· Public charity
Mon Valley Initiative
MON VALLEY INITIATIVE is a regional community development coporation representing communities and stakeholders along the monogahela river and its tributaries in three southwestern pennsylvania counties.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $216,953 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $465,124 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $248,171 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMM PTNRS FOR AFFORD HOUSE | $54,774 |
| HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES - FT WORTH | $38,308 |
| THE NEIGHBOR PROJECT | $37,929 |
| FAIRMONT-MORGANTOWN HOUSING A | $30,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING | $26,169 |
| NORTH FOLK HOUSING ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| CHANGE INC | $8,852 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PSHIP OF MER | $5,921 |
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 (FY20–24, $384k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING5× · 2020–2024 · $336k · revenue +110%
- TNTHE NEIGHBOR PROJECT5× · 2020–2024 · $192k · revenue +202%
- ICINTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- HOHOMEOWNER OPTIONS FOR MASSACHUSETTS ELDERLY INCone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -100%
- RIROCK ISLAND ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +874%
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.
Building stronger neighborhoods through homeownership, quality rental housing and community building initiatives.
Create quality affordable housing opportunities, enhance communities and provide households with skills to become self-sufficient.
Nhs is working to build the beloit, wisconsin community through programs that support home ownership, residents, and community development. nhs provides high-quality housing, lending, and educational opportunities and resources.
To develop, administer and conduct housing rehabilitation services; and to provide home ownership counseling and other related neighborhood improvement activities.
To provide healthy, sustainable, affordable housing to qualified residents of the north valley.
Community based housing program designed to stabilize neighborhoods mainly through loans to home owners unable to obtain alternative financing and construction and rehabilitation of housing, related services include technical assistance,…
Neighborhood housing services of hamilton, inc. is a nonprofit community development organization dedicated to building affordable, healthier, and stronger communities through partnerships with government, businesses, and local community…
Nphs builds resilient communities by expanding access to affordable and sustainable lending solutions. through innovative financial products and services, we empower underserved individuals and families, revitalize economically distressed…
To provide low to moderate income housing.
Chn housing capital is a certified community development financial institution serving low-income individuals and distressed communities guided by the belief that homeownership should be within everyone's reach.
Housing Partnerships, Inc creates great communities through direct investments and partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homesight and the most unlike its peers is New Kensington Community Development Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds HOMESIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBOR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds New Kensington Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NW HOMESTART INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEOWNER OPTIONS FOR MASSACHUSETTS ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK ISLAND ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION ↗
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: Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mon Valley Initiative 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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