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First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania
Fcfp works to improve quality of life in north central pennsylvania through community leadership, the promotion of philanthropy, the strengthening of nonprofit impact, and the perpetual stewardship of charitable assets.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 282 grants below total $6,123,881 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,377,478 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $253,597 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k129 grants · $898k
- $10k–50k129 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRETREE PLACE | $250,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| OLD LYCOMING TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $200,000 |
| LYCOMING COLLEGE | $180,000 |
| FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA | $125,000 |
| CITY OF WILLIAMSPORT | $125,000 |
| FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA | $121,996 |
| STEP INC | $109,400 |
| WILLIAMSPORT LYCOMING ARTS COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC | $91,616 |
| NORTHUMBERLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $91,315 |
| CAMP SUSQUE INC | $89,911 |
| FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA | $88,379 |
| FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA | $84,624 |
| WATERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $81,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 7% of First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania’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, 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
226 repeat relationships — 159 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 34 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k 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
- LCLYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC7× · 2017–2025 · $825k · revenue +29%
- TRTHE RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL YMCA9× · 2017–2025 · $728k · revenue +56%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $718k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- MPMONTOURSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $332k · revenue -63% · 68% of their budget
- SASHAMOKIN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $250k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PAone grant, 2018 · $175k · revenue -19%
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.
Public lending library
Public lending library
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Public lending library
Public lending library
Public lending library
Public lending library
Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
Public lending library
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
To provide, maintain, operate and support a free public library in monroe county, pa
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wyoming Valley and the most unlike its peers is Blast Intermediate Unit 17 Educational Enhancement Foundation. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 23. 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
269 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. 269 of the 381 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FIRETREE PLACE ↗
- Who funds FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING-CLINTON COUNTIES COMM FOR COMMUNITY ACTION (STEP) INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUSQUE INC ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Susquehanna Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYCOMING HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAMSPORT HOME ↗
- Who funds MONTOURSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATRE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds EXPECTATIONS WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COUNTY SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LYCOMING COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HIAWATHA INC ↗
- Who funds MUNCY AREA POOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP MOUNT LUTHER CORPORATION ↗
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: Community Giving Foundation · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Degenstein Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Degenstein Charles B Fdn-Char Tr · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Geisinger Health · United Way of Columbia and Montour County · Allone Charities · Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc · Lycoming County United Way Inc · William J and Ann M Roll 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 First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania 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.
- Babson College — 3% 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.