· Private foundation
C F Holdship Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $546k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $149k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INC | $74,571 |
| WESTERN PA PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $74,571 |
| EDENS FARM | $25,000 |
| NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA | $25,000 |
| BLESSINGS OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| RIVERLIFE | $25,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| CARLOW UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| DRUEDING CENTER | $20,000 |
| CASA FOR KIDS | $20,000 |
| TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN | $15,500 |
| H H H HEROES HELPING HEROES INC | $15,000 |
| Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh | $15,000 |
| HUMANE ACTION PITTSBURGH | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $502k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 36 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k 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
- FNFRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INCORPORATED7× · 2018–2025 · $568k · revenue +76%
- SMSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $145k · revenue +151%
- TVThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation2× · 2021–2023 · $90k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue +49%
- TGThe George Washington Universitygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue +30%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVEone grant, 2023 · $75k
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
The housing alliance of pennsyvlania ("hap") has played a leading role in many significant housing policy advances. hap is an influential community of housing consumers, advocates, producers, providers, policy makers and government…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
University city district is a partnership of world-renowned anchor institutions, small businesses and residents that creates opportunity, improves economic vitality and quality of life in the university city area of west philadelphia. our…
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thread Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Village Incorporated. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
186 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. 186 of the 240 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FENWICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds POWERLINK ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DRUEDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BUTLER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Humane Action Pittsburgh ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Mobile Medical Care Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EDENS FARM ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA ↗
- Who funds NINE MILE RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
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: 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
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 C F Holdship Charitable Trust 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.
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Mobile Medical Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Project Refit — 13% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Producers Club of Md Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hippodrome Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legacy Treatment Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.