· Private foundation
Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Ethan King-Vincent | $10,000 |
| Super Soul Saturday Program | $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 |
| Erie Community Foundation | $5,000 |
| Crossover Basketball Club Inc | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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