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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
WOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCE CENT$180,447
VESTEDIN$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%PITTSBURGH METROPOLITAN AREA HIS: $250k → 11%AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMM: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
  • AC
    AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF PA
    one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue -40%
  • BS
    BLACK SQUIRREL COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Community Development Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 1,255 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF PA: $300,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetEnterprise Development Fund of Erie County Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 37% 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 budgetJARI GROWTH FUND INC: $84,375 over 1y, 8.6% 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
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.

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 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pennsylvania Cdfi Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennsylvania Cdfi Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1255 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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