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VFW Post 2006 Home Association Inc at a glance

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VFW Post 2006 Home Association Inc

To provide services for the veterans of foreign wars and other armed forces veterans.

$87k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$266kHealth$65kFood & Nutrition$47kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kEducation$13kCommunity Improvement$8kHousing & Shelter$8k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $42,525, the rows itemized in this filing. The $87,177 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,652 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
$37,075
Median grant
1
States reached
$168k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE$37,075
CRAWFORD COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS SEARCH AND RECOVERY SCUBA TEAM INC$5,450
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE: $73k → 14%EDINBORO UNIVERSITY ROTC: $6k → 15%PROJECT HEALING WATERS: $7k → 8%Veterans of foreign wars of the US department of PA 2006 Meadville: $45k → 14%ERIE VETERANS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNCIL: $18k → 15%PROJECT HEALING WATERS: $6k → 8%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE: $43k → 14%ERIE VETERANS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNCIL: $15k → 15%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE: $37k → 14%ERIE VETERANS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNCIL: $11k → 15%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE: $33k → 14%ERIE VETERANS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNCIL: $8k → 15%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE: $26k → 14%MEADVILLE SOUP KITCHEN: $13k → 14%MEADVILLE SOUP KITCHEN: $13k → 14%MEADVILLE SOUP KITCHEN: $12k → 14%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE: $10k → 14%MEADVILLE SOUP KITCHEN: $9k → 14%WEST MEAD #1 VFC: $9k → 14%ACTIVE AGING FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%ST JAMES HAVEN: $8k → 14%CRAWFORD COUNTY READ PROGRAM: $7k → 14%CRAWFORD COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS SEARCH AND RECOVERY SCUBA TEAM INC: $5k → 14%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$378k · 4 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$378k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-68%
+193%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • VO
    VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $266k · revenue -68% · 69% of their budget
  • EV
    ERIE VETERANS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNCIL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $52k
  • MC
    MEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN
    4× · 2017–2020 · $47k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • WM
    WEST MEAD 1 VOL FIRE COgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +225%
  • AA
    ACTIVE AGING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +118%
  • SJ
    St James Haven Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +193%
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
Hereford Volunteer Fire Company Inc

Volunteer fire fighting

Health
2
Clearfield Volunteer Fire Department

The protection, preservation of life and property during emergencies as may occur in the Borough of Clearfield and surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

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4
Cranesville Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Medford Fire Dept Inc

Providing protection of persons and property from injury, loss, damage or destructon by fire. the department also provides rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Penn Forest Township Volunteer Fire Co No 1

Volunteer firefighting and emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Garland Volunteer Fire Departm

Provides volunteer fire fighting and other emergency-related services to the community

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Grandview Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Providing public fire protection and emergency rescue services.

—
9
Reader Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide volunteer fire, rescue & emergency services to the community of reader wv.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Crains Creek Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and rescue services to the citizens in crains creek and surrounding areas.

—
11
Water Valley Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide fire fighting services

—
12
Chippewa Township Vfd

The mission of the Chippewa Township VFD is to provide fire services for Chippewa Township, PA, a township with a population of approximately 9,000 people.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Pa 2006 Meadville; the most unlike its peers is St James Haven Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE: $265,675 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLEERIE VETERANS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNCIL: $52,106 · OtherERIE VETERANS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNCIL+3 more: $22,280 · Other+3 moreMEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $47,000 · Food & NutritionMEADVILLE CO…PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $12,856 · HealthACTIVE AGING FOUNDATION: $7,640 · Community ImprovementCRAWFORD COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $6,500 · EducationCRAWFORD COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS SEARCH AND RECOVERY SCUBA TEAM INC: $5,450 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$340,061Food & Nutrition$47,000Health$12,856Community Improvement$7,640Education$6,500Public Safety & Disaster$5,450

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF PA 2006 MEADVILLE: $265,675 over 7y, 69% of budgetMEADVILLE COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $47,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $12,856 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACTIVE AGING FOUNDATION: $7,640 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCRAWFORD COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $6,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCRAWFORD COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS SEARCH AND RECOVERY SCUBA TEAM INC: $5,450 over 1y, 5.5% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization VFW Post 2006 Home Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from VFW Post 2006 Home Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to VFW Post 2006 Home Association Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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