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Pennsylvania Cdfi Network

The pa cdfi network is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes of providing information, advice and necessary financial assistance to federally-certified (continued on schedule o)

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
180
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Community Improvement$56MPublic Safety & Disaster$7.7MHousing & Shelter$6.8MHuman Services$5.3MHealth$2.5MScience & Tech$600kFood & Nutrition$403kPhilanthropy$233kOther$0
02FY2025 · 180 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k148 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+6 grants · $12M
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FINANTA (FORMERLY COMMUNITY FIRST F$7,124,547
PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL$3,457,947
NEIGBORHOOD PROGRESS FUND$765,447
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEV FUND$363,875
IMPACT LOAN FUND$334,447
BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL$329,520
ENREPRENEUR WORKS$242,947
THE ENTERPRISE CENTER DEV FUND$198,225
VESTEDIN$180,447
WOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCE CENT$180,447
INVESTPGH$127,500
BEECH CAPITAL$123,297
ASSETS LANCASTER$94,375
JARI GROWTH FUND$84,375
REINVESTMENT FUND$84,375
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE PROGRESS FUND: $2.9M → 10%FINANTA (FORMERLY COMMUNITY FIRST F: $7.1M → 9%THE PROGRESS FUND: $250k → 10%COMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $5.8M → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEV FUND: $250k → 10%THREE RIVERS BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $250k → 11%ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: $300k → 15%COMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $4.3M → 9%COMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $331k → 9%RISING TIDE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $438k → 11%RISING TIDE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $250k → 11%ASSETTS LANCASTER: $250k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEV FUND: $1.2M → 11%NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $846k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEV FUND: $364k → 11%BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC: $4.3M → 11%REINVESTMENT FUND: $4.3M → 22%WOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCE C: $331k → 22%ENREPRENEUR WORKS: $331k → 22%NEIGBORHOOD PROGRESS FUND: $765k → 22%AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COM: $300k → 22%NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS FUND: $554k → 22%WORC: $278k → 22%NEIGBORHOOD PROGRESS FUND: $331k → 22%THE REINVESTMENT FUND: $250k → 22%PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $3.5M → 22%NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS FUND: $278k → 22%BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL: $4.0M → 11%UNITED BANK OF PHILADELPHIA: $3.4M → 22%BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL: $408k → 11%BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL: $330k → 11%AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMM: $250k → 11%PITTSBURGH METROPOLITAN AREA HIS: $250k → 11%PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $2.5M → 22%PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $2.0M → 22%ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMER: $250k → 11%PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $331k → 22%UNITED BANK OF PHILDELPHIA: $250k → 22%THE ENTERPRISE CENTER CAPITAL CORP: $374k → 22%THE ENTERPRISE CENTER DEV FUND: $331k → 22%IMPACT LOAN FUND: $334k → 22%IMPACT LOAN FUND: $331k → 22%THE COLLECTIVE NETWORK: $300k → 22%IMPACT LOAN FUND: $278k → 22%VESTEDIN: $331k → 22%BLACK SQUIRREL COLLABORATIVE: $300k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA PROFESSIONAL IMAGE: $500k → 22%ENTREPENEUR WORKS: $278k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$61M · 28 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 162 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
1065

Total granted

$61M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

61%
1%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • BC
    BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +47% · 44% of their budget
  • PC
    PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +173% · 26% of their budget
  • THE REINVESTMENT FUND INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • PP
    PENNSYLVANIA PROFESSIONAL IMAGE ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • ED
    Enterprise Development Fund of Erie County Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -21% · 37% of their budget
  • BS
    BLACK SQUIRREL COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $300k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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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Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association

The pittsburgh venture capital association was founded in 1982 to catalyze venture investment and entrepreneurialism in western pennsylvania. since then it has become the leading voice of private equity investors in the region.through a…

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2
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
3
Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The pittsburgh metropolitan area hispanic chamber of commerce is the principal regional advocate for the hispanic business community's civic and economic interests. it is our mission to develop, promote, and advocate on behalf of hispanic…

Community Improvement
4
Chester County Economic Development Council

To foster economic growth in chester county, pa by providing means to low interest financing for new and existing businesses, site selection assistance, grant management and other services.

