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Pembroke Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of PEMBROKE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $201,000 |
| FUTURES ENDOWMENT TRUST | $52,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BRADFORD | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NO FELINE LEFT BEHIND | $6,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP TABLE | $6,000 |
| DERRICK CITY VOL FIRE DEPT | $6,000 |
| BRADFORD LANDMARK SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| COLT 45 STRONG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRADFORD FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $5,000 |
| CASA | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| REGINA A QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| CARE FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- BEBRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
- FTFRIENDSHIP TABLE9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +58%
- DCDerrick City Volunteer Fire Department Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- FCFREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -32%
- COCITY OF BRADFORD POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2019 · $9k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +163%
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.
The mission of bradford regional medical center is to provide the highest quality medical services in response to the healthcare needs of the region, to promote community wellness, and to restore health and comfort to patients as swiftly…
To enhance the quality of life throughout the Bradford region by facilitating, strengthening, and assisting our civic, business and government organizations.
The west bradford fire company is a volunteer fire company providing fire suppression/rescue and prevention services to west bradford, east bradford and newlin townships all in the state of pennsylvania. the fire company provides mutual…
Multi-specialty physician group practice organized to serve patients in bradford, pa, and the surrounding area.
The mission of this fire company is to prevent and extinguish fires in the borough of bradford woods, pa and assist neighboring fire companies as needed.
Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.
Provide quality, diverse arts programming to impact our communities and enrich people's lives in the twin tiers
Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, and community service.
To provide charitable contributions for the good of children in the pittsburgh and surrounding areas.
The organization provides emergency medical service and ambulance transportation to individuals in the berlin pennsylvania area.
To provide emergency fire, rescue and ambulance services to Brady Township and surrounding communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickinson Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eldred World War Ii Museum 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 41 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 97 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 BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP TABLE ↗
- Who funds Bradford Landmark Society ↗
- Who funds Derrick City Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCKEAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TIER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEAN CO PA SOCIETY OF THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NO FELINE LEFT BEHIND IN MCKEAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Colt 45 Strong Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN ELM INC ↗
- Who funds TUNA VALLEY TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS RUN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: Philo & Sarah Blaisdell Foundation · Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies · Northwest Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Bradford Area Inc · Mukaiyama Rice Foundation · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Pembroke 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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