Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC
COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,686 to it, the largest being AJ AND SIGISMUNDA PALUMBO CHARITABLE TRUST ($117,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $739k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $377k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Community Education Council of Elk and Cameron Counties Inc does
Mission
The community education council, together with business, education, and community partners, offers professional, academic, and personal opportunities for lifelong learning in elk and cameron counties and the surrounding areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To identify, implement, and oversee continuing efforts of providing access to resources of post-secondary education principally for the citizens of elk and cameron counties.
$498,090 spent$70,903 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $498,090.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $1.3M (+14%).
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: 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 75% · 2022 76% · 2023 70% · 2024 52% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kate Brock
Executive director
Board chair
Doug Gaffey
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $22k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC’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
COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2019 40% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 68% · 2023 89% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
25% of COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC?
- COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,686 to it, the largest being AJ AND SIGISMUNDA PALUMBO CHARITABLE TRUST ($117,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $376,686 in grants to COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC?
- AJ AND SIGISMUNDA PALUMBO CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $117,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL OF ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing