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North East Community Foundation
The mission of the NORTH EAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to assist a diverse group of donors in improving the quality of life in and around north east by creating endowments making it easy to carry out the donors' philanthropic interests in a professional and timely manner.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $416,612 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $516,086 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,474 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 $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FULLER HOSE COMPANY | $102,217 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION - ERIE | $50,000 |
| DOWNTOWN NORTH EAST INC | $31,156 |
| ERIE PHILHARMONIC | $28,500 |
| NORTH EAST EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $26,264 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NWPA | $24,000 |
| CRESCENT HOSE CO | $18,859 |
| PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,630 |
| MCCORD MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $15,069 |
| 4 NINE PLACE | $14,000 |
| DOOR STUDENT SERVICES INC | $13,529 |
| NORTH EAST ARTS COUNCIL | $13,013 |
| TRIANGLE CHAPTER DAR | $11,000 |
| NORTH EAST SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| PROJECT LOVE INC | $7,861 |
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 (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -63% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- NENORTH EAST EDUCATION FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +43% · 37% of their budget
- NENorth East Arts Council8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +103% · 60% of their budget
- EPErie Philharmonic Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $121k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- GCGROUP CARESone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -63%
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF NORTH EASTone grant, 2017 · $6k
- OBORCHARD BEACH ASSEMBLYone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
To create a highly-skilled workforce in Northeastern Pennsylvania through the integration of school employment and training processes.
The Northeast Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing access to primary healthcare and contributing toward the quality of health for people in our region, especially in rural and…
The Organization was formed to retain existing businesses within Northeastern PA and assist businesses interested in locating within PA. The Organization also strives to attract and retain people within the Commonwealth of PA.
West Ridge Fire Department is a volunteer department that is located in the southwestern Millcreek Township, a western suburb of Erie, Pennsylvania. Currently, Millcreek Township is the 2nd biggest municipality in Erie County with a…
The mission of the North Warren Emergency Squad, Inc. is to provide the highest quality emergency medical services care in the most expedient manner. We are a non-profit EMS
To preserve life and promote health and safety in our community.
The mission of the north east community foundation is to assist a diverse group of donors in improving the quality of life in and around north east by creating endowments making it easy to carry out the donors' philanthropic interests in a…
We are a volunteer-based professional organization that provides prehospital medical care to the citizens of the North Shore of Oneida Lake, and surrounding areas. We provide skilled, compassionate basic and advanced life support services,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Shore Railway Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 Lake Shore Railway Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FULLER HOSE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
- Who funds Downtown North East Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH EAST EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North East Arts Council ↗
- Who funds Erie Philharmonic Inc ↗
- Who funds McCord Memorial Library Association ↗
- Who funds 4 NINE PLACE ↗
- Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT HOSE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Erie County ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR STUDENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICES OF NORTH EAST ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds GROUP CARES ↗
- Who funds North East Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
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: Erie Community Foundation · Orris C&B Dewey Hirtzel Memorial Fd · Robert S & Janet L Miller Family Fdn · Wabtec Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 North East Community Foundation 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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