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C F Holdship Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$746k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
48
Grants FY2025
37
Organizations funded FY2024
68%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$74,571
Organizations funded a year
37 to 46
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$14M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 68% of the organizations C F Holdship Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsEducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving48$746k75%
FY202437$663k68%
FY202344$815k77%
FY202243$767k72%
FY202137$752k86%
FY202041$770k83%
FY201846$658kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$2.0MEducation$474kHuman Services$464kEnvironment$361kArts & Culture$333kAnimals$293kRecreation & Sports$258kYouth Development$177kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MT
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 191 grantees
All grantees of C F Holdship Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Frontier Nursing Service Incorporated$567,93075%
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$145,00030%
Planned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc$139,50612%
Allegheny County Parks Foundation$94,49732%
The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation$90,00024%
The George Washington University$80,00010%
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy$70,00021%
Waynesburg University$65,00020%
Children's Research Institute$60,00010%
Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc$55,00030%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$47,50020%
Broad Street Ministry$47,00021%
Fenwick Foundation$45,00034%
Planned Parenthood Keystone$45,00020%
Powerlink$40,0002n/a
Drueding Center$35,00021%
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation$35,00030%
The Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh Inc$35,00021%
Anacostia Watershed Society Inc$35,00031%
Pennsylvania State University$33,4432n/a
The Arc of Butler County$31,19220%
Humane Action Pittsburgh$30,00024%
Mobile Medical Care Inc$30,00011%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio$30,00020%
Humane Animal Rescue$30,00020%
Delaware Highlands Conservancy$30,00021%
National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc$30,00020%
Camp Possibilities Foundation$27,50035%
Turning Points for Children$25,50020%
Nine Mile Run Watershed Association$25,00021%
Edens Farm$25,0001n/a
Riverlife$25,00010%
New Leash on Life USA$25,0001n/a
Blessings of Hope$25,0001n/a
The Neighborhood Academy$25,00011%
Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc$23,02321%
Main Street Housing Inc$22,5002n/a
Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest$22,50021%
Allegheny Goatscape Inc$20,00018%
Rgisc Inc$20,00011%
Case Western Reserve University$20,00010%
Allegheny River Trail in Clarion County$20,000118%
Carlow University$20,00010%
CASA For Kids Inc$20,00014%
Tag Community Ventures$20,000115%
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts$20,00011%
Andrew Carnegie Free Library$20,0001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region$20,00010%
Hippodrome Foundation Inc$20,00011%
Community Law Center Inc$18,00013%
At Jacobs Well Inc$18,00013%
Ronald McDonald House Charties of Northeastern Pensylvania Inc$18,00017%
The Village Incorporated$17,50025%
The Student Conservation Association Inc$17,50010%
Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh$17,50010%
North Hills Affordable Housing Inc$17,00011%
Green Building Alliance$16,00011%
The Wilma Theater$15,27010%
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank$15,06110%
Humanim Inc$15,00010%
Washington City Mission$15,00010%
Grow Pittsburgh$15,0001n/a
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc$15,00010%
Federation of Neighborhood Centers$15,00021%
Family Promise of Southwest Nj$15,00016%
Squonk Opera Inc$15,00015%
Tech Impact$15,00010%
Wilson College$15,00010%
Pittsburgh Area Community Schools$15,00010%
Americas Grow-A-Row$15,00011%
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project$15,00013%
The Raptor Trust$15,00011%
Operation Troop Appreciation$15,00013%
The Maryland Spca Inc$15,00010%
Family House Inc$15,00010%
Sojourner House Inc$15,00011%
Laurelville Mennonite Church Center$15,00011%
The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc$15,00010%
Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg$15,00010%
Connectedly$15,00013%
East End Cooperative Ministry$15,00020%
Taller Puertorriqueno Inc$15,00021%
American Cancer Society Inc$15,00010%
Hhh Heroes Helping Heroes Inc$15,0001n/a
Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation Inc$15,00011%
Pa Connecting Communities$15,0001n/a
Norris Square Neighborhood Project$15,00031%
Parks and People Inc$15,00010%
Three Little Pitties Rescue$15,00010%
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh$15,00011%
Bringing Hope Home$15,00011%
Center Stage Associates Inc$15,00010%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$15,0001n/a
Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania$14,80010%
Loyalhanna Watershed Association Inc$13,50012%
Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community$13,5001n/a
Eye and Ear Foundation$13,09010%
Hopewell Cancer Support$12,50011%
Pittsburgh Conservation Corps$12,50012%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia Inc$12,50020%
St James Haven Inc$12,50016%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$12,50010%
Quantum Theatre Inc$12,50010%
Open Hand Ministries Inc$12,03912%
Growing Together Aquaponics Inc$11,80016%
Flying Horse Farms$10,79810%
Natrona Comes Together$10,737166%
Wyncote Academy$10,25010%
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation$10,00011%
Veterans Multi-Service Center Inc$10,00010%
Teach One Feed One Inc$10,00017%
Blood Cancer United Inc$10,00010%
Project Refit$10,00016%
Sharing Excess$10,00010%
Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre$10,00024%
Orphans of the Storm Inc$10,00011%
Pressley Ridge$10,00010%
Lantern Theater Company$10,00011%
Arts for Learning Maryland Inc$10,00010%
St Clair Hospital$10,0001n/a
Casa of Philadelphia County$10,00012%
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden$10,00010%
Thread Inc$10,00010%
Ursuline Piazza$10,00016%
Garfield Community Farm Inc$10,00012%
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless$10,00010%
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy$10,00010%
Upmc$10,0001n/a
The Articulate Foundation$10,00011%
Second Chance Animal Services Inc$10,00010%
Washington Humane Society$10,00010%
Community Living and Support Services Inc$10,00010%
Ruthless Kindness$10,0001n/a
Sight for All United Inc$10,00018%
The Street Dog Coalition$10,0001n/a
Humane Society of Summit County$10,00010%
The Center at Hampton House$10,00011%
Philabundance$10,00010%
Aliquippa Impact Inc$10,00012%
The Joshua Group$10,00011%
Fairmount Park Conservancy$8,00010%
The Creating Landscapes Learning Center Inc$7,57712%
Arden Theatre Company$7,50010%
Chasing the Rainbows$7,50014%
Soccer Without Borders$7,50010%
The Producers Club of Md Inc$7,50010%
Women for a Healthy Environment$7,50010%
Options in Aging$7,50013%
Baldwin Manor Association$7,5001n/a
Balletx$7,50010%
Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance$7,50013%
Glen Montessori School$7,28010%
New Sun Rising$7,0001n/a
Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County Inc$7,00010%
Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation Inc$6,0001n/a
Penn Hills Library$5,80011%
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh$5,65410%
Powerpraise Ministries Inc$5,5001n/a
Crawford County Coalition on Housing Needs Inc$5,42312%
Building United of Southwestern PA$5,048175%
Legacy Treatment Services Inc$5,00010%
Operation Warm Inc$5,00010%
Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image$5,00011%
Ehca Foundation$5,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$5,0001n/a
Healing Companions Inc$5,0001n/a
Pittsburgh Community Services Inc$5,00010%
Youth Service Inc$5,00010%
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet$5,00010%
Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc$5,00011%
Wissahickon Charter School$5,00010%
Dutchess County Spca Inc$5,00010%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc$5,00010%
Neighborhood Bike Works$5,00011%
Adoption Network Cleveland$5,00011%
Woar Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence$5,00010%
Philadelphia Young Playwrights$5,00011%
Center in the Park$5,00010%
Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Community Integrated Services$4,7751n/a
LiveConnectionsorg$4,6051n/a
Horton's Kids Inc$4,45010%
Sustainable Pittsburgh$4,00010%
Allegheny Land Trust$3,69110%
Metropolitan Ballet Company$3,50012%
Dauphin County Library System$3,00010%
Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue$2,71510%
Arch Street Center Inc$2,39710%
HopeSprings Inc$2,07210%
Venture Outdoors Inc$2,07110%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

