· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $487,839 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $541,339 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMMAUS SOUP MINISTRIES | $110,000 |
| UE 506 SPORT COMMITTEE | $70,089 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE | $50,000 |
| MMLB | $40,000 |
| BLOOM COLLABROTIVE | $30,750 |
| LAWRENCE PARK FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
| UNION CITY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $25,000 |
| LOWER EASTSIDE FEDERATION | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHELTER | $20,000 |
| VETERAN MIRACLE CENTER OF ERIE | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE | $10,000 |
| ERIE FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF METRO ERIE | $10,000 |
| CRIME VICTIMS CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
- UCUNION CITY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC2× · 2018–2019 · $33k · revenue +42%
- CSCommunity Shelter Services Inc2× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +35%
- EFERIE FAMILY CENTER2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +251%
Funded once
- UWUnited Way of Erie Countygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $183k · revenue +39%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +46%
- EUErie United Methodist Alliancegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +113%
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.
Erie Independence House, Inc. (EIH) exists to enhance and promote independence in people with disabilities through the provision of accessible, affordable, adaptive housing necessary for them to lead productive, independent lives. We offer…
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
To provide emergency medical services with advanced and basic life support capabilities, ambulance transportation services, and providing trained personnel to assist local fire departments.
To increase the organized capacity for people to care for one another.
The mission is to establish nurturing and sustained relationships with individuals, families and community stakeholders to foster growth, self-efficancy and independence by providing innovative evidenced based treatment focused on a whole…
To serve qualifying residents of erie county, ohio fairly and with dignity in providing emergency supplemental food, clothing, linens, and housewares as available.
To promote mental health and wellness in our community and support individuals and families challenged by mental illness.
Motivated by the belief that healthcare is a human right, erie family health centers, inc. (erie) provides high quality, affordable care to support healthier people, families and communities. erie's mission is an outgrowth of the civil…
To provide a safe, adequate supply of voluntarily donated blood for patients seeking medical services in northwestern pennsylvania and western new york hospitals.
Community Resources for Independence (CRI) is a community based, non-residential, non-profit corporation that provides services to individuals with disabilities in order to maximize their independence and the accessibility of the…
Child advocacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 28. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 United Way of Erie County ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ERIE INC ↗
- Who funds UERMWA LOCAL #506 ↗
- Who funds STAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNION CITY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Shelter Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Erie United Methodist Alliance ↗
- Who funds VETERANS MIRACLE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ERIE FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CRIME VICTIM CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF METROPOLITAN ERIE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EASTSIDE SPORTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING HANDS ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR NATIVE SPECIES OF LAKE ERIE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Employees'Community Services Fund of General Electric 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.
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