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Northwest Institute of Research
The NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH, a nonprofit research and technical assistance organization, partners with public and private human service organizations and their stakeholders to build and operate high quality, accountable, and results-driven programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 90 grants below total $961,171 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,705,993 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,744,822 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k56 grants · $285k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $570k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF GREATER ERIE | $106,590 |
| EARLY CONNECTIONS INC | $37,370 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC | $34,440 |
| ST MARTIN CENTER INC | $31,913 |
| SAINT VINCENT HEALTH CENTER | $24,540 |
| KUEHG CORP | $23,693 |
| MERCYHURST CHILD LRNG CENTER INC | $22,645 |
| TIMBER RIDGE CHILD CARE | $22,173 |
| IROCK FITNESS | $22,089 |
| MEADVILLE YMCA | $20,050 |
| FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD HERMITAGE PA | $19,320 |
| STONE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CHILD CTR | $17,715 |
| GROWING AND LEARNING CENTER LLC | $17,275 |
| HEALTHY KIDS CHILDCARE LLC | $17,152 |
| CREATIVE PRESCHOOL & DAY CARE | $16,590 |
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 (FY20–20, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
128 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2020, 69 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- CDCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +128%
- TLTHE LEARNING LAMP INC2× · 2017–2018 · $174k · revenue +109%
- SMSt Martin Center9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CCCen-Clear Child Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue +29%
- PCPENSLETON CHILD CARE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $30k
- CACHILD ADVOCATES OF BLAIR COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +36%
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.
It is our mission to provide a child-centered environment, treating each child and family with respect.
We offer a wide variety of programs and services, providing opportunities for adults and children to improve in spirit, mind and body. the ymca has childcare and preschool for children. we also have fitness classes, swim lessons, and…
Programs to benefit proper development of children including operation of child day care center.
Young Child Assiciates mission is to keep children safe and to support families in the daily care and guidance of their children. Our programs are designed to promote social, academic and personal growth using large and small group…
Provide child care services to the community for children ages 16 weeks to 12 years.
Our mission is to provide a safe, nurturing, and educational environment for children while their parents are working, in school, or in job training programs.
The young men's christian association of delaware county d/b/a the community ymca of eastern delaware county ("the community ymca or "the organization") was organized on december 14, 1948 under the laws of pennsylvania as a nonprofit…
Provide a nurturing, safe environment where children can explore and learn about their world. by recognizing each child as a unique individual, children will learn to respect others, be kind, cooperate, and share while developing a strong…
To provide an atmosphere that will enhance social, emotional, physical and intellectual skills for children in a safe and happy environment.
To meet the needs of the community by providing quality child care that encourages individual development in a safe, nuturing environment
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide structured day care programs for pre-school children. the organization is dedicated to the nurturing, care and education of infants, toddlers, and pre-school children. the center owns…
Building a stronger tomorrow through nurturing today.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community Services of Lawrence County and the most unlike its peers is Mom's House Inc of Johnstown. 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 53 years old; the field is 30. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ERIE ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING LAMP INC ↗
- Who funds St Martin Center ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST BLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOLLIDAYSBURG YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD CHILD CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TIMBER RIDGE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MEADVILLE AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds MEADVILLE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds MERCYHURST CHILD LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC DBA EARLY LEARNING CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds EARLY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Co Child Day Care Program ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Corry Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CREEK VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LAWRENCE COUNTY ↗
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: Early Connections Inc · Erie Community Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · United Way of Erie County · Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Wabtec Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · McElhattan 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 Northwest Institute of Research 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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