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Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric

The fund accumulates general electric payroll withholdings from its employees and distributes the withholdings to local 501 c 3 charitable organizations. The organization also recycles aluminum cans and payments received from the recycling center are designated for individual support for those who have incurred unexpected hardships.

$541k
Granted FY2019
19
Itemized grants FY2019
19
Organizations funded FY2019
53%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$488k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$110,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 19
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 53% of the organizations Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Human ServicesHealthReligionRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201919$488k53%
FY201813$156k69%
FY20179$304kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$189kReligion$150kHealth$122kHuman Services$121kYouth Development$107kEmployment$70kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Erie County$183,12013%
Emmaus Ministries$150,0002n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Erie Inc$100,00035%
Uermwa Local #506$70,08915%
Stairways Behavioral Health Inc$60,75030%
The Salvation Army$46,5003n/a
Mmlb - Michael Making Lives Better$46,0002n/a
Union City Family Support Center Inc$32,50025%
Community Shelter Services Inc$25,00021%
Lawrence Park Fire Department$25,0001n/a
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Erie County$183,12013%
Emmaus Ministries$150,0002n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Erie Inc$100,00035%
Uermwa Local #506$70,08915%
Stairways Behavioral Health Inc$60,75030%
The Salvation Army$46,5003n/a
Mmlb - Michael Making Lives Better$46,0002n/a
Union City Family Support Center Inc$32,50025%
Community Shelter Services Inc$25,00021%
Lawrence Park Fire Department$25,0001n/a
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$25,00030%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$20,55010%
Lower Eastside Federation$20,0001n/a
Erie United Methodist Alliance$20,00012%
Veterans Miracle Center$15,000112%
Erie Family Center$15,00021%
The Sight Center of Northwest Pennsylvania$10,00011%
Functional Performance Fitness$10,0001n/a
Crime Victim Center of Erie County Inc$10,00011%
Hospice of Metropolitan Erie Inc$10,00015%
Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc$10,00010%
Lower Eastside Sports Center$7,500113%
First Assembly of God$6,5001n/a
Connecting Hands$6,00018%
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc$6,00010%
Autism Society Northwestern Pennsylvania$6,00013%
Veteran Affairs Medical Center$6,0001n/a
Save Our Native Species of Lake Erie Inc$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Erie County: $183,120 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Erie Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetUermwa Local #506: $70,089 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetStairways Behavioral Health Inc: $60,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnion City Family Support Center Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCommunity Shelter Services Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErie United Methodist Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVeterans Miracle Center: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetErie Family Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Sight Center of Northwest Pennsylvania: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCrime Victim Center of Erie County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHospice of Metropolitan Erie Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetErie Homes for Children & Adults Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLower Eastside Sports Center: $7,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetConnecting Hands: $6,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTim Tebow Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Society Northwestern Pennsylvania: $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Erie Community FoundationPA29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Northwest Charitable Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Charles a Dailey Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric

How much does Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric give?
Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric reported 19 itemized grants totaling $487,839, out of $541,339 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (20%), Religion (16%), Health (13%).
Who are Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: United Way of Erie County ($183k), Emmaus Ministries ($150k), Boys & Girls Club of Erie Inc ($100k).
Does Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, Wabtec Foundation, United Way of Erie County.
Where is Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric based?
Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric is based in PA.

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 28 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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