C F Holdship Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 167 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFrontier Nursing Service Incorporated: $567,930 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetSibley Memorial Hospital Foundation: $145,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc: $139,506 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAllegheny County Parks Foundation: $94,497 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $90,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetThe George Washington University: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Parks Conservancy: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWaynesburg University: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Research Institute: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $47,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBroad Street Ministry: $47,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFenwick Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Keystone: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDrueding Center: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAnacostia Watershed Society Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Arc of Butler County: $31,192 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHumane Action Pittsburgh: $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetMobile Medical Care Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Ohio: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Animal Rescue: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDelaware Highlands Conservancy: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNational Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Possibilities Foundation: $27,500 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetTurning Points for Children: $25,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNine Mile Run Watershed Association: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRiverlife: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Neighborhood Academy: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $23,023 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest: $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAllegheny Goatscape Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetRgisc Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAllegheny River Trail in Clarion County: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCarlow University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA For Kids Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTag Community Ventures: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWhitaker Center for Science and the Arts: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHippodrome Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Law Center Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAt Jacobs Well Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charties of Northeastern Pensylvania Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetThe Village Incorporated: $17,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetThe Student Conservation Association Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh: $17,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 167.

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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.

Richard King Mellon FoundationPA59.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Wh & Althea F Remmel Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The William Penn Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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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About C F Holdship Charitable Trust

How much does C F Holdship Charitable Trust give?
C F Holdship Charitable Trust reported 48 grants totaling $745,714 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does C F Holdship Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (9%), Human Services (9%).
Who are C F Holdship Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Frontier Nursing Service Incorporated ($568k), Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation ($145k), Planned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc ($140k).
Does C F Holdship Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does C F Holdship Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as C F Holdship Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Richard King Mellon Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Wh & Althea F Remmel Foundation.
Where is C F Holdship Charitable Trust based?
C F Holdship Charitable Trust 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 240 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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