How much did THE HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE BUREAU grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE BUREAU’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $67k
$10k–50k41 grants · $806k
$50k–250k2 grants · $153k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE STATE THEATRE INC - TM$77,500
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTSFIRST NIGHT STATE COLLEGE$75,000
CENTRAL PA JULY 4TH INC (4TH FEST)$45,000
MOUNTAIN TOP SWIMMING POOL ASSOCIATION$40,000
CENTRE COUNTY LIBRARY & HISTORICAL MUSEUM$35,000
CENTRE COUNTY GRANGE ENCAMPMENT & FAIR - TM$35,000
BRYCE JORDAN CENTER$35,000
LUCKY DOG MANAGEMENT - HAPPY VALLEY MUSIC FEST$30,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$30,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTRE FILM FESTIVAL$30,000
THE DEAD CANARY BREWING COMPANY - TE$25,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTRE STAGE$25,000
BELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM OF CENTRE COUNTY - TE$23,600
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - PALMER MUSEUM OF ART$23,000
CENTRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (1) - TM$21,040

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.9M · 52 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.9M

$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+103%

Still filing today

56%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

HB
HISTORIC BELLEFONTE INCORPORATED
7× · 2018–2024 · $278k · revenue +53% · 49% of their budget
TS
THE STATE THEATRE INC - TM
7× · 2018–2024 · $248k · revenue +16%
FN
FIRST NIGHT STATE COLLEGE
7× · 2018–2024 · $229k · revenue +45%

Funded once

PA
PA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTUREgraduated
4× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +1823%
YO
YMCA OF CENTRE CO
3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +16%
NP
NITTANY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Central Pennsylvania Community

Perpetual community fund to aid civic & charitable projects

Philanthropy

Pa Museum of Military Vehicles

Arts & Culture

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Inc

The mission of the pennsylvania trolley museum is to preserve and perpetuate its collection of historic transportation equipment, artifacts and archives and utilize the collection and other resources to provide an unparalleled immersive…

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The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

The pennsylvania horticultural society connects people with horticulture and together we create beautiful, healthy and sustainable communities.

Environment

Muncy Historical Society & Museum of History

Preservation of history and heritage of muncy, pa

—

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

As the first art museum and school in the us, pafa celebrates the transformative power of art and art-making.

Education

Bedford County Players

Promote artistic theater in Bedford County, PA

—

Delaware County Historical Society

To promote and sustain interest in the history of delaware county, ohio through historical preservation and education.

—

Pennsylvania Classic Foundation

The organization assists local government agencies in promoting tourism is fayette county pennsylvania

Philanthropy

Pennsylvania Playhouse Inc

Promote the Arts

Arts & Culture

Preservation of Williamsport

Discover and preserve the historic resources throughout the city of williamsport, pa.

—

Main Line Art Center

To inspire and engage artistic creativity for all ages and abilities and to celebrate and strengthen the essential role of visual art in community life.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centre County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Columbus Chapel-Boalsburg Estate. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/85

the rest of the field

58/887

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.

04the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/46

Grantees still filing

36/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,024,559Arts & Culture$1,151,919Community Improvement$356,500Education$244,000Environment$214,705Recreation & Sports$133,500Health$64,000

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.

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.

Centre Foundation IncPA86.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centre Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · The Hamer Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA JULY 4TH INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 251875596 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA JULY 4TH INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau?

Find your warmest path to The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE BUREAU

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau?

More from the funding graph

THE HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE BUREAU

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau?

More from the funding graph