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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.

$767k
Granted FY2022
25
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$2.0MFood & Nutrition$371kHuman Services$292kArts & Culture$133kEducation$118kPhilanthropy$115kEmployment$77kRecreation & Sports$63kOther$0
02FY2022 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $547,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $766,977 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $219,377 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.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST VINCENT DEPAUL FOOD FOR FAMILIES$45,000
HIGHLANDS HEALTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$45,000
CAMBRIA COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM$40,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$40,000
BETHLEN HOME$35,000
EASTER SEALS$30,000
ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
VETERAN'S COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$25,000
SOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK$25,000
CAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION$20,000
LEARNING LAMP$20,000
PENIEL$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
UNITED METHODIST HUMAN SERVICES$15,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $15k → 14%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $15k → 14%RUN HOME CAMPS: $5k → 16%SMALL TOWN HOPE: $25k → 16%NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $10k → 14%CAMP PARC: $23k → 14%CAMP PARC: $15k → 14%NEW DAY INC: $15k → 16%UNITED METHODIST HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 16%NEW DAY INC: $15k → 16%UNITED METHODIST HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 16%UNITED METHODIST HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 16%UNITED METHODIST HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 16%UNITED METHODIST HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 16%NEW DAY INC: $10k → 16%NEW DAY INC: $10k → 16%YMCA: $10k → 16%NEW DAY INC: $10k → 16%NEW DAY INC: $10k → 16%UNITED METHODIST HUMAN SERVICES: $8k → 16%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 30 repeat orgs$633k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
36

Total granted

$2.5M
$528k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+31%

Still filing today

33%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SC
    SOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +144%
  • TL
    THE LEARNING LAMP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +117%
  • CC
    CAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • JC
    JOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET
    2× · 2018–2023 · $100k · revenue -59% · 50% of their budget
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHENIES-JOHNSTOWN POLICE DEPT
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • GJ
    GREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +39%
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
Somerset County Chamber of Commerce

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.

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2
Wayne County Community Services Organization

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

Community Improvement
3
Meals On Wheels of Somerset County Inc

Providing meals to the elderly and needy

Food & Nutrition
4
Community Counseling Center of Mercer County

To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

Health
5
Cumberland County Communicare Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
6
Center for Community Resources Inc

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…

Health
7
Doddridge County Starting Point Center Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Center for Community Action

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Community Resources of Fayette County Inc

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.

Health
10
Family Promise of Cape May 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.

Human Services
11
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers

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…

Health
12
Parochial Medical Center

Provide physical and mental health care services to the uninsured and promote health and well being of individuals in south central pennsylvania.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cambria County Child Development Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLANDS HEALTH FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $190,000 · OtherHIGHLANDS HEALTH FREE MEDICAL CLINICST VINCENT DEPAUL FOOD FOR FAMILIES: $187,500 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL FOOD FOR FAMILIESALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATIONEASTER SEALS: $149,900 · OtherEASTER SEALSSALVATION ARMY: $141,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $125,700 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCIndividual grant recipient: $112,000 · OtherPENIEL: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $105,540 · OtherTWIN LAKES: $100,000 · OtherBETHLEN HOME: $98,814 · OtherCAMBRIA COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM: $98,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $91,000 · Other+37 more: $648,902 · Other+37 moreNEW DAY INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $67,500 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCAMP PARC: $38,000 · Human ServicesSMALL TOWN HOPE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSES: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesSOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK: $130,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $40,000 · Food & NutritionWINDBER AREA COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $7,500 · Food & NutritionCAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION INC: $85,000 · HealthHIGHLANDS HEALTH: $47,500 · HealthCRESSON AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $15,000 · HealthSeads of Love: $10,000 · HealthJOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER: $22,500 · Arts & CultureGALLERY ON GAZEBO: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LEARNING LAMP INC: $102,500 · EducationMOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationCAMBRIA COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,100 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $100,000 · PhilanthropyVETERAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,308,356Human Services$255,500Food & Nutrition$177,500Health$157,500Arts & Culture$132,500Education$124,600Philanthropy$100,000Public Benefit$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK: $130,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetTHE LEARNING LAMP INC: $102,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET: $100,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetCAMBRIA COUNTY DRUG COALITION INC: $85,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetWESTMONT FAMILY COUNSELING MINISTRIES: $72,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetNEW DAY INC: $70,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetBRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $67,500 over 9y, 13% of budgetHIGHLANDS HEALTH: $47,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP CENTER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetGREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA: $40,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP PARC: $38,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetVETERAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER: $22,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBLACKLICK VALLEY FOUNDATION & AMBULANCE SERVICE: $16,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCRESSON AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeads of Love: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGALLERY ON GAZEBO: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWINDBER AREA COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $7,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetCAMBRIA COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 SOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE LEARNING LAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSTOWN CONCERT BALLET ↗
  • 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 THE NEXT STEP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER JOHNSTOWN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CAMP PARC ↗
  • Who funds SMALL TOWN HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERAN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BLACKLICK VALLEY FOUNDATION & AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …United Way of the Sou…1889 Foundation IncDavid a Glosser Found…Raymond Dibattista Ch…The Jacob Fend Founda…Whalley Charitable Tr…Riggs Family Foundati…Firstenergy FoundationAmazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
Community Foundation of Greater JohnstownPA52.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lee Initiatives Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee Initiatives Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Lee Initiatives Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 72 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $904k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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