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Summit Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGONIER VALLEY FIRE COMPANIES | $10,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI | $8,000 |
| VALLEY YOUTH NETWORK | $8,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY CHURCH | $8,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER | $4,000 |
| YMCA | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| LATROBE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| LIGONIER BOROUGH SHADE TREE COMMISSION | $2,000 |
| EAST LIBERTY FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTER I | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +26% since the first grant, against -44% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LVLIGONIER VALLEY FIRE COMPANIES6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +28%
- LVLIGONIER VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIO6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +13% · 62% of their budget
- LVLIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- LALATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLEone grant, 2021 · $3k
- VOVeterans of Foreign Wars Post 922one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -44%
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.
Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania
To provide public library services for the community, including programs, educational research and reading materials.
The conservancy is organized to protect, preserve and acquire natural resources in the lackawanna valley for the benefit of the general public.
Provide library services
Public lending library
Promoting the heritage of Pennsylvania's Internationally significant forest region and recognizing its value as a sustainable asset
Promote conservation
Venture lititz was established to serve as a community based economic development entity for the business district of lititz, pennsylvania. the organization strives to enhance the look, feel and functionality of the lititz business…
Museum
Lower macungie library strives to inform, enrich, and empower our community
Maintain volunteer fire and emergency service equipment, solicit support and acquire new equipment that becomes the property of the borough of ligonier
Conduct various programs to promote an understanding and appreciation for the history of the area as well as to preserve artifacts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley School of Ligonier and the most unlike its peers is Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 922. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 29 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 LIGONIER VALLEY FIRE COMPANIES ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER ↗
- Who funds LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE LATROBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EAST LIBERTY FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOOD BRIDGE PRE-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY RAIL ROAD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 922 ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Rk Mellon Family Foundation · Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Tomahawk Hill Foundation · Laurel Ridge Foundation Inc · Robertshaw Charitable Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Dorothy Babcock Family Charitable Foundation · Walton R Etal Trs Walton Fam Fnd-Agy · Laurel Highlands · Allegheny Foundation
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 Summit Foundation 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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