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Addison Gibson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
30
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 30
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$48M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Addison Gibson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’22’23
EducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving30$3.5M23%
FY202330$3.9M43%
FY202227$4.6M96%
FY20193$14k33%
FY20181$2750%
FY20174$26kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.8MHealth$5.5MReligion$500kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pennsylvania State University$635,0003n/a
Westminster College$600,00030%
University of Pittsburgh$587,98960%
Upmc$500,0003n/a
Clarion University Foundation Inc$400,00023%
Allegheny College$400,00020%
Butler Health System Foundation$387,000317%
Mercyhurst University$301,02420%
Robert Morris University$300,00020%
Washington & Jefferson College$277,55120%
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All grantees of Addison Gibson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pennsylvania State University$635,0003n/a
Westminster College$600,00030%
University of Pittsburgh$587,98960%
Upmc$500,0003n/a
Clarion University Foundation Inc$400,00023%
Allegheny College$400,00020%
Butler Health System Foundation$387,000317%
Mercyhurst University$301,02420%
Robert Morris University$300,00020%
Washington & Jefferson College$277,55120%
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc$250,00020%
Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation$240,00030%
Upmc$225,0003n/a
Upmc$200,0003n/a
Grove City College$200,00010%
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$200,00010%
Eye and Ear Foundation$200,00022%
Highlands Hospital Foundation$200,000297%
Hamot Health Foundation$190,00031%
The Foundation for Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Iup)$150,00011%
Seton Hill University$150,00010%
Waynesburg University$150,00010%
Saint Francis University$150,00010%
Gannon University$150,00010%
Carlow University$125,00010%
La Roche University$125,00010%
Saint Vincent College$112,50010%
Primary Care Health Services Inc$100,00011%
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation$100,00010%
Excela Health$92,5002n/a
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh$76,02410%
Titusville Area Hospital$75,00010%
Northwest Hospital Foundation$70,00032%
North Side Christian Health Center$62,50011%
UPMC Washington$50,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Addison Gibson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestminster College: $600,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $587,989 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetClarion University Foundation Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAllegheny College: $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetButler Health System Foundation: $387,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMercyhurst University: $301,024 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRobert Morris University: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWashington & Jefferson College: $277,551 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMonongahela Valley Hospital Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMagee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation: $240,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGrove City College: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDuquesne University of the Holy Spirit: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEye and Ear Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHighlands Hospital Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetHamot Health Foundation: $190,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Foundation for Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Iup): $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSeton Hill University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWaynesburg University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSaint Francis University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGannon University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarlow University: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLa Roche University: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSaint Vincent College: $112,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrimary Care Health Services Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Institute of Pittsburgh: $76,024 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTitusville Area Hospital: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Hospital Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNorth Side Christian Health Center: $62,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUPMC Washington: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…The United Way of Sou…Upmc GroupHillman Family Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…McCune Foundation Pnc…Eden Hall FoundationScott Foundation IncRichard King Mellon F…Eqt FoundationAmerican Cancer Socie…Verizon Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA27.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Upmc Group · Hillman Family Foundations · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Eden Hall Foundation · Scott Foundation Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · Verizon Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Addison Gibson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Addison Gibson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Addison Gibson Foundation

How much does Addison Gibson Foundation give?
Addison Gibson Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $3,522,566 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Addison Gibson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (46%), Religion (4%).
Who are Addison Gibson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pennsylvania State University ($635k), Westminster College ($600k), University of Pittsburgh ($588k).
Does Addison Gibson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Addison Gibson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Addison Gibson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Upmc Group.
Where is Addison Gibson Foundation based?
Addison Gibson Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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