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Bartlett Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC | $25,000 |
| THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST PAULS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC | $5,000 |
| ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| SUFFIELD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $5,000 |
| BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,032 |
| DAN COSGROVE ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,000 |
| STRAY LOVE FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| BRANFORD COMPASSION CLUB | $3,000 |
| PURRFECT PARTNERS OF MOBILE INC | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 Bartlett Foundation’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PBPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +46%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +76%- DUDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- FCFox Chapel Area Land Trustone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -96%
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +174%
- OHOSMAN HOPEone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
At philadelphia zoo, our mission is to flourish as an urban oasis, where people and animals thrive, transformational memories are made, and our passion for conservation saves wildlife (see schedule o).guided by a three-year strategic plan,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
We strive to provide all aspects of care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals; reunite lost pets with their caregivers or seek new families for them; educate the community on humane care and interactions with all animals with the…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Challenging, educating and entertaining pittsburgh audiences by providing high quality theatre at reasonable prices, while focusing on irish, english and classical works.
The greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (gpcc) is the advocacy affiliate of the allegheny conference on community development (accd). (continued on sch o) the chamber works to improve the competitiveness of the pittsburgh region for…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Purrfect Partners of Mobile Inc. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
44 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. 44 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD COMPASSION CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds STRAYLOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fox Chapel Area Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SEWICKLEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW HAVEN CAT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CAMPS OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds PURRFECT PARTNERS OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAPPELLA CANTORUM INC ↗
- Who funds OSMAN HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Adams Foundation Inc · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43
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 Bartlett Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cappella Cantorum Inc — 10% of income from government
- New Haven Chorale Inc — 3% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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