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Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$392k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$1.1MHuman Services$926kEducation$590kPublic Safety & Disaster$430kHousing & Shelter$425kArts & Culture$371kReligion$190kCommunity Improvement$145kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMLENTON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION$150,000
EMLENTON AREA MEDICAL CORPORATION$30,000
WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL$30,000
SCENIC RIVERS YMCA$30,000
TITUSVILLE AREA HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK OF ERIE COUNTY$20,000
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY$10,000
WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
SUGAR VALLEY LODGE INC$10,000
ST ELIZABETH CENTER$10,000
CLARION FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
CITY OF OIL CITY$10,000
KNOX PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
BOOSTERS OF CAMP CADET$5,000
KEYSTONE SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 11%ST PAUL HOMES: $20k → 13%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $100k → 14%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $75k → 14%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $60k → 14%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY SERVICES OF VENANGO COUNTY: $40k → 14%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $38k → 14%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $30k → 14%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $30k → 14%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $25k → 14%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 97% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Arthur W Phillips Trust Uwlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 32 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
75

Total granted

$2.8M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+1%

Still filing today

72%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TS
    THE SCENIC RIVERS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $433k · revenue +60%
  • SV
    SUGAR VALLEY LODGE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $315k · revenue +35%
  • EA
    EMLENTON AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $128k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • AR
    ALLEGHENY RIVER TRAIL IN CLARION COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0% · 38% of their budget
  • EA
    EMLENTON AMBULANCE SERVICE
    one grant, 2021 · $65k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Clairton Public Library

Operation of a public library which provides books, videos, periodicals and other eductional materials for area residents to use an borrow.

Education
2
Conemaugh Valley Regional Ambulance Association

Ambulance services

Health
3
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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4
Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board

To strengthen ecomonic prosperity within montgomery county, pennsylvania, by raising its visibility as a tourism destination for leisure and convention markets. the people of the valley forge tourism and covention board work each day to…

Community Improvement
5
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
6
Ebensburg Area Ambulance Association

The association operates an emergency ambulance service provided for the residents of ebensburg, pa and surrounding area without regards to ability to pay.

Health
7
DuBois Regional Medical Center

To provide the patient with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. it's the vision of the system to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality, service…

Health
8
Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation

To preserve, facilitate, promote and foster economic development within cumberland county and the surrounding regions, by providing integrated economic development and tourism marketing services to, and on behalf of, the citizens of the…

Community Improvement
9
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
10
Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership

To lead erie's economic evolution through access, advocacy and awareness.

Community Improvement
11
Erie County Economic Development Charitable Fund

To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.

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12
North Penn Volunteer Fire Company

To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prince of Peace Center and the most unlike its peers is Bridge Builders Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health & Resident…Veterans Social ClubsErie Community OrganizationsErie Community Support Serv…Integrated Healthcare SystemSenior Residential CareRegional Infrastructure & C…Regional Community Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 28. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%2%<5yr12%7%5–10yr14%8%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr23%34%35–55yr22%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%0%<5yr12%7%5–10yr14%5%10–20yr15%34%20–35yr23%21%35–55yr22%33%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
5%
132/2,507

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 122 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
36/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TITUSVILLE AREA HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $165,000 · OtherTITUSVILLE AREA HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY — $125,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSOUTHERN CLARION COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE — $125,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CLARION COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICECHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $100,000 · OtherPA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION — $90,000 · OtherALLEGHENY RIVER TRAIL IN CLARION COUNTY — $75,000 · Other+87 more — $1,545,757 · Other+87 moreNORTHWEST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $145,000 · HealthNORTHWEST HOSPI…EMLENTON AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE — $128,250 · HealthEMLENTON AREA A…HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $116,300 · HealthHAMOT HEALTH FO…TITUSVILLE AREA HOSPITAL — $100,000 · HealthTITUSVILLE AREA…WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL — $65,000 · HealthWARREN GENERAL …+3 more — $55,000 · Health+3 moreTHE SCENIC RIVERS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $432,500 · Human ServicesTHE SCENIC RI…EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 · Human ServicesEASTER SEAL S…COMMUNITY SERVICES OF VENANGO COUNTY INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SER…ST PAUL HOMES — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesEDINBORO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $145,235 · EducationEDINBORO UN…OIL REGION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $115,000 · EducationOIL REGION …GANNON UNIVERSITY — $107,000 · EducationGANNON UNIV…DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $50,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UN…GROVE CITY COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationGROVE CITY …SUGAR VALLEY LODGE INC — $315,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOIL CITY CIVIC CENTER INC — $155,000 · Arts & CultureOil Creek Railway Historical Society Inc — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCOLONEL DRAKE CULTURAL ALLIANCE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureVenango Museum of Art Science and Industry — $19,500 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOIL REGION MUSIC PRESERVATION MUSEUM DBA DEBENCE ANTIQUE MUSIC WORLD — $9,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureEMLENTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $150,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $18,048 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,225,757Health$609,550Human Services$552,500Education$467,235Housing & Shelter$325,000Arts & Culture$251,000Public Safety & Disaster$168,048

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SCENIC RIVERS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $432,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSUGAR VALLEY LODGE INC — $315,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetTITUSVILLE AREA HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $165,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetOIL CITY CIVIC CENTER INC — $155,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetEDINBORO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $145,235 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNORTHWEST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $145,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetEMLENTON AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE — $128,250 over 3y, 14% of budgetHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $116,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOIL REGION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $115,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY — $107,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTITUSVILLE AREA HOSPITAL — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALLEGHENY RIVER TRAIL IN CLARION COUNTY — $75,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetWARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY — $58,038 over 5y, 17% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE — $50,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARION COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $45,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF VENANGO COUNTY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBELLES LETTRES CLUB — $35,400 over 3y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION — $35,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AND CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF VENANGO COUNTY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVENANGO COUNTY FAIR INC — $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetEMLENTON CIVIC CLUB — $30,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetOil Creek Railway Historical Society Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetPRINCE OF PEACE CENTER — $28,300 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetVenango Area Riding for the Handicapped Association INC — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOLONEL DRAKE CULTURAL ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetST PAUL HOMES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY BLOOD BANK OF ERIE COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVenango County Association for the Blind — $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetVenango Museum of Art Science and Industry — $19,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetSENECA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $18,048 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetGAUDENZIA FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Shelter Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOIL REGION MUSIC PRESERVATION MUSEUM DBA DEBENCE ANTIQUE MUSIC WORLD — $9,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetIUP RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOXBURG FREE LIBRARY ASSOC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CLARION COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

McElhattan FoundationSamuel-Edith Justus C…Bridge Builders Commu…Northwest Charitable …Fair Frederick&Ellen …Keating Thomas - UiErie Community Founda…Upmc GroupElizabeth S Black Cha…Edward V & Jessie L P…The Pittsburgh Founda…Edith C Justus Tuw
McElhattan FoundationPA38.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McElhattan Foundation · Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust · Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial · Keating Thomas - Ui · Erie Community Foundation · Upmc Group · Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust · Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable Trust · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Edith C Justus Tuw

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw?

    Find your warmest path to Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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