Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,584 to it, the largest being WELLS FARGO REGIONAL FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Chester County Bar Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Gordon Charter Foundationshared funders
- Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Comissionportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 56% · 2018 23% · 2019 29% · 2020 29% · 2021 30% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% · 2024 26% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $5k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest South Eastern Economic Development Company of Pennsylvania). These are real filings, and they are not money CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
78% of CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Chester County Bar Foundationlocalportfolio matchPA · funds 12 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Gordon Charter Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Comissionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Cdfi Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Incyte Charitable Giving Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Appalachian Community Capital Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southcentral Workforce Investment Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Opportunity Finance Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jumpstart Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wells Fargo Regional Community Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$300k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- South Eastern Economic Development Company of Pennsylvania · exempt
- Chester County Econcomic Development Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
- CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,584 to it, the largest being WELLS FARGO REGIONAL FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $152,584 in grants to CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
- WELLS FARGO REGIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing