The Beaver County Foundation
Beaver, PA · EIN 25-1660309. Reported 94 grants totalling $1,440,591 to 39 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Beaver County Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a corporate foundation (NTEE T21J).
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 74% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,650 and $17,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $101,300. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royally Fit LLC | Pittsburgh, PA | $135,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| First Presbyterian Church | Beaver, PA | $128,970 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beaver Falls Youth Network Inc | Beaver Falls, PA | $109,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carnegie Free Library | Beaver Falls, PA | $100,612 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Beaver Falls School District | Beaver Falls, PA | $87,552 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beaver Area Heritage Foundation | Beaver, PA | $80,086 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aliquippa Impact | Aliquippa, PA | $78,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Paramount Pursuits | Ambridge, PA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| T R a I L S Minisitries Inc | Beaver Falls, PA | $50,951 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center in Midland Pa | Midland, PA | $45,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Standing in the Gap Ministries | Beaver Falls, PA | $44,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beaver County YMCA Endowment Foundation | New Brighton, PA | $41,050 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Presbyterian Church | Beaver Falls, PA | $38,717 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Skybacher Ministries Inc | Freedom, PA | $38,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fairwood Forest | Lisbon, OH | $37,675 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community of Celebration | Aliquippa, PA | $34,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Twm Foundation | Wexford, PA | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Communicycle Beaver County Inc | Aliquippa, PA | $33,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Beaver County | New Brighton, PA | $31,677 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Young Life | Colorado Spgs, CO | $28,057 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Beaver Borough | Beaver, PA | $26,828 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hope House in Midland Pa | Midland, PA | $19,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Beaver County Cancer and Heart Association Inc | Monaca, PA | $17,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Families Matter Food Pantry Inc | Monaca, PA | $16,040 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Crestmont Alliance Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance | Aliquippa, PA | $14,025 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Church Army USA | Aliquippa, PA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Flourish Beaver County | Beaver Falls, PA | $10,451 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beaver Falls Community Development Corporation | Beaver Falls, PA | $10,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beaver County Rehabilitation Center Inc | Aliquippa, PA | $9,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Christians United in Beaver County | Beaver, PA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mcguire Memorial Foundation | Coraopolis, PA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Choices Pregnancy Services | Coraopolis, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crop and Kettle | Ambridge, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel | Los Angeles, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Premier Fight Club Inc | Sewickley, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul Central Council of Pittsburgh | West Mifflin, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Shawna Karrasch Equine | Williamsport, PA | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Franklin Center of Beaver County Inc | Aliquippa, PA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Womens Center of Beaver County | Beaver, PA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
24 of 39 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls
PROJECT AND OPERATING SUPPORT - Standing in the Gap
BUILDING AND OPERATING SUPPORT - Hope House
OPERATING SUPPORT/FURNITURE - YMCA of Beaver County
OPERATING/PROJECT SUPPORT - Royally Fit LLC
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS - Gospel Tabernacle
OPERATING AND PROJECT SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 21 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 21 | $248,777 | $9,250 |
| 2021 | 25 | $322,627 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $351,774 | $11,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $517,413 | $12,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
4 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 10 grants totalling $60,686 to The Beaver County Foundation. That is 36% of the 11 funders we can see giving to it. Those 4 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
2 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myles D & J Faye Sampson Family | Maryland | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lida S Mchattie Tuw | Ohio | $23,636 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mayer E O T Tr Uw | Pennsylvania | $11,050 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Michael Baker International Foundation | Pennsylvania | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Beaver County Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 569, Beaver, PA, 15009.
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