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West Penn Energy Fund

Invests in the deployment of sustainable energy technologies that benefit west penn power ratepayers in pennsylvania specifically focused on sustainable and clean energy technologies, energy efficiency and conservation technologies and faciliting economic development, betterment and public education related to sustainable energy…

$887k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$154k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$2.6MFood & Nutrition$291kAnimals$130kEducation$72kCommunity Improvement$70kHealth$69kHuman Services$25kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $321k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $554k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD HELPERS$154,000
KEYSTONE ELK COUNTY ALLIANCE$129,500
CENTRE COUNTY RECYCLING AND REFUSE AUTHORITY$75,000
GEISINGER HEALTH STATE COLLEGE$75,000
PINE VALLEY CAMP$60,000
PINE VALLEY CAMP$60,000
SETON HILL UNIVERSITY$43,000
SAINT PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF PINE GROVE MILLS$39,860
THE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PA INC$34,000
NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$30,000
FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$30,000
SMITH-PLETCHER AMERICAN LEGION POST 779$30,000
KANE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$25,000
KANE DEPOT PRESERVATION SOCIETY$25,000
SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE$18,750
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MENO HAVEN INC: $25k → 9%WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $81k → 11%Fayette County Community Action Agency: $35k → 17%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $30k → 17%Fayette County Community Action Agency: $15k → 17%The New Sun Rising: $16k → 11%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $15k → 17%The New Sun Rising: $9k → 11%Fayette County Community Action Agency: $15k → 17%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $10k → 17%FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 27 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
28

Total granted

$2.2M
$619k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+15%

Still filing today

81%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $511k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • FH
    FOOD HELPERS
    3× · 2019–2024 · $291k · revenue +17%
  • SC
    STATE COLLEGE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $240k · revenue +51%
  • PW
    PENNSYLVANIA WILDS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $186k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • WF
    WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $81k · revenue +15%
  • MW
    MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +201%
  • FC
    FAYETTE COUNTY JACOBS CREEK
    one grant, 2020 · $37k

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.

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Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
2
Adamstown Area Library

The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
5
North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

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6
Scranton Public Library

Public lending library

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7
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
8
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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9
Allegheny Conference On Community Development

See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…

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10
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
American Planning Association - 36 Penns

To promote cooperation among official planning boards or commissions, civic agencies, technicians, and individual citizens interested in planning in pennsylvania.

Community Improvement
12
Penn Area Library

The purpose of the penn area library is to select, make available, and maintain resources in a variety of formats, meeting the educational, informational, and recreational needs of our community. the penn area library offers this service…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Building Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Seton Hill University. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisability & Recovery Suppo…Healthcare & Senior ServicesVeterans Social ClubsCommunity Advocacy & Suppor…Public Library SystemsCommunity Development & Rev…
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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr18%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr18%31%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%1/66
the rest of the field
7%
1,228/17,505

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

47 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. 47 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $255,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE — $120,000 · OtherPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCECOUNTY OF ELK COMMUNITY RECYCLING CENTER — $78,300 · OtherCENTRE COUNTY RECYCLING AND REFUSE AUTHORITY — $75,000 · OtherThe Historic Church of Saint Peter — $65,000 · OtherMOUNT PLEASANT FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSN INC — $64,920 · Other+34 more — $874,432 · Other+34 morePENNSYLVANIA WILDS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC — $186,392 · EnvironmentPENNSYLVANIA WILDS …KEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY ALLIANCE — $174,250 · EnvironmentKEYSTONE ELK COUNTR…MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $51,225 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN WATERSHED …AUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA — $50,000 · EnvironmentAUDUBON SOCIETY OF …GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE — $42,500 · EnvironmentGREEN BUILDING ALLI…THE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC — $34,000 · EnvironmentTHE CLEARWATER CONS…THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE — $20,500 · Environment+2 more — $23,500 · EnvironmentSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationSAINT VIN…SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 · EducationSLIPPERY …SETON HILL UNIVERSITY — $43,000 · EducationSETON HIL…CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $35,000 · EducationCARNEGIE …WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE — $34,400 · EducationWASHINGTO…SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationSAINT FRA…+2 more — $12,100 · EducationFOOD HELPERS — $290,700 · Food & NutritionFOOD HELP…FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES — $80,720 · Human ServicesMENNO-HAVEN INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISING — $25,000 · Human ServicesSTATE COLLEGE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $240,000 · Housing & ShelterGEISINGER HEALTH — $75,000 · HealthGEISINGER CLINIC — $35,180 · HealthFulton County Medical Center — $34,000 · Health
Other$1,532,652Environment$582,367Education$292,000Food & Nutrition$290,700Human Services$260,720Housing & Shelter$240,000Health$144,180

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD HELPERS — $290,700 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetSTATE COLLEGE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $240,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA WILDS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC — $186,392 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetKEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY ALLIANCE — $174,250 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $130,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE — $120,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES — $80,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT PLEASANT FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSN INC — $64,920 over 2y, 39% of budgetMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $51,225 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA — $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY — $46,400 over 2y, 14% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY — $43,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSTRAVER PUBLIC LIBRARY — $42,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetGREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE — $42,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWESTMORELAND FAYETTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $40,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetGEISINGER CLINIC — $35,180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE — $34,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFulton County Medical Center — $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC — $34,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRANK SARRIS PUBLIC LIBRARY — $32,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLUTHERAN HOME AT KANE — $32,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSMITHPLETCHER HOME ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKane Area Community Center Inc — $28,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetMENNO-HAVEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN KANE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNEW SUN RISING — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PITTSBURGH — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPA BIOMASS ENERGY ASSOCIATION — $23,735 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE — $20,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANE AREA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLilian S Besore Memorial Library — $14,990 over 1y, 19% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY CULTURAL TRUST — $14,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST — $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $11,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR HEALTH FACILITY ENGINEERING — $9,750 over 1y, 11% of budgetBROWNSVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION COR — $7,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetPP&L SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUND — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEANNETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOC — $6,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT — $5,600 over 1y, 6.3% of budget
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.

Richard King Mellon F…The Pittsburgh Founda…Community Foundation …Hillman Family Founda…The Grable FoundationThe Heinz EndowmentsNorthwest Charitable …Foundation for Pennsy…Allegheny FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Centre Foundation IncEqt Foundation
Richard King Mellon FoundationPA28.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · Allegheny Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Centre Foundation Inc · Eqt 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 West Penn Energy Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Alliance for Green Heat — 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to West Penn Energy Fund?

Find your warmest path to West Penn Energy Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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