Pennsylvania · 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.
- $682k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $677k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $268k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $171k | 89% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $182k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Public Benefit$795kCommunity Improvement$306kHousing & Shelter$161kHuman Services$37k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon Chamber and Economic Development Corporation | $37,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Scranton Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Strategies Group | $37,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ceiba Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Greater Community Development Corp | $37,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Centro Hispano Daniel Torres Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Allentown Housing Authority | $37,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Latino Connection Foundation | $37,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greater White Haven Chamber of Commerce | $37,000 | 2 | 46% |
| Sunburys Revitalization Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon Chamber and Economic Development Corporation | $37,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Scranton Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Strategies Group | $37,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ceiba Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Greater Community Development Corp | $37,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Centro Hispano Daniel Torres Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Allentown Housing Authority | $37,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Latino Connection Foundation | $37,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greater White Haven Chamber of Commerce | $37,000 | 2 | 46% |
| Sunburys Revitalization Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 4% |
| City of Allentown | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Easton | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Oxford | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Pittston | $34,860 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Forest Hills | $34,851 | 2 | n/a |
| Bethlehem Township | $33,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Meadville | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Wilkinsburg | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Vandergrift | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Swissvale Borough | $29,995 | 1 | n/a |
| Bellevue Borough | $29,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Verona Borough | $27,964 | 1 | n/a |
| Susquehanna Township | $26,384 | 1 | n/a |
| Albion Borough | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Monongahela | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lower Paxton Township | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Huntingdon County Commissioners | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Municipality of Bethel Park | $23,252 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Reading | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lower Saucon Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Lock Haven | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Whitehall Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marietta Borough | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Bethlehem | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Susquehanna Township | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Indiana | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Greensburg Police Department | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Quakertown Alive | $19,999 | 1 | 11% |
| Akron Borough | $19,265 | 1 | n/a |
| Churchill Borough | $18,762 | 1 | n/a |
| Royersford Borough | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Hempfield Township | $17,208 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana County | $16,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Union City Borough | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clarion Blueprint Community Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Center for Community Action | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Reynoldsville Community Association | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| New Visions for New Castle | $12,500 | 1 | 6% |
| South Fayette Township Parks and Rec | $11,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Mechanicsburg | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borough of Southmont | $9,375 | 1 | n/a |
| Quarryville Borough | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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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.
About Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc
- How much does Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc give?
- Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc reported 27 grants totaling $682,044 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (61%), Community Improvement (24%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Carbon Chamber and Economic Development Corporation ($37k), Scranton Neighborhood Housing Services Inc ($37k), Community Strategies Group ($37k).
- Does Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc based?
- Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc is based in PA.
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