Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND
ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,368,500 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($6,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland does
Mission
Business leadership and financing - provide the business sector leadership to develop business opportunities and financing that creates and retains quality jobs in westmoreland county and the region. As a leader, and in partnership with others,egcw provides support to county companies to help grow & prosper.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Financing assistance identify potential sources of funding at the local, state and federal levels and structuring projects to obtain the greatest amount of low cost financing. Egcw facilitates the process from due diligence through closing.
$753,025 spent$207,538 earned by the program66% of program spendingWorkforce development work collaboratively with school districts, higher education, economic development and industry partners to discover and implement new solutions to better align education with the needs of regional employment clusters.
$388,102 spent34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,141,127.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $14M to $18M (+31%).
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: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% 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
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
James L Smith
President/CEO
Board chair
Kristen Kaib
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $405k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Board). These are real filings, and they are not money ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND raised.
From the IRS filings of ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND’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
ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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
ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- West Penn Energy Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND: 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 ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND?
- ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,368,500 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($6,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $6,368,500 in grants to ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECONOMIC GROWTH CONNECTION OF WESTMORELAND 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing