· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +118% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFriends of the West Shore Theatre Inc2× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +418% · 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%
- MBMIDWAY BOWLINGone grant, 2019 · $100k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 154 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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