· Public charity
Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency
Promote the washington county pa tourism industry.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of WASHINGTON COUNTY TOURISM PROMOTION AGENCY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $385,002 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $406,423 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,421 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 $10k5 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEADOWCROFT ROCKSHELTER & HISTORIC | $50,000 |
| MARIANNA OUTDOORSMEN ASSOCIATION | $31,750 |
| BRADFORD HOUSE HISTORICAL | $22,050 |
| BOROUGH OF CANONSBURG | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY CULTURAL TRUST | $20,000 |
| WEST ALEXANDER AGRICULTURAL ASSOC | $20,000 |
| CITY OF WASHINGTON | $19,500 |
| WASHINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $18,735 |
| LITTLE A TOWN ARENA | $17,500 |
| COUNTY OF WASHINGTON | $15,375 |
| SARRIS CANDIES | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR | $15,000 |
| GROUPE SEB | $10,467 |
| WORLD SERIES TOURNAMENTS INC | $10,000 |
| AQUATORIUM INNOVATIONS INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS6× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue ×16
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +177% · 30% of their budget
- HSHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA5× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- ABALWAYS B SMILING INCone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue -16%
- CECANONSBURG EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2024 · $40k · 28% of their budget
- COCITY OF MONONGAHELAone grant, 2023 · $29k
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.
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To preserve historical records.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Agricultural Fair Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Pike Trail Council. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 47 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 PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY FAIRS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CITY OF WASHINGTON CITYWIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARIANNA OUTDOORSMEN ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Symphonic Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds Little Lake Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS B SMILING INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds CANONSBURG EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTOUR TRAIL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MCDONALD AREA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AQUATORIUM INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Flightfest Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DUNCAN GLASS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds National Pike Trail Council ↗
- Who funds Little A Town Arena LLC ↗
- Who funds Claysville Area Preservation and Revitalization Initiative ↗
- Who funds MT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MON VALLEY ALLIANCE ↗
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: Washington County Community Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Pennsylvania Humanities Council · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Washington County Tourism 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.
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