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Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
The mission of the pennsylvania state athletic association to provide an organizational structure that enhances intercollegiate athletics competition among member institutions in an environment that recognizes the student-athletes' academic experience as the vital part of the educational process.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $39,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $84,450 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,450 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS | $6,000 |
| SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMSUBURG UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS | $5,500 |
| WCU STUDENT SERVICES INC | $5,500 |
| CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA ATHLETICS | $5,500 |
| GANNON UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS | $5,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of your 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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
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
- GUGANNON UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +18%
- CGCOMMUNITY GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +6%
- SRSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CUCHEYNEY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- MUMANSFIELD UNIVERSITY OF PAone grant, 2019 · $5k
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +28%
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
St. john fisher university fosters a collaborative and inclusive community where students grow into purposeful leaders through a transformational educational experience rooted in our catholic heritage and guided by our basilian tradition.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Seton Hill University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY STUDENT SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY STUDENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Centre Foundation Inc · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 State Athletic Conference 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.
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