· Public charity
Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation
The mission of the paa foundation is to support, enhance and promote the good works and charitable activities of the new retail motor vehicle industry in pennsylvania.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 227 grants below total $13,134,201 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,951,413 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $817,212 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k150 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k41 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+11 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK | $1,053,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $1,000,000 |
| CITY CHURCH OF NEW CASTLE | $769,404 |
| FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL | $600,000 |
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC | $535,000 |
| DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD | $500,770 |
| HOPE WALKS INC | $400,000 |
| BOROUGH OF GREENCASTLE | $300,000 |
| POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE | $300,000 |
| SUMMIT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| FOOD HELPERSGREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY FOOD BANK | $250,000 |
| HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $230,250 |
| DESALES UNIVERSITY | $225,000 |
| BISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $209,000 |
| BLAIR REGIONAL YMCA | $201,000 |
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, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +19% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
292 repeat relationships — 168 still active in FY2025, 124 since wound down; 49 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +59%
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +20%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TGTHE GUTHRIE CLINICgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +114%
- LULEG UP FARM INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +48%
- CHCedar Hill Cemetery Association Incone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -69% · 51% of their budget
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
417 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. 417 of the 538 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 LIFE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HAGERSTOWN AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD HELPERS ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Fulton County Med Ctr Foundation ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND HAMILTON LIBRARY ASSOC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WELLSPAN SUMMIT HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA BLOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE GUTHRIE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Woods Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ADAGP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PA MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds REFUGE YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Penn State Health ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH VINTAGE GRAND PRIX ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Ppl Foundation · United Way of the Capital Region · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Bruno & Lena Degol Family Found · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Cigna Group Foundation · Upmc Group
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 Pennsylvania Automotive Association 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.