· Private foundation
Emporium Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMERON COUNTY RECREATION BOARD GENERAL BUDGET | $35,000 |
| CAMERON COUNTY OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES | $29,000 |
| GUY & MARY FELT MANOR INC | $25,000 |
| CAMERON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $22,000 |
| CAMERON COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| CAMERON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $13,500 |
| CAMERON COUNTY RECREATION BOARD 4-H PROGRAMS | $12,500 |
| CAMERON COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE | $12,000 |
| NORTHERN TTIER COMMUNITY ACTION CORP | $5,000 |
| CAMERON COUNTY RECREATION BOARD PLAYGROUND | $4,500 |
| EMPORIUM BOROUGH POLICE DEPARTMENT | $4,000 |
| CAMERON COUNTY QUARTERBACK CLUB | $4,000 |
| DRUM & HENRY KIDS FISHING DERBY COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| PROJECT PEDAL | $2,800 |
| PROSPECT PARK PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Emporium Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CCCAMERON COUNTY RECREATION BOARD GENERAL BUDGET6× · 2020–2025 · $210k
- CCCAMERON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE6× · 2020–2025 · $183k
- GAGUY AND MARY FELT MANOR INC3× · 2022–2025 · $159k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- GMGUY & MAY FELT MANORARTS IN EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k
- NCNEWTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k
- BMBARBARA M BROWN MEMORIAL LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $16k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 44 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 GUY AND MARY FELT MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COUNTY OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Tier Community Action Corp ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Office of Human Services ↗
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: George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Emporium Foundation Inc 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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