· Private foundation
Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| BeBe Design House | $50,000 |
| Abundant Life | $28,295 |
| Empowered Life Community Developmen | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,519 |
| Super Soul Saturday Program | $10,000 |
| Ethan King-Vincent | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,325 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,750 |
| Uplift Foundation | $7,500 |
| Booker T Washington Center | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,200 |
| Crossover Basketball Club Inc | $5,000 |
| Erie Community Foundation | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 20 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k 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 INC3× · 2019–2021 · $124k · revenue +71%
- ENEAGLES NEST LEADERSHIP CORPORATION3× · 2017–2020 · $62k · revenue +233%
- BTBOOKER T WASHINGTON CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $42k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- ESEAST SIDE RENAISSANCE INCone grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue -27% · 60% of their budget
- KAKeystone Athletic Academyone grant, 2022 · $451k
- EDEnterprise Development Fund of Erieone grant, 2022 · $125k
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.
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…
Were working together to make the Erie region a community of opportunity where everyone can learn, work and thrive.
The mission of the Erie Chamber of Commerce is to unite community and commerce
The Erie Community College Foundation raises funds for scholarships, capital projects, faculty enrichment programs and innovative educational and workforce development initiatives. The Foundation supports alumni and former students through…
Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.
The mission of the jefferson educational society of erie is to promote civic enlightenment and community progress for the erie region through study, research and discussion. the society conducts programs to further these goals.
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…
To lead erie's economic evolution through access, advocacy and awareness.
Community Resources for Independence (CRI) is a community based, non-residential, non-profit corporation that provides services to individuals with disabilities in order to maximize their independence and the accessibility of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chief John J Mcgowan Iii Memorial Scholarship 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 31 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 219 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 EAST SIDE RENAISSANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Erie Community Action Committee ↗
- Who funds URBAN ERIE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLES NEST LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CHANGERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKER T WASHINGTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH NET ↗
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 · Wabtec Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · United Way of Erie County · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Hamot Health Foundation · Black Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Greater Erie Community Action Committee · Ge Aerospace 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 Economic Development Corporation 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.
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