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Manchester Bidwell Corporation

See schedule o MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION (mbc) supports its affiliate nonprofit organizations that deliver workforce training, youth arts education, jazz performances and education. Mbc provides administrative and operational cohesion and resources, which enables its affiliates to operate in a financially sound, strategically…

$583k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$559,629
Largest grant, FY2025
$559,629
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$9.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Manchester Bidwell Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$577k0%
FY20242$684k0%
FY20232$525k0%
FY20222$288k0%
FY20212$65k0%
FY20209$731k44%
FY20195$212k20%
FY20185$269k60%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$2.5MArts & Culture$419kEducation$320kCommunity Improvement$145kYouth Development$53k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bidwell Training Center Inc$2,081,798710%
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild$419,16544%
Erie Center for Arts and Technology Inc$200,000127%
University of Pittsburgh$150,00010%
Laurel Highlands Workforce and Opportunity Center$150,000130%
Allegheny Conference on Community Development$145,45790%
Buffalo Arts and Technology Center Inc$95,52032%
Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology$74,92132%
Hope Center for Arts and Technology Inc$71,25019%
National Center for Arts and Technology$53,45116%

Where it is load-bearing

Manchester Bidwell Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBidwell Training Center Inc: $2,081,798 over 7y, 10% of budgetManchester Craftsmen's Guild: $419,165 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetErie Center for Arts and Technology Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaurel Highlands Workforce and Opportunity Center: $150,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetAllegheny Conference on Community Development: $145,457 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Arts and Technology Center Inc: $95,520 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCleveland Center for Arts and Technology: $74,921 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHope Center for Arts and Technology Inc: $71,250 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetNational Center for Arts and Technology: $53,451 over 1y, 5.7% of budget

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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 10.

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…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Manchester Bidwell Corporation

How much does Manchester Bidwell Corporation give?
Manchester Bidwell Corporation reported 2 grants totaling $583,245 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Manchester Bidwell Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (73%), Arts & Culture (12%), Education (9%).
Who are Manchester Bidwell Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bidwell Training Center Inc ($2.1M), Manchester Craftsmen's Guild ($419k), Erie Center for Arts and Technology Inc ($200k).
Does Manchester Bidwell Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Manchester Bidwell Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Manchester Bidwell Corporation based?
Manchester Bidwell Corporation is based in PA.

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 10 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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