How much does Greater Erie Community Action Committee give?

Greater Erie Community Action Committee reported 3 itemized grants totaling $290,313, out of $1,118,622 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Greater Erie Community Action Committee fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (71%), Education (15%), Youth Development (7%).

Who are Greater Erie Community Action Committee's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Erie ($1.6M), Erie Center on Health and Aging ($1.3M), John F Kennedy Center Inc ($1.2M).

Does Greater Erie Community Action Committee fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Erie Community Action Committee?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, United Way of Erie County, Hamot Health Foundation.

Where is Greater Erie Community Action Committee based?

Greater Erie Community Action Committee is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 3
Itemized grants FY2025: 4
Organizations funded FY2024: 25%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $290k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $131,492
Largest grant, FY2025: $137,573
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 8; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Greater Erie Community Action Committee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealth

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	3	$290k	0%
FY2024	4	$432k	25%
FY2023	4	$403k	0%
FY2022	5	$428k	0%
FY2021	6	$398k	0%
FY2020	6	$622k	0%
FY2019	7	$810k	0%
FY2018	8	$1.3M	13%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.4MEducation$943kYouth Development$415kFood & Nutrition$219kCommunity Improvement$122kHealth$107k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Erie	$1,644,162	6	4%
Erie Center on Health and Aging	$1,265,184	7	30%
John F Kennedy Center Inc	$1,235,239	9	23%
Mercy Hilltop Senior Center Inc	$1,109,854	9	48%
Multicultural Community Resource Center	$227,695	9	1%
Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc	$218,613	3	25%
Warren and Forest Counties EOC	$122,372	1	3%
Mercyhurst University	$110,750	4	0%
Millcreek Manor	$106,548	1	0%
Community Action Inc	$87,038	1	2%

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All grantees of Greater Erie Community Action Committee by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Erie	$1,644,162	6	4%
Erie Center on Health and Aging	$1,265,184	7	30%
John F Kennedy Center Inc	$1,235,239	9	23%
Mercy Hilltop Senior Center Inc	$1,109,854	9	48%
Multicultural Community Resource Center	$227,695	9	1%
Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc	$218,613	3	25%
Warren and Forest Counties EOC	$122,372	1	3%
Mercyhurst University	$110,750	4	0%
Millcreek Manor	$106,548	1	0%
Community Action Inc	$87,038	1	2%
Perseus House Charter School	$82,505	1	n/a
Booker T Washington Center Inc	$59,000	1	13%
Youth Leadership Institute of Erie	$45,000	1	41%
Young Entrepreneur Society Inc	$38,157	2	40%
Youth Alternatives INC	$22,500	1	n/a
R&B Bennett Enterprises Inc	$21,200	1	n/a
Urban Erie Community Development Corporation	$20,000	1	5%
Warrenforest Higher-Education Council	$18,757	1	4%
Americans for the Competitive Enterprise System Inc of Western Pennsylvania	$16,030	1	7%
Bethany Outreach Center	$13,275	1	13%
Keystone Smiles Community Learning Center Inc	$12,953	1	n/a
Crawford Co D&A Alcohol Exec	$12,214	1	n/a
Hermitage House Youth Services Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Bayfront Nato Inc	$9,350	1	1%
Sisters of Mercy	$9,150	1	n/a
Cornell Abraxas Group Inc	$9,000	1	n/a
Allegheny-Clarion Valley Sd	$8,220	1	n/a
Gibbons Business Solutions	$7,500	1	n/a

Greater Erie Community Action Committee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Erie Community FoundationPA33.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Greater Erie Community Action Committee

How much does Greater Erie Community Action Committee give?: Greater Erie Community Action Committee reported 3 itemized grants totaling $290,313, out of $1,118,622 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Greater Erie Community Action Committee fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (71%), Education (15%), Youth Development (7%).
Who are Greater Erie Community Action Committee's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Erie ($1.6M), Erie Center on Health and Aging ($1.3M), John F Kennedy Center Inc ($1.2M).
Does Greater Erie Community Action Committee fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Erie Community Action Committee?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, United Way of Erie County, Hamot Health Foundation.
Where is Greater Erie Community Action Committee based?: Greater Erie Community Action Committee is based in PA.