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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.

$547k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$2.0MHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $417,773, the rows itemized in this filing. The $547,418 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $129,645 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $182k
$39,486
Median grant
7
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES - FT WORTH$72,048
HOMESIGHT$55,246
THE NEIGHBOR PROJECT$54,566
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING$42,293
BRADDOCK CARNEGIE LIBRARY ASSOC$40,000
FAIRMONT-MORGANTOWN HOUSING A$39,486
COMM PTNRS FOR AFFORD HOUSE$38,096
NORTH FOLK HOUSING ALLIANCE$22,305
NEW KENSINGTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMEN$20,400
CHANGE INC$17,370
COMMUNITY ACTION PSHIP OF MER$8,736
REBUILDING TOGETHER PITTSBURGH$7,227
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $431k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY ACTION PSHIP OF MERCER: $26k → 13%COMM PTNRS FOR AFFORD HOUSE: $102k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION PSHIP OF MERCER: $10k → 13%COMM PTNRS FOR AFFORD HOUSE: $80k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION PSHIP OF MER: $9k → 13%COMM PTNRS FOR AFFORD HOUSE: $70k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION PSHIP OF MER: $6k → 13%COMM PTNRS FOR AFFORD HOUSE: $55k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION PSHIP OF MERCER: $6k → 13%COMM PTNRS FOR AFFORD HOUSE: $38k → 8%COMM PTNRS FOR AFFORD HOUSE: $30k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
WV
DE
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 11 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$2.3M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+874%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesEmploymentArts & CultureOther
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

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
    6× · 2020–2025 · $374k · revenue +110%
  • TN
    THE NEIGHBOR PROJECT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $246k · revenue +202%
  • IC
    INTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $233k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • HO
    HOMEOWNER OPTIONS FOR MASSACHUSETTS ELDERLY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -100%
  • RI
    ROCK ISLAND ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +874%
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
Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corp

Create quality affordable housing opportunities, enhance communities and provide households with skills to become self-sufficient.

Housing & Shelter
2
Neighborhood Housing Services of Beloit Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Community Housing Improvement Program

To provide healthy, sustainable, affordable housing to qualified residents of the north valley.

—
4
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc

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,…

Housing & Shelter
5
Neighborhood Housing Services of Southwest Wisconsin Inc

To develop, administer and conduct housing rehabilitation services; and to provide home ownership counseling and other related neighborhood improvement activities.

—
6
Community Housing Council
Housing & Shelter
7
Neighborhood Housing Services of Waco

Building stronger neighborhoods through homeownership, quality rental housing and community building initiatives.

Housing & Shelter
8
Community Affordable Housing Inc

To provide low to moderate income housing.

—
9
Housing Partnerships Inc

Housing Partnerships, Inc creates great communities through direct investments and partnerships.

Housing & Shelter
10
Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Chn Housing Capital

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.

Human Services
12
Community Housing Resource Partners Inc

To develop multifamily and single family housing, as well as, provide services and opportunities for low and moderate income individuals and families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homesight; the most unlike its peers is Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES OF FORT WORTH: $435,263 · OtherHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES OF FORT WORTHHOMESIGHT: $352,861 · OtherHOMESIGHTFAIRMONT-MORGANTOWN HOUSING A: $204,628 · OtherFAIRMONT-MORGANTOWN HOUSING ANew Kensington Community Development Corp: $152,721 · OtherNew Kensington Community Development Corp+2 more: $40,335 · OtherTHE NEIGHBOR PROJECT: $246,100 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEIGHBOR PROJECTINTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE: $232,655 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING …NORTH FORK HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $93,606 · Housing & ShelterNORTH FORK HOUSING ALLIANCE I…NW HOMESTART INC: $34,799 · Housing & ShelterNW HOMESTART INC+1 more: $19,373 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $374,243 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS F…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MERCER COUNTY: $56,377 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PAR…CHANGE INC: $101,202 · EmploymentBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $40,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,185,808Housing & Shelter$626,533Human Services$430,620Employment$101,202Arts & Culture$40,000

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 budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES OF FORT WORTH: $435,263 over 6y, 48% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $374,243 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetHOMESIGHT: $352,861 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOR PROJECT: $246,100 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE: $232,655 over 6y, 16% of budgetNew Kensington Community Development Corp: $152,721 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCHANGE INC: $101,202 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH FORK HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $93,606 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MERCER COUNTY: $56,377 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNW HOMESTART INC: $34,799 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHOMEOWNER OPTIONS FOR MASSACHUSETTS ELDERLY INC: $33,108 over 1y, 11% of budgetROCK ISLAND ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION: $19,373 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

Neighborhood Reinvest…Charities Aid Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Neighborhood Reinvestment CorporationDC15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mon Valley Initiative?

    Find your warmest path to Mon Valley Initiative 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 15 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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