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· 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 FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 77 grants below total $1,703,807, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,744,541 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,734 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $474k
$19,111
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Latrobe 4th Of July Celebration: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 72 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
51

Total granted

$4.9M
$702k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+4%

Still filing today

49%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    FAYETTE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL IMPROVE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $488k · revenue +89%
  • MW
    MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $205k · revenue +27%
  • GA
    GREAT ALLEGHENY PASSAGE CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $168k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • SU
    South Union Township
    one grant, 2023 · $121k
  • JS
    JENNERSTOWN SPEEDWAY COMPLEX LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • SS
    SEVEN SPRINGS MOUNTAIN RESORT
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
2
Johnstown Historical Society
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3
Historical Society of Mount Lebanon

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Tour-Ed Mine & Museum
Arts & Culture
5
Biglerville Hist & Preserv Society

To preserve historical records.

—
6
Lehigh County Historical Society

To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public

Arts & Culture
7
Historical & Genealogical Society of Somerset County

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Preservation of Williamsport Foundation Inc

Discover and preserve the historic resources throughout the city of williamsport, pa.

—
9
Leechburg Area Museum & Hist Society Inc

Preserving the history and cultural artifacts from the Western Pennsylvania town of Leechburg.

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10
Central Pennsylvania Tasting Trail

Promote tourism in Centre County PA

Community Improvement
11
Export Borough Historical Society

Preserve, collect, research and interpret historical information and items specific to export, pennsylvania (westmoreland county)

Arts & Culture
12
Washington County Cultural Trust

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laurel Highlands; 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.
04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
31/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAYETTE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL IMPROVE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $487,746 · OtherFAYETTE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL IMPROVE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONNeubauers Flowers & Market House: $145,701 · OtherSouth Union Township: $121,133 · Other+96 more: $2,802,663 · Other+96 moreGREATER UNIONTOWN HERITAGE CONSORTI: $268,986 · Arts & CultureGREATER UNIONTOWN HERITAGE…TOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS: $259,802 · Arts & CultureTOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAF…THE PERENNIAL PROJECT: $129,680 · Arts & CultureTHE PERENNIAL PROJECTWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $90,097 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AME…FORT LIGONIER DAYS INC: $77,500 · Arts & CultureFORT LIGONIER DAYS INCWestmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival Inc: $76,000 · Arts & CultureWestmoreland Arts & Herita…FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION: $74,844 · Arts & CultureFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATIONLIGONIER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $73,928 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $342,891 · Arts & Culture+15 moreMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $204,810 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN WA…GREAT ALLEGHENY PASSAGE CONSERVANCY: $167,715 · EnvironmentGREAT ALLEG…REGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION: $153,978 · EnvironmentREGIONAL TR…WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $81,878 · EnvironmentWESTERN PEN…+2 more: $15,650 · EnvironmentWESTMORELAND CULTURAL TRUST: $81,000 · PhilanthropyOVERLY'S COUNTRY CHRISTMAS INC: $53,750 · PhilanthropyMOUNTAIN AREA FAIR ASSOCIATION: $52,400 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL ROAD HERITAGE CORRIDOR: $37,387 · Recreation & SportsDELMONT APPLE N ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $11,000 · Recreation & SportsINDIAN CREEK VALLEY ATV CLUB INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFAYETTE COUNTY FIBER FESTIVAL: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsWestmoreland Ag Fair and Recreation Association: $50,000 · Community ImprovementLincoln Highway Heritage Corridor Inc: $30,294 · Community ImprovementThe Redstone Foundation: $5,000 · Community ImprovementLIGONIER CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND EDUCATION: $47,243 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $7,050 · Education
Other$3,557,243Arts & Culture$1,393,728Environment$624,031Philanthropy$134,750Recreation & Sports$117,787Community Improvement$85,294Education$54,293

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAYETTE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL IMPROVE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $487,746 over 4y, 11% of budgetGREATER UNIONTOWN HERITAGE CONSORTI: $268,986 over 4y, 12% of budgetTOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS: $259,802 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $204,810 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetGREAT ALLEGHENY PASSAGE CONSERVANCY: $167,715 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetREGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION: $153,978 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetTHE PERENNIAL PROJECT: $129,680 over 4y, 41% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $90,097 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $81,878 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMORELAND CULTURAL TRUST: $81,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFORT LIGONIER DAYS INC: $77,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetWestmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival Inc: $76,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION: $74,844 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLIGONIER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $73,928 over 4y, 12% of budgetOVERLY'S COUNTRY CHRISTMAS INC: $53,750 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA FAIR ASSOCIATION: $52,400 over 1y, 36% of budgetWestmoreland Ag Fair and Recreation Association: $50,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLAURELVILLE MENNONITE CHURCH CENTER: $48,717 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLIGONIER CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND EDUCATION: $47,243 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetTHE LAMP THEATRE CORP: $45,900 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLIGONIER VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $45,031 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetMAIN STREET THEATRE COMPANY: $44,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetLATROBE ART CENTER INC: $44,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetGREENSBURG CIVIC THEATRE: $43,208 over 3y, 45% of budgetEAST END UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER I: $37,446 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL ROAD HERITAGE CORRIDOR: $37,387 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF SUMMERSOUNDS: $32,375 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetLincoln Highway Heritage Corridor Inc: $30,294 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $29,503 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetWESTMORELAND FAYETTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $28,330 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSTAGE RIGHT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART: $21,882 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLATROBE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $19,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFayette County Historical Society Inc: $19,153 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWESTMORELAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15,705 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOMERSET COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWestmoreland Performing Arts: $13,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA MAPLE FESTIVAL INC: $13,394 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetOHIOPYLE STEWART VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $11,898 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBUSHY RUN BATTLEFIELD HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $11,717 over 1y, 14% of budgetDELMONT APPLE N ARTS FESTIVAL INC: $11,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMEYERSDALE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTUBMILL TROUT CLUB UNLIMITED: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetINDIAN CREEK VALLEY ATV CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFLAX SCUTCHING FESTIVAL: $8,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetGEYER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $8,280 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $7,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY FIBER FESTIVAL: $7,000 over 1y, 36% of budget
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 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 ↗

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 Founda…Katherine Mabis McKen…Community Foundation …Richard King Mellon F…Robertshaw Charitable…Eqt FoundationScott Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Allegheny FoundationEden Hall FoundationRk Mellon Family Foun…The Jack Buncher Foun…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Laurel Highlands funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laurel Highlands. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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