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Mon Valley Alliance Foundation

To promote and market economic development and job creation in the mid mon valley communities.

$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Community Improvement$215kEducation$44kRecreation & Sports$32kPublic Benefit$30kFood & Nutrition$27kYouth Development$14kHealth$10k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $180,480, the rows itemized in this filing. The $189,738 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,258 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.
$25,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLEROI BOROUGH$30,000
CHARLEROI AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY$28,330
FOOD21$27,000
MON VALLEY REGIONAL CHAMBER$25,150
MON VALLEY INITIATIVE$25,000
BLUEPRINTS$25,000
VOICES FOR INDEPENDENCE$10,000
GREATER CHARLEROI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVERSALWIT LLC: $14k → 9%MON VALLEY INITIATIVE: $63k → 11%BROWNSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 12%VOICES FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 15%MON VALLEY INITIATIVE: $25k → 11%BLUEPRINTS: $25k → 12%FOOD21: $27k → 11%BLUEPRINTS: $23k → 12%CHARLEROI BOROUGH: $30k → 12%CHARLEROI AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $28k → 12%FALLOWFIELD TOWNSHIP: $27k → 12%MON VALLEY REGIONAL CHAMBER: $25k → 12%MON VALLEY REGIONAL CHAMBER: $20k → 12%CHARLEROI AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $11k → 12%GREATER CHARLEROI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 12%GREATER CHARLEROI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $5k → 12%CHARLEROI TRUSTEES COMMUNITY PARK: $5k → 12%MON VALLEY ALLIANCE: $20k → 12%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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$234k · 5 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$234k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+43%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MV
    MON VALLEY INITIATIVE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $88k · revenue -66%
  • B
    BLUEPRINTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $48k · revenue -24%
  • MV
    MON VALLEY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • FT
    FALLOWFIELD TOWNSHIP
    one grant, 2018 · $27k
  • MV
    MON VALLEY ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +43%
  • UL
    UNIVERSALWIT LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
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
Monessen Public Library

Monessen Public Library provides collection facilities and services to the people of the Monessen community, which assists them in fulfilling their need for information, research sources, and cultural enrichment.

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2
Monaca Public Library

To provide Library Services to the general public.

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3
The Village Library

The village library provides resources, services, programs, and technology to enrich lives, build community, and foster success.

Education
4
Marion County Development Partnership Inc

The mission of the marion county development partnership is to provide a framework within which public and private resources can be utilized effectively to promote economic development in marion county.

Community Improvement
5
Monroeton Public Library

Provide a public library for monroeton and the surrounding communities.

Education
6
Parkesburg Free Library

The mission of the Parkesburg Free Library is to provide the Parkesburg Borough and surrounding communities with book materials and information necessary for personal growth and life long learning. We seek to guide community and business…

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7
Safety Agriculture Villages & Environment (Save) Inc

Land conservation and preservation in pennsylvania

Environment
8
Schuylkill Valley Community Library Inc

The Schuylkill Valley Community Library is dedicated to providing resources and opportunities that support the literacy, technological and leisure needs of our patrons.

Education
9
Monongahela Area Library Inc

Library

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10
Wyalusing Public Library

Provide public library services for wyalusing, pennsylvania and surrounding areas to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge and strengthen communities.

Education
11
Clinton County Economic Partnership

Economic development, expansion, job creation and to foster a climate for growth and prosperity in clinton county, pennyslvania.

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12
Mon Valley Alliance Foundation

To promote and market economic development and job creation in the mid mon valley communities. our historical longer-range initiatives of promoting transportation and industrial park infrastructure will be leveraged through public and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mon Valley Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Charleroi Community Park Fund. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MON VALLEY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $45,150 · OtherMON VALLEY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCECHARLEROI AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $39,297 · OtherCHARLEROI AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY INCCHARLEROI BOROUGH: $30,000 · OtherCHARLEROI BOROUGHFALLOWFIELD TOWNSHIP: $27,000 · OtherFALLOWFIELD TOWNSHIPFOOD21 OF PENNSYLVANIA: $27,000 · OtherFOOD21 OF PENNSYLVANIAMON VALLEY ALLIANCE: $19,825 · OtherMON VALLEY ALLIANCEGREATER CHARLEROI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 · OtherGREATER CHARLEROI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONUNIVERSALWIT LLC: $13,500 · OtherUNIVERSALWIT LLC+1 more: $5,000 · OtherMON VALLEY INITIATIVE: $87,500 · Community ImprovementMON VALLEY INITIATIVEBLUEPRINTS: $47,500 · Community ImprovementBLUEPRINTSVOICES FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10,000 · EducationCHARLEROI COMMUNITY PARK FUND: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$221,772Community Improvement$135,000Education$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMON VALLEY INITIATIVE: $87,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLUEPRINTS: $47,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMON VALLEY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $45,150 over 2y, 10% of budgetCHARLEROI AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $39,297 over 2y, 25% of budgetFOOD21 OF PENNSYLVANIA: $27,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMON VALLEY ALLIANCE: $19,825 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVOICES FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWNSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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