Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ORION COMMUNITIES INC
ORION COMMUNITIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,060,328 to it, the largest being GATEWAY HOUSING GROUP ($1,050,438). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $951k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $329k
What Orion Communities Inc does
Mission
Orion is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that believes all individuals deserve equitable access to life's basic needs of shelter, food, clothing, transportation, access to healthcare and respectful human interactions. For 49 years orion has offered hope for individuals and families experiencing hardship due to poverty, disability, or illness by addressing immediate crises and supporting the discovery of individual pathways to self-reliance. We listen, collaborate, and honor all people, no exceptions. Orion seeks to address systematic challenges by modeling inclusivity and belonging while seeking to ensure all voices are heard at the decision-making table.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bridge case management is the temporary or interim provision of short-term case management services to assist in a period of transition, crisis or change. Orion's clients may be homeless, hungry, in danger of eviction or having their utilities turned off. In these situations, a permanent case manager may be unnecessary or difficult to engage on short notice. In 2025, orion communities assisted 1,814 households with their immediate need for life's basic essentials.
$348,237 spent34% of program spendingFinancial assistance provides immediate financial relief to keep families afloat. From rental assistance preventing eviction, to help with utility bills that keep the lights on, to assistance with heating oil and propane to keep families warm throughout the winter, these funds ensure that families have the resources to get ahead. To assist our clients with essential personal items, we also distribute clothing, hygiene products, tents and other needed items. Additionally, orion provides access to computers, internet, phone, fax, printers, and charging stations so that clients can use these resources to find employment, enroll in benefits, connect with support systems and access additional resources.
$322,696 spent31% of program spendingStars (sharing technology advances reading skills) is a program that provides at-risk children in our community with after-school stem club and after-school book club to give children the support they need to keep pace in school and beyond. During the summer, orion also offers a stem summer camp. In 2025, we served 65 children with these education programs and gave away close to 10,000 books.
$186,830 spent18% of program spendingOrion supports single moms through glad (gutsy ladies achieving their destiny). This program focuses on building confidence and providing new strategies for parenting.
$35,547 spent3% of program spendingTechnology resource center - lack of access to technology resources can lead to a disparity gap in education, health, and finances. Orion's technology resource center provides free guided access to computers, internet, phones,and copiers/fax to facilitate bridging the gap.
$15,472 spent2% of program spendingCommunity outreach is an endeavor that assesses needs, develops strategies, and provides services that will fill the gaps to in-need and at risk populations. Community outreach also raises community awareness and develops a collaborative approach to meet the needs of the community as well as provide an understanding of the existing services. One example is offering bridges out of poverty-getting ahead in a just getting by world and poverty simulation workshops to create a network of people with a common language and understanding of local poverty. The goal is to prevent and reduce poverty with all voices at the decision-making table.
$117,013 spent11% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,025,795.
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.
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 $232k to $460k (+99%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Margarita Mirkil
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 22 funders, grant income rose $5k → $823k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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: $528k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Coalition). These are real filings, and they are not money ORION COMMUNITIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ORION COMMUNITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
ORION COMMUNITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 ORION COMMUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 41% · 2019 28% · 2020 41% · 2021 31% · 2022 48% · 2023 53% — 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
54% of ORION COMMUNITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
86% of ORION COMMUNITIES 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. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like ORION COMMUNITIES 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Community Coalition · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORION COMMUNITIES 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 ORION COMMUNITIES INC?
- ORION COMMUNITIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,060,328 to it, the largest being GATEWAY HOUSING GROUP ($1,050,438). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORION COMMUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,060,328 in grants to ORION COMMUNITIES INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORION COMMUNITIES INC?
- GATEWAY HOUSING GROUP is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,438 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORION COMMUNITIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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