· Private foundation
Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY | $60,000 |
| VENANGO COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN | $48,702 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $35,000 |
| TITUSVILLE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| VENANGO AREA RIDING FOR THE | $30,000 |
| ABC LIFE CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK OF ERIE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF NW PA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY3× · 2018–2025 · $133k · revenue +17% · 58% of their budget
- FCFRANKLIN CIVIC OPERETTA ASSOCIATION2× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +70%
- PPPRECIOUS PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE2× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- RCREGIONAL COUNSELING CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +1%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $72k
- PPPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $62k · revenue +46%
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.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Community ambulance service serving residents in the greater bloomsburg, pennsylvania area
Volunteer fire company
To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.
Volunteer fire company
The protection, preservation of life and property during emergencies as may occur in the Borough of Clearfield and surrounding communities.
Promote fire safety and provide fire protection.
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The mission of this fire company is to prevent and extinguish fires in the borough of bradford woods, pa and assist neighboring fire companies as needed.
The association operates an emergency ambulance service provided for the residents of ebensburg, pa and surrounding area without regards to ability to pay.
Operation of a volunteer fire company for the local communities in pike county, pa.
To provide emergency medical services to the participating communities, which includes ambulance and wheelchair van services.
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 Vintage Wings 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 35 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 61 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 Venango County Association for the Blind ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN CIVIC OPERETTA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RENO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HAVEN OF VENANGO INC ↗
- Who funds OIL CITY CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION ↗
- Who funds JAMIE'S KIDS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HYDETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ABC LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Titusville Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OIL REGION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable Trust · Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation · Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust · Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw · Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust · Northwest Charitable Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Eileen J Luce Charitable Trust · Erie Community Foundation · Laura M Smedley Tuw · Edith C Justus Tuw · United Way of Erie County
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 Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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.