· Public charity
Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation
To preserve, facilitate, promote and foster economic development within cumberland county and the surrounding regions, by providing integrated economic development and tourism marketing services to, and on behalf of, the citizens of the county, the south central pennsylvania region, and the commonwealth of pennsylvania.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of CUMBERLAND AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $548k
- $250k+6 grants · $6.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN HARRIS HOSPITALITY RE LP | $3,000,000 |
| SADLER HEALTH CENTER | $2,000,000 |
| PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION | $449,700 |
| VICKIES ANGEL FOUNDATION | $275,309 |
| SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $260,868 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| MIDWAY BOWL LLC | $133,709 |
| NEW CUMBERLAND OLDE TOWNE | $120,000 |
| WILLIAMS GROVE HISTORICAL STEAM | $117,609 |
| Individual grant recipient | $89,812 |
| Individual grant recipient | $87,020 |
| CARLISLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $26,913 |
| REC FS LLC | $26,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,667 |
| CARLISLE FAMILY YMCA | $24,155 |
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 (FY17–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +118% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M 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
- FOFriends of the West Shore Theatre Inc2× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +350% · 36% of their budget
- CVCUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS COUNCIL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $89k · revenue +186%
- GCGREATER CARLISLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE2× · 2024–2025 · $48k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- PSPENNSYLVANIA SCHOLASTIC FOOTBALL COACHES ASSOCIATIone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0% · 35% of their budget
- CRCARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2024 · $224k · revenue +23%
- CHCONRAIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +53%
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.
Promote tourism in Centre County PA
To preserve and promote the history of cambria county through its museum collections, library and archives
See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…
Preservation
Discover and preserve the historic resources throughout the city of williamsport, pa.
To serve as a steward for the natural and cultural communities in the upper Penns Creek Watershed. We seek to preserve and Honor the agricultural roots of Penns Valley by protecting and conserving its waters, farmland, forests and rural…
To preserve, facilitate, promote and foster economic development within cumberland county and the surrounding regions, by providing integrated economic development and tourism marketing services to, and on behalf of, the citizens of the…
To convert abandoned railroad rights-of-way to recreational facilities and to promote the preservation and protection of the natural resources found along abandoned railroads rights-of-way.
The Players Club of Swarthmore is an all-volunteer community theater committed to providing a welcoming environment that fosters training and development in the performing arts, artistic excellence and enriches the cultural life of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cumberland County Historical Society and Hamilton Library Assoc and the most unlike its peers is Dickinson College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 154 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 SADLER HEALTH CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLASTIC FOOTBALL COACHES ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE REGIONAL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS GROVE HISTORICAL STEAM ENGINE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW CUMBERLAND OLDE TOWNE ASSN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH BALLET ↗
- Who funds Friends of the West Shore Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds CONRAIL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILS TO TRAILS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CARLISLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Partnership for Better Health · United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland County · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Upmc Group · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation 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.