Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
POWERLINK
POWERLINK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,500 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($97,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trustshared funders
- Great Rivers Community Trustportfolio match
- Women's Business Development Centerportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $98k → $28k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 POWERLINK’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
POWERLINK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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 POWERLINK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2021 54% — 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
62% of POWERLINK's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $65k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trustshared fundersPA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Great Rivers Community Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Business Development Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Reinvestment Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vilcap Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jumpstart Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Cdfi Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Edgeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Community Capital Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Goldman Sachs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association for Microenterprise Opportunityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 POWERLINK
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
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 POWERLINK: 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 POWERLINK?
- POWERLINK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,500 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($97,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POWERLINK have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $169,500 in grants to POWERLINK, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POWERLINK?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $97,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POWERLINK 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 5funders 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