Pennsylvania · Public charity
Laurel Highlands
To promote tourism, tourism development, and the interest of the travel & hospitality industries located in the Laurel Highlands, generally comprising fayette, somerset, and westmoreland counties.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 77
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $19,111
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $84,518
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 77
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Laurel Highlands funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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 | 76 | $1.7M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $1.6M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $1.5M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $1.1M | 98% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $168k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Community Improvement$4.1MArts & Culture$1.5MEnvironment$389kRecreation & Sports$203kFood & Nutrition$177kPhilanthropy$114kAnimals$96kReligion$49kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fayette County Agricultural Improve Improvement Association | $487,746 | 4 | 11% |
| Greater Uniontown Heritage Consorti | $268,986 | 4 | 12% |
| Touchstone Center for Crafts | $259,802 | 4 | 7% |
| Mountain Watershed Association Inc | $204,810 | 3 | 4% |
| Great Allegheny Passage Conservancy | $167,715 | 5 | 10% |
| Regional Trail Corporation | $153,978 | 4 | 5% |
| Neubauers Flowers & Market House | $145,701 | 4 | n/a |
| The Perennial Project | $129,680 | 4 | 41% |
| South Union Township | $121,133 | 1 | n/a |
| Jumonville | $109,603 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 140 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fayette County Agricultural Improve Improvement Association | $487,746 | 4 | 11% |
| Greater Uniontown Heritage Consorti | $268,986 | 4 | 12% |
| Touchstone Center for Crafts | $259,802 | 4 | 7% |
| Mountain Watershed Association Inc | $204,810 | 3 | 4% |
| Great Allegheny Passage Conservancy | $167,715 | 5 | 10% |
| Regional Trail Corporation | $153,978 | 4 | 5% |
| Neubauers Flowers & Market House | $145,701 | 4 | n/a |
| The Perennial Project | $129,680 | 4 | 41% |
| South Union Township | $121,133 | 1 | n/a |
| Jumonville | $109,603 | 2 | n/a |
| Ohiopyle Vacation Rentals | $99,388 | 2 | n/a |
| Latshaw Productions & Marketing Inc | $98,500 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Connellsville | $90,648 | 4 | n/a |
| Westmoreland Museum of American Art | $90,097 | 4 | 1% |
| Benners Meadow Run RV Campground | $85,975 | 2 | n/a |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $81,878 | 2 | 0% |
| Westmoreland Cultural Trust | $81,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Joyce's Jewelry Inc | $80,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Fort Ligonier Days Inc | $77,500 | 4 | 8% |
| Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival Inc | $76,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Living Treasures Animal Park | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Fort Ligonier Association | $74,844 | 4 | 2% |
| Ligonier Valley Historical Society | $73,928 | 4 | 12% |
| Braddocks Restaurant & Tavern | $68,113 | 2 | n/a |
| Holiday Inn Express & Suites Donega | $67,655 | 4 | n/a |
| Amys Quilt Room | $64,749 | 3 | n/a |
| Yough River Brewing Co | $64,323 | 4 | n/a |
| Christian W Klay Winery Inc | $59,204 | 2 | n/a |
| Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater | $57,039 | 2 | n/a |
| Mt Pleasant Glass & Ethnic Festival Foundation | $55,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Hampton Inn by Hilton Greensburg | $55,426 | 4 | n/a |
| Overly's Country Christmas Inc | $53,750 | 3 | 6% |
| Mountain Area Fair Association | $52,400 | 1 | 36% |
| Deer Creek Winery & Watson Estate B | $51,284 | 1 | n/a |
| Westmoreland Ag Fair and Recreation Association | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hilton Garden Inn Uniontown | $49,375 | 3 | n/a |
| Laurelville Mennonite Church Center | $48,717 | 3 | 1% |
| Historic Stone House Restaurant & I | $47,794 | 2 | n/a |
| Timber Rock Amphitheater | $47,768 | 1 | n/a |
| Ligonier Center for Agriculture and Education | $47,243 | 4 | 6% |
| The Lamp Theatre Corp | $45,900 | 4 | 1% |
| Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce | $45,031 | 4 | 7% |
| Keystone Raceway Park | $45,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Main Street Theatre Company | $44,500 | 2 | 7% |
| Latrobe Art Center Inc | $44,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Greensburg Civic Theatre | $43,208 | 3 | 45% |
| White Water Adventurers | $43,117 | 3 | n/a |
| Ohiopyle Trading Post & River Tours | $42,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oak Lodge | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Caddie Shak | $39,758 | 2 | n/a |
| Frank Lloyd Wrights Kentuck Knob | $38,808 | 2 | n/a |
| East End United Community Center I | $37,446 | 2 | 2% |
| National Road Heritage Corridor | $37,387 | 3 | 6% |
| Lodge at Chalk Hill | $35,721 | 4 | n/a |
| Ridge Runner Distillery | $34,726 | 2 | n/a |
| Family Festivals Association Inc | $32,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Summersounds | $32,375 | 3 | 9% |
| Downtown Greensburg Project | $32,043 | 3 | n/a |
| SpringHill Suites by Marriott Pitts | $31,781 | 4 | n/a |
| Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival | $31,373 | 3 | n/a |
| Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor Inc | $30,294 | 4 | 4% |
| Jennerstown Speedway Complex LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Latrobe-Laurel Valley Regio | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Seven Springs Mountain Resort | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Westmoreland County Historical Society | $29,503 | 2 | 5% |
| Westmoreland Fayette Historical Society | $28,330 | 3 | 4% |
| The Lodge at Indian Lake Resort | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stage Right Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Borough of Dunbar | $24,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Patsy Hillman Park | $24,354 | 1 | n/a |
| Mountain Ridge Trails Resort | $23,061 | 1 | n/a |
| Connellsville Festival Association Inc | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art | $21,882 | 3 | 1% |
| Christmas in the Mountains | $21,874 | 4 | n/a |
| Connellsville Area Historical Society | $21,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Fayette County | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fayette Friends of Animals Inc | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Summit Inn Resort | $20,995 | 2 | n/a |
| Foggy Mountain Lodge & Pub | $20,406 | 3 | n/a |
| Ohiopyle Coffee Company | $20,273 | 1 | n/a |
| Vacation Ohiopyle | $20,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Sand Hill Berries | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Perry Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arnold Palmer Regional Airport | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hurst Media Works | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Latrobe Area Chamber of Commerce | $19,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Fayette County Historical Society Inc | $19,153 | 2 | 4% |
| The Grandeur Estate | $19,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Disalvo's Station | $18,056 | 1 | n/a |
| Crawford School of Terror | $16,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra | $15,705 | 1 | 3% |
| Joltbike LLC | $15,058 | 1 | n/a |
| Wright at Polymath Park | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Caporellas Italian Ristorante | $14,475 | 1 | n/a |
| Westmoreland Historical Society | $14,465 | 1 | n/a |
| Somerset County Fair Association | $14,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Red Carpet Limousine | $13,745 | 1 | n/a |
| Westmoreland Performing Arts | $13,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Pennsylvania Maple Festival Inc | $13,394 | 1 | 8% |
| Ohiopyle Stewart Volunteer Fire Company | $11,898 | 1 | 5% |
| Casino Theatre | $11,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society Inc | $11,717 | 1 | 14% |
| Delmont Apple N Arts Festival Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Mon Valley Academy for the Artsinc | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Meyersdale Area Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Tubmill Trout Club Unlimited | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Dunbar Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indian Creek Valley Atv Club Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Chapel Hills Wines | $9,375 | 1 | n/a |
| Lone Pine Acres | $9,122 | 1 | n/a |
| Afterburner Farm | $8,675 | 1 | n/a |
| Flax Scutching Festival | $8,500 | 1 | 12% |
| Geyer Performing Arts Center | $8,280 | 1 | 2% |
| 512 Coffee & Ice Cream | $7,811 | 1 | n/a |
| Delmont Pilgrimage Inc | $7,785 | 1 | n/a |
| Maple Bottom Farm | $7,443 | 1 | n/a |
| Pennsylvania Farm Bureau | $7,335 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohiopyle Treehouse | $7,280 | 1 | n/a |
| Saint Vincent College | $7,050 | 1 | 0% |
| Fayette County Fiber Festival | $7,000 | 1 | 36% |
| Champion Lakes Golf Course | $6,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Champion Lake Golf Club | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Monongahela River Railroad and Transportation Museum | $6,044 | 1 | n/a |
| Red Barn Winery LLC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trout Unlimited | $5,865 | 1 | n/a |
| Laurel Highlands Meadery | $5,734 | 1 | n/a |
| Great Scott Escapes | $5,696 | 1 | n/a |
| Jacobs Creek Watershed Association | $5,650 | 1 | 2% |
| Ligonier Valley Rail Road Association | $5,604 | 1 | 13% |
| Harmony Acres Dairy | $5,396 | 1 | n/a |
| Uniontown Art Club | $5,385 | 1 | n/a |
| Pepperberries | $5,325 | 1 | n/a |
| Invisible Man Brewing | $5,082 | 1 | n/a |
| Somerset County Chamber of Commerce | $5,025 | 1 | 2% |
| Farm Town Productions | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Grayson House | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Redstone Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sew Special | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Charity Navigator | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greensburg Business & Professional Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Laurel Highlands supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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 52.
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.
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA34.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation · Community Foundation of Fayette County Pa · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Robertshaw Charitable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Scott Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Allegheny Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Rk Mellon Family Foundation · The Jack Buncher 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.
About Laurel Highlands
- How much does Laurel Highlands give?
- Laurel Highlands reported 77 itemized grants totaling $1,703,807, out of $1,744,541 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 77 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Laurel Highlands fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (61%), Arts & Culture (23%), Environment (6%).
- Who are Laurel Highlands's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Fayette County Agricultural Improve Improvement Association ($488k), Greater Uniontown Heritage Consorti ($269k), Touchstone Center for Crafts ($260k).
- Does Laurel Highlands fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Laurel Highlands?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation, Community Foundation of Fayette County Pa.
- Where is Laurel Highlands based?
- Laurel Highlands is based in PA.
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