· Public charity
Tioga County Tourist Promotion Agency
To actively market tioga and potter counties as a desirable destination for travelers and visitors and supporting the tourism industry to positively impact the regional economy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $14,224 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $99,390 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,166 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 |
|---|---|
| ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL | $8,862 |
| PARTNERS IN PROGRESS INC (HIGHLAND CHOCOLATES) | $5,362 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- EMENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +152%
- WAWELLSBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +13%
- PLPENNSYLVANIA LUMBER MUSEUM ASSOCIATES3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CUCOMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2024 · $8k
- RRRootstock Racinggraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +48%
- BSBLOSSBURG STATE COAL FESTIVALone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Tourism and promotion
Promotion of economic development in and throughout wayne county, pa
Local historical education operation of a museum and provision of education relating to the history of tioga county pennsylvania
To maintain and enhance the unique rural character and culture of the endless mountains.
Promote tourism
Promote Businesses and the Borough of Palmerton, PA.
The gettysburg adams chamber of commerce supports and strengthens our members and the adams county area by promoting diverse economic opportunities through advocacy, building relationships, providing timely information and developing…
Promote tourism/economic development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Endless Mountain Music Festival Inc and the most unlike its peers is Potter County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA LUMBER MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POTTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TIOGA COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Rootstock Racing ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds GROWTH RESOURCES OF WELLSBORO FOUNDATION ↗
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: Horace B Packer Foundation 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 organization Tioga County Tourist Promotion Agency 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.