· Public charity
Cultural Alliance of York County
We are a catalyst, fueling the creative energy and vibrancy of our community through leadership, collaboration, and sustainability in order to enrich the quality of life of all our citizens.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $578,926 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $872,891 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $293,965 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 $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $167k
- $250k+1 grant · $256k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $255,769 |
| YORK HISTORY CENTER | $166,516 |
| CREATIVE YORK | $41,307 |
| YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $41,233 |
| GREATER YORK CENTER OF DANCE EDUCATION | $14,756 |
| DREAMWRIGHTS CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS | $11,862 |
| NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY | $10,879 |
| SUSQUEHANNA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY | $9,073 |
| YORK ART ASSOCIATION | $9,035 |
| YORK JUNIOR SYMPHONY | $6,626 |
| EICHELBERGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $5,954 |
| POSITIVE ENERGY ARTS FOUNDATION | $5,916 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SPSTRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +18%
- YCYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +262%
- CYCREATIVE YORK8× · 2017–2024 · $279k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- TBTHE BELMONT THEATRE2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +111%
- MSMAIN STREET YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +93%
- TGTHE GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -21%
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.
Dance education & demonstration. to further educate young dancers, provide cultural experiences to local schools and to offer a repertoire of original and classical dance works to the community at large.
Dance nbsp;education nbsp; amp; nbsp;demonstration nbsp;to nbsp;further nbsp;educate nbsp;young nbsp;dancers nbsp;provide nbsp;cultural nbsp;experiences nbsp;to nbsp;local nbsp;schools nbsp;and nbsp;to nbsp;offer nbsp;a nbsp;repertoire…
To create arts programming that encourages education, economic development and arts advocacy through unique art experiences that engage the community to make york county a regional arts destination. it is the vision of the arts council of…
Create connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration.
The coleman center for the arts, cca, is a contemporary arts organization that uses art to foster positive social change, answer civic needs, build local pride, and use creativity for community problem solving.
We are a catalyst, fueling the creative energy and vibrancy of our community through leadership, collaboration, and sustainability in order to enrich the quality of life of all our citizens.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Through live performances, theatrical events and educational avenues, the stanley theatre, operated by the central new york community arts council, remains the center for excellence in the arts, community engagement and economic stability…
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
As one of america's oldest continuously-operating community theatres, the mission of the youngstown playhouse is to present high quality theater arts performances, provide education opportunities for adults and youth, expose all people to…
Education and preservation of local historic sites
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative York and the most unlike its peers is The Grotto Community Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
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 STRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE YORK ↗
- Who funds YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Dance It Forward ↗
- Who funds YORK ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEAM INTO HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds YORK JUNIOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EICHELBERGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PARLIAMENT ↗
- Who funds THE BELMONT THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET YORK INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE ENERGY ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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: Powder Mill Foundation · York County Community Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · York County Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc · White Rose Leadership Institute · The W Dale Brougher Foundation · Kinsley Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · The Graham Foundation · The Stewart Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation
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 Cultural Alliance of York County 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.