Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Mar 1993.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
84 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
42 people listed on the 990; $2.1M paid to officers and key staff.
Daniel Betancourt’s $385K as President & is at the 89th percentile of top reported officer pay among 676 $10–100M housing nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Betancourt | $385,375 | $363,943 | $313,572 | $307,238 | $275,612 | $242,784 |
| Joan Brodhead | $208,549 | $206,704 | $177,389 | $167,235 | $208,928 | $149,447 |
| Jonathan Encarnacion | $206,465 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Edward Gallagher | $197,850 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dragan Dodik | $187,621 | — | $104,593 | — | — | — |
| Anthony Pappion | — | $58,794 | $182,938 | $166,513 | $110,197 | — |
| Elizabeth Bennett | $180,091 | $9,176 | — | — | — | — |
| James Buerger | $167,679 | $158,342 | $142,517 | $155,311 | $163,163 | $152,000 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Provides loans and technical assistance to housing and economic development projects that benefit low-income individuals and drive social and economic progress in Pennsylvania.
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Community first fund promotes community and economic development by providing affordable loans to entities throughout central and eastern pennsylvania, including small businesses, developers of affordable housing, community-based organizations, women, people of color.
Community first fund promotes community and ecenomic development by providing affordable loans to entities throughout central and eastern pennsylvania, including small businesses, developers of affordable housing, community-based organizations, women, people of color.
New markets tax credit program to date the organization was granted 90 million of new markets tax credit allocation from the us treasury. The organization has entered into agreements with investor members to fund 14 new markets tax credit projects throughout central and eastern pa. Six projects are remaining at 6/30/2023.
New markets tax credit program to date the organization was granted 90 million of new markets tax credit allocation from the us treasury. The organization has entered into agreements with investor members to fund 14 new markets tax credit projects throughout central and eastern pa. Six projects are remaining at 6/30/2023.
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
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By the numbers
The FY2023 990, line by line.
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Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest | $40.0M | $34.7M | $5.3M | $59.0M | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 | $22.6M | $14.7M | $7.9M | $55.3M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 Viewing | $17.3M | $13.0M | $4.3M | $40.8M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $17.5M | $8.1M | $9.3M | $57.9M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $45.0M | $34.8M | $10.2M | $48.4M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 | $12.6M | $10.8M | $1.8M | $18.3M | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2023 990 (1 part)
Part VI · Governance 13 of 14 board members independent, no flags
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2023 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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