONSTRUCTION: $17k → 12%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 field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2023–2023.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2023 to 2023, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+40 more: $953,722 · Other+40 more
Other$953,722

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

04Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Covation Center Inc 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 40 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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