Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $601,276 to it, the largest being MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ($251,276). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $601k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Erie Downtown Development Corporation does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to serve as a real estate development and financing non-profit corporation to strengthen the core assets of the downtown erie and drive revitalization across the region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To promote the welfare of the people of the city of erie, pennsylvania (the "city").
$1,054,265 spent100% of program spendingTo combat community deterioration, provide relief to the poor and distressed, stabilize, and generally to otherwise promote redevelopment in the city's downtown.
To lessen the burdens of government of the city by overseeing projects and programs designed to strengthen and leverage the city's downtown core assets.
To improve the economy of the city by developing, attracting, expanding, and retaining business, industrial, educational, cultural, civic, community and other enterprises in the city and thereby developing, attracting, expanding, and retaining jobs for the people of the city; and solely for the above purposes, the corporation is empowered to exercise all rights and powers conferred by the laws of the commonwealth of pennsylvania upon nonprofit corporations, including, but without limitation thereon, to solicit and receive funds and any other property or interests in property by gift, grant, bequest, devise, bargain purchase or any similar transaction, and to hold, administer, invest and disburse such funds and property and such income as may be generated through the investment of such funds and property, exclusively for the promotion of health and social welfare, relief of the underprivileged, and such other charitable and educational purposes related thereto, including to use, apply, invest and reinvest the principal and/or income therefrom or distribute the same for the above purposes.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,054,265.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.1M to $17M (+176%).
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 4% · 2022 2% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Andrew S Whiting
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $125k → $25k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Erie Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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
ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 40% · 2019 40% · 2020 67% · 2021 78% · 2022 66% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION'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.
Against its field
ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 13 related entities
- North Park Row LLC · disregarded
- Npr Beverage Company · disregarded
- Bonnell Building LLC · disregarded
- Cashier's House LLC · disregarded
- 10 East 5th Street LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $601,276 to it, the largest being MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ($251,276). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $601,276 in grants to ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $251,276 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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