How much did ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION reported 373 grants totaling $25,784,126 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION based?

ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is based in PA.

ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION works to improve the quality of life for all in our region by evaluating and addressing community issues, building permanent charitable endowments, and by promoting philanthropic and community leadership.

$26M

Granted FY2024

373

Grants

Communities

$2.3M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

alongisle lighthousedeterminingstudent scholarshipsambulancewestimproving

2019

notre dametruthinquiryinterlochen artsanimatedpresencescholars

2020

economic securitygirls groupmeditationronald mcdonaldpresbyterian seniorcarecrirate

2021

fpsstaycationrespitesancillaryrespite experiencesserved directconcepts

2022

business entitiesrscresearcherspresbyterian seniorcarecrigreenmedia

2023

shadow woodcareer dreamsassistsworldwidealternativeapostle churchartistic

2024

meadvillemartinunderstandinclusivityccflrespondersheroes

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 373 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k71 grants · $492k
$10k–50k191 grants · $4.4M
$50k–250k95 grants · $9.5M
$250k+16 grants · $10M

$23,789

Median grant

States reached

$386M

Total assets

Largest grants

ERIE CITY MISSION$2,298,713
HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,285,678
UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY$1,222,047
THE NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP$609,966
ERIE PHILHARMONIC$574,921
ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$550,859
MINORITY COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COALITION$500,000
EAST SIDE RENAISSANCE$451,356
ERIE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$382,336
FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION$354,554
ERIE INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC$340,303
MERCYHURST PREPARATORY SCHOOL$337,123
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$301,366
NEW HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ERIE$290,276
JULIA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE$276,695

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$144M · 391 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

391 repeat relationships — 301 still active in FY2024, 90 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

391

115

Total granted

$144M

$7.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+23%

Still filing today

69%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

UW
United Way of Erie County
8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +115% · 57% of their budget
HH
Hamot Health Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +110%
EC
Erie City Mission
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +11% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

EC
Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority
one grant, 2017 · $4.2M
CM
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2021 · $1.2M · revenue +23%
BF
BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +37% · 72% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 County Community Foundation

The mission of the eccf is to provide for the enrichment of the quality of life in the erie county and sandusky, ohio community by developing a permanent endowment to assess and respond to changing community needs and by serving as a…

Philanthropy

East Erie County Emergency Medical

Emergency medical service

Community Improvement

Erie County Economic Development

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.

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Erie Marsh Conservation Foundation

Environment

Humane Society of Erie County

To educate the residents of erie county on proper care, housing and support of animals; to prevent animal cruelty in erie county, and to provide temporary shelter for homeless pets.

Animals

Erie Residential Living Inc

To provide residential services to individuals with developmental disabilities

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Erie Canalway Heritage Fund Inc

Erie canalway heritage fund, inc. works to preserve the extraordinary canal corridor heritage, to promote the corridor as a world class tourism destination, and to foster vibrant communities connected by the waterway.

Community Improvement

Erie Community College Foundation Inc

The ECC Foundation raises funds for scholarships, capital projects, faculty enrichment programs & innovative educational & workforce development initiatives. The Foundation supports alumni/former students through special events, reunions…

Education

Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care

Education

Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus

Education

Cranberry Township Emergency Medical

To preserve life and promote health and safety in our community.

Health

Volunteer Board of the Erie County Medical Center

To raise funds for projects for the erie county medical center

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Dawn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Interlochen Center for the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%9/561

the rest of the field

722/11,176

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.

05the grantee network

385 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

119

Early backer (in before they grew)

372/385

Grantees still filing

269/385

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$75,533,184Health$18,007,385Arts & Culture$17,328,882Philanthropy$14,982,286Education$10,086,839Community Improvement$9,249,099Human Services$7,236,366

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.

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.

Wabtec FoundationPA116.6× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wabtec Foundation · United Way of Erie County · M J Surgala Tr · Hamot Health Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc · Kern Family Foundation Inc · Merwin Foundation · North East Community Foundation · The Arts Council of Erie · Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) · Northwest Charitable 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 organisation ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Mercy Center for Women.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 251695659 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Mercy Center for Women, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Erie Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Erie Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

385 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Erie Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

385 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Erie Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph