· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 77 grants below total $1,703,807 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,744,541 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,734 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k8 grants · $474k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| State Theatre Center for the Arts | $84,518 |
| Benners Meadow Run RV Campground | $64,255 |
| Touchstone Center for Crafts | $62,434 |
| Fayette County Agricultural Improve | $56,300 |
| Mountain Area Fair | $52,400 |
| Jumonville Christian Camp & Retreat | $51,406 |
| Mountain Watershed Association | $51,290 |
| Deer Creek Winery & Watson Estate B | $51,284 |
| Braddocks Restaurant & Tavern | $47,768 |
| Timber Rock Amphitheater | $47,768 |
| Ohiopyle Vacation Rentals | $46,073 |
| Neubauers Flowers & Market House | $45,000 |
| Frank Lloyd Wrights Fallingwater | $41,160 |
| Amys Quilt Room | $35,000 |
| The Perennial Project | $32,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
72 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k 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
- FCFAYETTE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL IMPROVE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $488k · revenue +89%
- MWMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $205k · revenue +27%
- GAGREAT ALLEGHENY PASSAGE CONSERVANCY5× · 2021–2025 · $168k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- SUSouth Union Townshipone grant, 2023 · $121k
- JSJENNERSTOWN SPEEDWAY COMPLEX LLCone grant, 2021 · $30k
- SSSEVEN SPRINGS MOUNTAIN RESORTone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.
To preserve historical records.
To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public
The historical and genealogical society of somerset county is the steward of the cultural heritage of somerset county through its historical collections, educational programs, and genealogical archives.
Discover and preserve the historic resources throughout the city of williamsport, pa.
Preserving the history and cultural artifacts from the Western Pennsylvania town of Leechburg.
Promote tourism in Centre County PA
Preserve, collect, research and interpret historical information and items specific to export, pennsylvania (westmoreland county)
The organization shall be anon-profit entity comprised of interested citizens and business leaders throught the region that will actively engage in the preservation of historical buildings, properties and artifacts throughout washington…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laurel Highlands and the most unlike its peers is Flax Scutching Festival. 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 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 140 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 FAYETTE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL IMPROVE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER UNIONTOWN HERITAGE CONSORTI ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT ALLEGHENY PASSAGE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE PERENNIAL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OVERLY'S COUNTRY CHRISTMAS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Westmoreland Ag Fair and Recreation Association ↗
- Who funds LAURELVILLE MENNONITE CHURCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND EDUCATION ↗
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: 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
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 Laurel Highlands 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.