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The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau

Promote centre county as a place for vacations and conventions.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.8MRecreation & Sports$1.0MCommunity Improvement$760kEducation$343kEnvironment$231kScience & Tech$142kFood & Nutrition$78kHealth$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $943,154, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,251,038 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,307,884 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $742k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $153k
$17,654
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 - CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$30,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTRE FILM FESTIVAL$30,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - CENTRE STAGE$25,000
BRYCE JORDAN CENTER$25,000
THE DEAD CANARY BREWING COMPANY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF CENTRE CO: $15k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 64 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
19

Total granted

$5.4M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

56%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +55%
  • ST
    STATE THEATRE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $342k · revenue +6%
  • HB
    HISTORIC BELLEFONTE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $333k · revenue +53% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • UB
    UNITED BASEBALL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • NP
    NITTANY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pa Museum of Military Vehicles
Arts & Culture
2
The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau

Promote centre county as a place for vacations and conventions.

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3
Pennsylvania Classic Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
4
Preservation of Williamsport Foundation Inc

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

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5
Pennsylvania State Association of County Fairs

To provide the community of williamsburg, pennsylvania with an annual farm show and community center.

Community Improvement
6
Bedford County Players

Promote artistic theater in Bedford County, PA

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7
State Theatre Preservation Society

Community theatre that provides first run movies, stage show productions, and concerts at a low cost to the public.

Arts & Culture
8
Central Pennsylvania American History Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Central Pennsylvania National Guard & Veterans Association
Public Benefit
10
The Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple

Organized to promote the cultural, recreational, educational, artistic and literacy needs of the residents of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Arts & Culture
11
Cumberland Valley Preservation Soci Ety At Silver S

Preservation

Environment
12
Palmerton Area Chamber of Commerce

Promote Businesses and the Borough of Palmerton, PA.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 85 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
30/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $749,562 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYHISTORIC BELLEFONTE INC: $332,911 · OtherHISTORIC BELLEFONTE INCCentre County Grange Fair: $270,500 · OtherCentre County Grange FairCENTRE COUNTY LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL MUSUEM: $134,500 · OtherMT TOP AREA SWIMMING POOL ASSOCIATION INC: $114,000 · OtherHAPPY VALLEY MUSIC FEST: $110,000 · Other+44 more: $962,886 · Other+44 moreCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: $350,253 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL O…STATE THEATRE INC: $341,835 · Arts & CultureSTATE THEATRE INCBELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY: $182,368 · Arts & CultureBELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTR…DISCOVERY SPACE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC: $142,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY SPACE OF CENTRAL PENN…CENTRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $104,540 · Arts & CultureCENTRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET…TEMPEST PRODUCTIONS INC: $98,000 · Arts & CultureTEMPEST PRODUCTIONS INCCENTRE FILM FESTIVAL: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $262,256 · Arts & Culture+11 moreDOWNTOWN STATE COLLEGE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC: $166,513 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN …PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS: $120,000 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVA…Central Pennsylvania Tasting Trail: $92,000 · Community ImprovementCentral P…Downtown Bellefonte Inc: $85,000 · Community ImprovementDowntown …CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA JULY 4TH INC: $337,993 · EducationNITTANY MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION: $117,705 · EnvironmentTHE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC: $84,500 · EnvironmentPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC: $54,000 · EnvironmentWILDLIFE FOR EVERYONE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentBig Cat Aquatics Inc: $64,000 · Recreation & SportsHAPPY VALLEY WOMENS CYCLING: $49,000 · Recreation & SportsSNOW SHOE RAILS TO TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $21,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED BASEBALL INC: $13,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsMOSHANNON VALLEY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $65,625 · HealthCENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $40,000 · Health
Other$2,674,359Arts & Culture$1,541,252Community Improvement$463,513Education$337,993Environment$271,705Recreation & Sports$150,500Health$105,625

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: $350,253 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetSTATE THEATRE INC: $341,835 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA JULY 4TH INC: $337,993 over 9y, 60% of budgetHISTORIC BELLEFONTE INC: $332,911 over 9y, 49% of budgetBELLEFONTE ART MUSEUM FOR CENTRE COUNTY: $182,368 over 9y, 19% of budgetDOWNTOWN STATE COLLEGE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC: $166,513 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetDISCOVERY SPACE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC: $142,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRE COUNTY LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL MUSUEM: $134,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS: $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNITTANY MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION: $117,705 over 8y, 35% of budgetCENTRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $104,540 over 7y, 10% of budgetTEMPEST PRODUCTIONS INC: $98,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Tasting Trail: $92,000 over 7y, 44% of budgetDowntown Bellefonte Inc: $85,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetTHE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC: $84,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMOSHANNON VALLEY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $65,625 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBig Cat Aquatics Inc: $64,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC: $54,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHAPPY VALLEY WOMENS CYCLING: $49,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetNITTANY VALLEY SYMPHONY INC: $46,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budget3 DOTS DOWNTOWN: $45,154 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PA MILITARY MUSEUM: $45,102 over 5y, 32% of budgetCOLUMBUS CHAPEL-BOALSBURG ESTATE: $45,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetROWLAND THEATRE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetCENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPA CENTRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY: $33,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetPhilipsburg Revitalizaiton Corporation: $32,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: $30,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSNOW SHOE RAILS TO TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetCentre LGBTQA Support Network: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPHILIPSBURG HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED BASEBALL INC: $13,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE MAKERY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $12,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetWILDLIFE FOR EVERYONE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMOUNT NITTANY CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetNITTANY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHoward Fire Company No 1 Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLEMONT VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetNITTANY ANTIQUE MACHINERY ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSNOW SHOE PARK CORPORATION: $6,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetART ALLIANCE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC: $5,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSTATE COLLEGE BASEBALL CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN PHILATELIC SOCIETY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Centre Foundation IncThe Hamer FoundationGarver David B for Ch…Firstenergy FoundationThe Louis E Silvi Fou…The Blake and Linda G…The Poole FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Centre Foundation IncPA82.6× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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