· Private foundation
Emporium Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Emporium Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 92%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: George a and Margaret Mee Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Emporium Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emporium Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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