· Public charity
Greater Erie Community Action Committee
The Greater Erie Community Action Committee will eliminate poverty in Erie County through empowerment, education and community partnership.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $431,657 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,219,663 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $788,006 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER | $158,964 |
| MERCY HILLTOP CENTER INC | $144,657 |
| MILLCREEK MANOR | $106,548 |
| MULTICULTURAL COMM RESOURCE CTR | $21,488 |
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 (FY17–22, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +66%
- MHMercy Hilltop Senior Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $978k · revenue +32% · 48% of their budget
- MMMetro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $219k · revenue +171% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- WAWarren and Forest Counties EOCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $122k · revenue +49%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION INCone grant, 2017 · $87k · revenue +9%
- PHPERSEUS HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $83k
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.
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.
Were working together to make the Erie region a community of opportunity where everyone can learn, work and thrive.
The Jewish Community Council of Erie is a community-based organization serving individuals and families in the Erie area with a wide range of social and educational services, as well as capacity-building support to other community-based…
Erie Independence House, Inc. (EIH) exists to enhance and promote independence in people with disabilities through the provision of accessible, affordable, adaptive housing necessary for them to lead productive, independent lives. We offer…
To focus all available local, state, private and federal resources upon the goal of enabling low income families and low income individual of all ages to obtain the skills knowledge and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for…
The mission of the Erie Chamber of Commerce is to unite community and commerce
The Greater Erie Community Action Committee will eliminate poverty in Erie County through empowerment, education and community partnership.
The mission is to establish nurturing and sustained relationships with individuals, families and community stakeholders to foster growth, self-efficancy and independence by providing innovative evidenced based treatment focused on a whole…
Serve the Youngstown area community with social, health, financial, strategic life advice, physical education and well-being services in addition to providing housing advice, food for the needy, program activities, and cultural activities.…
To offer innovative educational, social and community building services for children, youth, senior citizens and families in the western new york area.
Provide services to meet the needs of senior citizens of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Booker T Washington Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Entrepreneur Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 28 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ERIE ↗
- Who funds ERIE CENTER ON HEALTH AND AGING ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hilltop Senior Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds Multicultural Community Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Warren and Forest Counties EOC ↗
- Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILLCREEK MANOR ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKER T WASHINGTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Leadership Institute of Erie ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Alternatives INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ERIE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WARRENFOREST HIGHER-EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR THE COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM INC OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BETHANY OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SMILES COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hermitage House Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BAYFRONT NATO INC ↗
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: Erie Community Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Hamot Health Foundation · Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation · Wabtec Foundation · Northwest Institute of Research · Firstenergy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Greater Erie Community Action Committee 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.