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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| NORTH EAST SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| TRIANGLE CHAPTER DAR | $11,000 |
| PROJECT LOVE INC | $7,861 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -63% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization North East Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North East Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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