· Public charity
Lee Initiatives Inc
Lee initiatives preserves the legacy of lee hospital by managing its resources to improve the quality of life for people in the service area of the former lee hospital in west central pennsylvania.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $547,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $766,977 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $219,377 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL FOOD FOR FAMILIES | $45,000 |
| HIGHLANDS HEALTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $45,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| CAMBRIA COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM | $40,000 |
| BETHLEN HOME | $35,000 |
| EASTER SEALS | $30,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| VETERAN'S COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $25,000 |
| PENIEL | $20,000 |
| LEARNING LAMP | $20,000 |
| CAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION | $20,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST HUMAN SERVICES | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +54% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- SCSOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +144%
- TLTHE LEARNING LAMP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +109%
- CCCAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- JCJOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET2× · 2018–2023 · $100k · revenue -59% · 50% of their budget
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHENIES-JOHNSTOWN POLICE DEPTone grant, 2018 · $50k
- GJGREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +39%
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 somerset county chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the somerset county, pennsylvania region as a superior locale in which to live, work, vacation and conduct business.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Providing meals to the elderly and needy
To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
Developing new quality community-based programs using evidence-based (research driven) practices; improving the quality of existing or evolving programs by improving program evaluation and accountability; incorporating funded and related…
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
We provide programs and services that support and strengthen Doddridge County families through interagency coordination and collaboration. These will be available, easily accessible, and located with in the county.
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
To prevent victimization, advocate for, and lessen suffering of victims of crime by providing services in a supportive, inclusive, and safe environment in fayette county.
To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…
Provide physical and mental health care services to the uninsured and promote health and well being of individuals in south central pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cambria County Child Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Seads of Love. 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 35 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 72 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 SOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING LAMP INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT FAMILY COUNSELING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT STEP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CAMP PARC ↗
- Who funds VETERAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL TOWN HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLACKLICK VALLEY FOUNDATION & AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · United Way of the Southern Alleghenies Inc · 1889 Foundation Inc · David a Glosser Foundation · Raymond Dibattista Charitable Trust · The Jacob Fend Foundation · Whalley Charitable Trust · Riggs Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Lee Initiatives Inc 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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