· 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
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dennis Puskar dba Johnathan Michaels Boutiq1ue | $21,000 |
| M&M's Hair Design Inc | $21,000 |
| Ligonier Country Market | $21,000 |
| Ligonier Creamery Inc | $21,000 |
| Madagan Inc dba Forks Inn | $21,000 |
| Lynn D Ferraro dba ARO Enterprise Inc | $21,000 |
| JEM Enterprises Inc Brady's Restaurant | $21,000 |
| William M Jonos dba Allegory Gallery | $21,000 |
| Ligonier Gynecology LLC | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of its 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
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2024.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 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.
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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