Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION
DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,345 to it, the largest being DICKINSON COLLEGE ($403,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Upmc Pinnacle Hospitalsshared funderslocal
- The Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem Foundationportfolio match
- Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Incportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 52% · 2018 39% · 2019 29% · 2020 50% · 2021 40% · 2022 15% · 2023 27% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $61k → $54k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION’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
DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 50% · 2021 66% · 2022 68% · 2023 75% — 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
60% of DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
100% of DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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.
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 9 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Upmc Pinnacle Hospitalsshared funderslocalPA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 49 organizations near you
- The Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sherman and Marjorie Zeigler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Downtown Greensboro Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Community Development Finance Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Comissionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ridgeway Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Highmark Health Groupshared fundersPA · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
- McAuley Ministriesshared fundersPA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION
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.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION: 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 DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION?
- DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,345 to it, the largest being DICKINSON COLLEGE ($403,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $593,345 in grants to DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION?
- DICKINSON COLLEGE is the largest funder on record, with $403,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN CARLISLE ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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