Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $292k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Washington County Council on Economic Development does
Mission
Washington County Council on Economic Development (wcced) is dedicated to a mission of community economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Starpointe industrial park was being developed with the goal of selling lots to businesses that will create additional jobs in washington county. Subsequent to year-end, on november 26, 2024, the council sold the starpointe industrial park.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Starpointe industrial park - industrial park was being developed with the goal of selling lots to businesses that will create additional jobs in washington county. Subsequent to year-end, on november 26, 2024, the council sold the starpointe industrial park.
$134,163 spent22% of program spendingSba microloan programs - loans to assist small businesses with the goal of job creation. Irp and cdfi loan programs - government assisted lending to qualified businesses. Various loan programs including: benedum loan program, main street loan program, and arc project. At september 30, 2024, there were multiple loans outstanding to qualifying businesses under these programs.
$468,840 spent$181,201 earned by the program78% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $603,003.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $24M to $4.9M (−79%).
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 58% · 2018 33% · 2019 43% · 2020 88% · 2021 80% · 2022 67% · 2024 20% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Richard Sahar
Executive director
Board chair
Richard L White
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT’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.
Where its funders are
100% of WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
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
WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Small Business Administration$3.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: 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 WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?
- WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?
- CLAUDE WORTHINGTON BENEDUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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 1 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