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West Penn Energy Fund at a glance

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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…

$965k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
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.

Environment$2.6MFood & Nutrition$291kAnimals$130kEducation$72kCommunity Improvement$70kHealth$69kHuman Services$25kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $769k
$41,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARY AREA WATER AUTHORITY$150,000
KANE'S CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$127,400
JOHNSONBURG COMMUNITY TRUST$105,500
CAMERON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$105,000
WESTMORELAND COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORP$100,000
THE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTERAL PA$66,000
CAMERON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$65,467
JOHNSONBURG COMMUNITY TRUST$50,000
NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL COLLEGE$41,000
EAST FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP$30,000
SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE$24,450
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF CENTRE COUNTY$20,000
FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$20,000
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST AND BRETHREN CHURCH OF STATE COLLEGE$20,000
GEISINGER HEALTH STATE COLLEGE$16,000
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 (FY19–25, $281k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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: $20k → 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: $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
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 31 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
35

Total granted

$2.7M
$992k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+13%

Still filing today

77%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $592k 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
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • 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

  • PV
    PINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue 0%
  • WF
    WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $81k · revenue +15%
  • CC
    CENTRE COUNTY RECYCLING AND REFUSE AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
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
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
2
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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3
North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

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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
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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6
Gettysburg College

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

Education
7
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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8
Scranton Public Library

Public lending library

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9
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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10
Pike County Public Library Inc

Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania

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11
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
12
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Building Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Johnsonburg Community Trust. 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

52 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. 52 of the 74 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
35/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $255,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYKANE AREA CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $132,900 · OtherKANE AREA CHILDRENS MUSEUM INCWestmoreland Industrial Development Corporation: $124,277 · OtherWestmoreland Industrial Development CorporationPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE: $120,000 · OtherPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCECOUNTY OF ELK COMMUNITY RECYCLING CENTER: $78,300 · OtherCENTRE COUNTY RECYCLING AND REFUSE AUTHORITY: $75,000 · OtherGEISINGER HEALTH: $91,000 · Other+40 more: $1,119,255 · Other+40 morePENNSYLVANIA WILDS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $186,392 · EnvironmentPENNSYLVANIA WILDS CE…KEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY ALLIANCE: $174,250 · EnvironmentKEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY …ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $150,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING…THE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE CLEARWATER CONSER…MOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $51,225 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN WATERSHED AS…AUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA: $50,000 · EnvironmentAUDUBON SOCIETY OF WE…GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE: $42,500 · Environment+3 more: $44,000 · Environment+3 moreSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $124,450 · EducationSAINT VIN…WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $47,600 · EducationWASHINGTO…SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 · EducationSLIPPERY …SETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $43,000 · EducationSETON HIL…RURAL REGIONAL COLLEGE OF NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA: $41,000 · EducationRURAL REG…CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $35,000 · EducationCARNEGIE …SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationSAINT FRA…+2 more: $12,100 · EducationCAMERON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $170,467 · PhilanthropyJOHNSONBURG COMMUNITY TRUST: $155,500 · PhilanthropyFOOD HELPERS: $290,700 · Food & NutritionFAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $80,720 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISING: $25,000 · Human ServicesMENNO-HAVEN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSTATE COLLEGE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $240,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,995,732Environment$798,367Education$370,650Philanthropy$325,967Food & Nutrition$290,700Human Services$280,720Housing & Shelter$240,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $124,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE: $120,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE CLEARWATER CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $91,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $80,720 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $47,600 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetRURAL REGIONAL COLLEGE OF NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA: $41,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetFulton County Medical Center: $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetNORTHERN KANE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PITTSBURGH: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW SUN RISING: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMENNO-HAVEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetPP&L SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROWNSVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION COR: $7,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetJEANNETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOC: $6,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GREEN HEAT: $5,600 over 1y, 6.3% 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.

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.

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

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 West Penn Energy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Penn Energy Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home