· Public charity
Williamsportlycoming Chamber of Commerce
The chamber is organized to advance the general welfare and prosperity of williamsport and lycoming county so that its business community and citizens shall prosper.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of WILLIAMSPORTLYCOMING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSPORT MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AUTH | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| HIAWATHA PADDLEWHELL RIVERBOAT | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 -4% since the first grant, against -54% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- LCLYCOMING COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +13%
- MRMONTOURSVILLE ROTARY CLUB 53143× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +17% · 28% of their budget
- WAWILLIAMSPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- MAMONTGOMERY AREA MUNICIPAL WATERone grant, 2023 · $119k
- DCDrum Corp Associates Inc Drum Corps Associates Incone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -54%
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.
Discover and preserve the historic resources throughout the city of williamsport, pa.
To enlighten, entertain and enrich the community while preserving and demostrating Pennsylvanias rich historical and living cultural heritage.
Operate a public library
Promote Businesses and the Borough of Palmerton, PA.
Promoting and encouraging musical education
To make historical information about wyoming county, pa available to the public
The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lycoming County Fair Association and the most unlike its peers is Muncy Historical Society & Museum of History. 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 16 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 COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIAWATHA INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Drum Corp Associates Inc Drum Corps Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTOURSVILLE ROTARY CLUB 5314 ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSPORT AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUNCY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM OF HISTORY ↗
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: First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · 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 Williamsportlycoming Chamber of Commerce 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.