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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.

$873k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$256k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.7MCommunity Improvement$8k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $578,926, the rows itemized in this filing. The $872,891 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $293,965 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $167k
  • $250k+1 grant · $256k
$11,862
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE BELMONT THEATRE: $10k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA: $11k → 9%EICHELBERGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $11k → 9%APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $302k → 9%APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $291k → 9%APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $289k → 9%APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $274k → 9%APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $260k → 9%APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $256k → 9%YORK HISTORY CENTER: $216k → 9%YORK HISTORY CENTER: $215k → 9%YORK HISTORY CENTER: $194k → 9%YORK HISTORY CENTER: $187k → 9%YORK HISTORY CENTER: $173k → 9%YORK HISTORY CENTER: $167k → 9%CREATIVE YORK: $52k → 9%CREATIVE YORK: $50k → 9%CREATIVE YORK: $47k → 9%CREATIVE YORK: $47k → 9%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $42k → 9%CREATIVE YORK: $42k → 9%CREATIVE YORK: $41k → 9%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $41k → 9%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $40k → 9%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $38k → 9%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $30k → 9%YORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $30k → 9%DREAMWRIGHTS CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS: $12k → 9%DREAMWRIGHTS CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS: $12k → 9%DREAMWRIGHTS CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS: $12k → 9%THE PARLIAMENT: $12k → 9%DREAMWRIGHTS CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS: $10k → 9%GREATER YORK CENTER OF DANCE EDUCATION: $15k → 9%GREATER YORK CENTER OF DANCE EDUCATION: $15k → 9%GREATER YORK CENTER OF DANCE EDUCATION: $14k → 9%GREATER YORK CENTER OF DANCE EDUCATION: $13k → 9%GREATER YORK CENTER OF DANCE EDUCATION: $11k → 9%GREATER YORK CENTER OF DANCE EDUCATION: $11k → 9%YORK ART ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%YORK ART ASSOCIATION: $9k → 9%YORK ART ASSOCIATION: $9k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY: $12k → 9%YORK ART ASSOCIATION: $9k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY: $9k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY: $9k → 9%NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY: $14k → 9%NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY: $13k → 9%NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY: $11k → 9%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 12 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$3.7M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+93%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • SP
    STRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +18%
  • YC
    YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +262%
  • CY
    CREATIVE YORK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $279k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BELMONT THEATRE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +111%
  • MS
    MAIN STREET YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +93%
  • TG
    THE GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -21%
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
York County Ballet Company

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.

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2
Ballet of York County

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Arts Council of Rock Hill and York County Inc

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…

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4
Theatre Y

Create connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration.

Arts & Culture
5
Coleman Center Board of the City of York Term

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.

Arts & Culture
6
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.

Arts & Culture
7
New York City Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Central New York Community Arts Council Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Cny Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

Arts & Culture
10
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
11
The Youngstown Playhouse

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Conservation Society of York County

Education and preservation of local historic sites

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative York; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,677,335 · Arts & CultureSTRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $1,151,815 · Arts & CultureYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTERCREATIVE YORK: $279,093 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE YORKYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $222,640 · Arts & CultureYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA+7 more: $313,421 · Arts & Culture+7 moreSUSQUEHANNA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $38,488 · OtherTHE BELMONT THEATRE: $9,589 · OtherMAIN STREET YORK INC: $8,033 · Community ImprovementTHE GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,872 · Community ImprovementPOSITIVE ENERGY ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,916 · Education
Arts & Culture$3,644,304Other$48,077Community Improvement$13,905Education$5,916

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,677,335 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $1,151,815 over 8y, 11% of budgetCREATIVE YORK: $279,093 over 8y, 17% of budgetYORK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $222,640 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetDance It Forward: $79,580 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetYORK ART ASSOCIATION INC: $52,098 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetSTEAM INTO HISTORY INC: $45,704 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE: $45,653 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetYORK JUNIOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $43,463 over 8y, 19% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $38,488 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetEICHELBERGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $27,883 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PARLIAMENT: $19,040 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTHE BELMONT THEATRE: $9,589 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMAIN STREET YORK INC: $8,033 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPOSITIVE ENERGY ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,916 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE GROTTO COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,872 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

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.

Powder Mill FoundationYork County Community…The Arthur J and Lee …York County Conventio…White Rose Leadership…The W Dale Brougher F…Kinsley FoundationAirie Knipel Harry V …The Graham FoundationThe Stewart FoundationMcCormick Family Fdn …Anne & Philip Glatfel…
Powder Mill FoundationPA32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cultural Alliance of York County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cultural Alliance of York County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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