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5
Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce

The middlesex county regional chamber of commerce has served as the areas premier source of business networking, education and government advocacy for more than 100 years. we partner with member organizations who have over 50,000 employees…

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6
Edc Finance Corporation

To facilitate the industrial and economic development of lancaster county and act as an industrial development corporation pursuant to the pa industrial development authority act and administer funds available under the small business sba…

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7
Central Philadelphia Development Corporation C/O Center City District

To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Pittsburgh Economic and Industrial Development Corporation

The Organization's purpose is to formulate, implement and promote commercial, industrial and other economic development goals, strategies and projects in the City of Pittsburgh. This includes purchase and master-leasing of real estate, as…

Community Improvement
9
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
10
Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation
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11
Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership

To lead erie's economic evolution through access, advocacy and awareness.

Community Improvement
12
Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce

To promote economic growth in the city of danville, va and pittsylvania county area.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Community Development Fund and the most unlike its peers is Beech Capital Venture Corporation. 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr18%53%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr15%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr18%71%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr15%0%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.1%1/1,254
the rest of the field
11%
4,345/37,972

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 1,255 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
14/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC — $9,042,093 · Community ImprovementBRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INCPIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $8,471,709 · Community ImprovementPIDC COMMUNITY CAPITALTHE REINVESTMENT FUND INC — $4,846,308 · Community ImprovementTHE REINVESTMENT FUND INCTHE PROGRESS FUND — $3,473,406 · Community ImprovementTHE PROGRESS FUNDNEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND — $2,879,537 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUNDNORTH PHILADELPHIA FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS FUND — $2,023,020 · Community ImprovementIMPACT LOAN FUND INC — $1,285,943 · Community Improvement+16 more — $6,188,976 · Community Improvement+16 moreCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND — $17,781,174 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY FIRST FUNDVESTEDIN — $867,184 · Housing & ShelterUNITED BANK OF PHILADELPHIA — $3,978,312 · OtherUNITED BANK OF PHIL…THE ENTERPRISE CENTER CAPITAL CORPORATION — $903,108 · OtherTHE ENTERPRISE CENT…PENNSYLVANIA PROFESSIONAL IMAGE ALLIANCE — $500,000 · Other+172 more — $6,737,646 · Other+172 more
Community Improvement$38,210,992Housing & Shelter$18,648,358Other$12,119,066

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND — $17,781,174 over 5y, 30% of budgetBRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC — $9,042,093 over 4y, 44% of budgetPIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $8,471,709 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE REINVESTMENT FUND INC — $4,846,308 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetTHE PROGRESS FUND — $3,473,406 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND — $2,879,537 over 5y, 46% of budgetNORTH PHILADELPHIA FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS FUND — $2,023,020 over 5y, 45% of budgetIMPACT LOAN FUND INC — $1,285,943 over 5y, 36% of budgetENTREPRENEUR WORKS FUND — $976,124 over 5y, 30% of budgetWOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCE CENTER — $965,874 over 4y, 18% of budgetRISING TIDE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND — $931,325 over 4y, 38% of budgetTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER CAPITAL CORPORATION — $903,108 over 3y, 17% of budgetVESTEDIN — $867,184 over 4y, 23% of budgetMETROACTION INC — $721,621 over 2y, 54% of budgetASSETS LANCASTER — $654,354 over 4y, 18% of budgetEnterprise Development Fund of Erie County Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF PA — $300,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPITTSBURGH METROPOLITAN AREA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDA — $250,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetAsian American Chamber of Commerce — $200,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetINVEST PGH INC — $154,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER LEHIGH VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetINDEPENDENCE BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetBERKS COUNTY LATINO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR GREATER PHILADEPHIA — $72,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF CENTRAL PE — $50,000 over 1y, 61% of budget
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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Merchants Fund of…Pidc Local Developmen…Opportunity Finance N…Pidc Financing Corpor…The 30 Day Fund IncWells Fargo Regional …The Reinvestment Fund…The Food TrustThe Lenfest Institute…NAACP Empowerment Pro…Wsfs Cares FoundationCommunity Services fo…
The Merchants Fund of PhiladelphiaPA54.5× affinity39 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Merchants Fund of Philadelphia · Pidc Local Development Corporation · Opportunity Finance Network · Pidc Financing Corporation · The 30 Day Fund Inc · Wells Fargo Regional Community Development Corporation · The Reinvestment Fund Inc · The Food Trust · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Community Services for Children Inc

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 Cdfi Network 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pennsylvania Cdfi Network?

    Find your warmest path to Pennsylvania Cdfi Network through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 1255 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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