· Public charity
Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc
To build and support the capacity of local non-profit organizations, municipalities, and individuals to enhance the well-being and sustainability of pennsylvania's historic boroughs, towns, and cities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $668k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF EASTON | $35,000 |
| CITY OF ALLENTOWN | $35,000 |
| CITY OF PITTSTON | $34,860 |
| CITY OF MEADVILLE | $30,000 |
| BOROUGH OF VANDERGRIFT | $30,000 |
| BOROUGH OF WILKINSBURG | $30,000 |
| SWISSVALE BOROUGH | $29,995 |
| BELLEVUE BOROUGH | $29,550 |
| CARBON CHAMBER & ECONOMIC DEV CORP | $25,000 |
| SUNBURY'S REVITALIZATION INC | $25,000 |
| CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS NORTHEASTERN PA | $25,000 |
| GRTR WHITE HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERC | $25,000 |
| ALLENTOWN HOUSING AUTHORITY | $25,000 |
| GRTR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $25,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 17 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $427k 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
- CCCARBON CHAMBER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue 0%
- SNSCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue -18%
- CICEIBA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- BOBOROUGH OF OXFORDone grant, 2024 · $35k
- BTBETHLEHEM TOWNSHIPone grant, 2024 · $33k
- VBVERONA BOROUGHone grant, 2023 · $28k
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.
Improve the economy of the local community
To energize rural pennsylvania, enabling all citizens to innovate, create, and manufacture, building a lasting economy
Economic & community development - restore and maintain healthy economic and social conditions in the city of canton and stark county and to support infrastructure expansion vital to economic growth.
Revitalization of various neighborhoods in lewisburg, pa
Building a vibrant economy through member driven advocacy & community leadership
City and area economic development
Strategic community initiatives.
Community economic development
Business development of members, economic growth of the region, and the highest quality of life for the ocoee region of tennessee.
To present the community to the public in an engaging manner so that the commumity and all residents take pride in the growth of the city into a maturing community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Community Development Corp and the most unlike its peers is Sunburys Revitalization Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 52 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 CARBON CHAMBER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CEIBA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WHITE HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STRATEGIES GROUP ↗
- Who funds LATINO CONNECTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds SUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUAKERTOWN ALIVE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Downtown Center Inc 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.