· Public charity
The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau
Promote centre county as a place for vacations and conventions.
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 47 grants below total $943,154 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,251,038 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,307,884 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $742k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STATE THEATER INC | $77,500 |
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTSFIRST NIGHT STATE COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| CENTRAL PA JULY 4TH INC (4TH FEST) | $45,000 |
| MOUNTAINTOP SWIMMING POOL ASSOCIATON | $40,000 |
| CENTRE COUNTY GRANGE ENCAMPMENT & FAIR - TM | $35,000 |
| CENTRE COUNTY LIBRARY & HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTRE FILM FESTIVAL | $30,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $30,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTRE STAGE | $25,000 |
| THE DEAD CANARY BREWING COMPANY | $25,000 |
| BRYCE JORDAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM OF CENTRE COUNTY | $23,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - PALMER MUSEUM OF ART | $23,000 |
| CENTRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (1) - TM | $21,000 |
| DISCOVERY SPACE OF CENTRAL PA | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
64 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 24 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +55%
- STSTATE THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $342k · revenue +6%
- HBHISTORIC BELLEFONTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $333k · revenue +53% · 49% of their budget
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +7%
- UBUNITED BASEBALL INCone grant, 2024 · $13k
- NPNITTANY PERFORMING ARTS CENTREone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 centre county as a place for vacations and conventions.
The organization assists local governent agencies to promote tourism in fayette county pannsylvania by developing tourist attractions on teh national road and orther tourism areas.
Discover and preserve the historic resources throughout the city of williamsport, pa.
To provide the community of williamsburg, pennsylvania with an annual farm show and community center.
Promote artistic theater in Bedford County, PA
Community theatre that provides first run movies, stage show productions, and concerts at a low cost to the public.
To provide a local opportunity for citizens of central pennsylvania to experience a variety of american history exhibits. the museum specializes in memorabilia of united states presidents, world war ii, and general american history. the…
Organized to promote the cultural, recreational, educational, artistic and literacy needs of the residents of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Preservation
Promote Businesses and the Borough of Palmerton, PA.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Centre Film Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 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. 48 of the 85 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 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA JULY 4TH INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BELLEFONTE INC ↗
- Who funds BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN STATE COLLEGE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SPACE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL MUSUEM ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS ↗
- Who funds NITTANY MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TEMPEST PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Central Pennsylvania Tasting Trail ↗
- Who funds Downtown Bellefonte Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds MOSHANNON VALLEY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Big Cat Aquatics Inc ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY VALLEY WOMENS CYCLING ↗
- Who funds NITTANY VALLEY SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds 3 DOTS DOWNTOWN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PA MILITARY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS CHAPEL-BOALSBURG ESTATE ↗
- Who funds ROWLAND THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds PA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY ↗
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: Centre Foundation Inc · The Hamer Foundation · Garver David B for Charity - Char Tr · Firstenergy Foundation · The Louis E Silvi Foundation · The Blake and Linda Gall Family Foundation · The Poole Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau 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.