· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BOROUGH OF VANDERGRIFT | $30,000 |
| CITY OF MEADVILLE | $30,000 |
| BOROUGH OF WILKINSBURG | $30,000 |
| SWISSVALE BOROUGH | $29,995 |
| BELLEVUE BOROUGH | $29,550 |
| GRTR WHITE HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERC | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS NORTHEASTERN PA | $25,000 |
| CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC | $25,000 |
| LOWER PAXTON TOWNSHIP | $25,000 |
| CEIBA | $25,000 |
| ALLENTOWN HOUSING AUTHORITY | $25,000 |
| SUNBURY'S REVITALIZATION INC | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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%
- CSCOMMUNITY STRATEGIES GROUP2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- BOBOROUGH OF OXFORDone grant, 2024 · $35k
- BTBETHLEHEM TOWNSHIPone grant, 2024 · $33k
- VBVERONA BOROUGHone grant, 2023 · $28k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CARBON CHAMBER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STRATEGIES GROUP ↗
- Who funds CEIBA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO CONNECTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WHITE HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SUNBURYS REVITALIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUAKERTOWN ALIVE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennsylvania Downtown Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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