· Public charity
Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland
Business leadership and financing - provide the business sector leadership to develop business opportunities and financing that creates and retains quality jobs in westmoreland county and the region.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| M&M's Hair Design Inc | $21,000 |
| Ligonier Country Market | $21,000 |
| Ligonier Gynecology LLC | $21,000 |
| Madagan Inc dba Forks Inn | $21,000 |
| Lynn D Ferraro dba ARO Enterprise Inc | $21,000 |
| William M Jonos dba Allegory Gallery | $21,000 |
| Ligonier Creamery Inc | $21,000 |
| Dennis Puskar dba Johnathan Michaels Boutiq1ue | $21,000 |
| JEM Enterprises Inc Brady's Restaurant | $21,000 |
| Safe & Secure Training & Range LLC | $18,500 |
| Myriam's Table LLC | $11,470 |
| Robin L Detore dba Loopsey Boutique | $10,600 |
| BODILO INC dba Finishing Touch | $9,300 |
| Kathleen M Zimmerman dba Kathy's Kreations | $8,795 |
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 (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of your 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.
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2024.
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 2020–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 14 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland 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.