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Cahouet Family 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.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$276kHealth$161kHuman Services$138kReligion$116kFood & Nutrition$48kAnimals$47kPhilanthropy$37kArts & Culture$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$20,000
BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY$13,750
IDAHO FFA FOUNDATION$13,000
FEEDING THE SPIRIT$7,000
MEADOWS VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,250
HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION$5,000
MCCALL ULTRA SLED DOG CHALLENGE$5,000
WELLNESS HOUSE OF ANNAPOLIS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ADAMS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE$5,000
PENN STATE DANCE MARATHON - THON$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$3,750
BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,500
BURROWS HILL FOUNDATION$3,250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FEEDING THE SPIRIT: $7k → 10%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $25k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $23k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $15k → 11%EARTHEN VESSELS OUTREACH: $6k → 11%HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE: $45k → 11%RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $11k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MI
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
OK
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$644k · 38 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
32

Total granted

$644k
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+19%

Still filing today

53%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SV
    SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $190k · revenue +19%
  • LO
    LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $63k · revenue +67%
  • AW
    ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +41%
  • CC
    CAHOUET CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE PARKINSON'S CARE
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • WT
    WINCHESTER THURSTON
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
2
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…

Health
3
Glacier Hills Inc

We, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence in our communities.glacier hills is a member of the trinity senior living communities…

Human Services
4
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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5
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health
6
Geneva College

Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.

Education
7
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
8
Frederick Health Hospice Inc

To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community

Human Services
9
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont Inc

Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…

Employment
10
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
11
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
12
Homeward Bound Foundation

To support the charitable purposes of homeward bound, inc.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Family Institute; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNALTERED MINISTRIES: $75,000 · OtherUNALTERED MINISTRIESCAHOUET CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE PARKINSON'S CARE: $45,000 · OtherCAHOUET CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE PARKINSON'S CAREWINCHESTER THURSTON: $30,000 · OtherWINCHESTER THURSTONCHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: $25,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE NATIVITYHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INCALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,500 · Other+47 more: $216,750 · Other+47 moreSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $190,000 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COLLEGEHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $36,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE+4 more: $15,750 · Education+4 moreLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $62,500 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE M…HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE: $45,000 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY INS…RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $10,500 · Human ServicesRANKIN CHRISTIA…FEEDING THE SPIRIT: $7,000 · Human ServicesEARTHEN VESSELS OUTREACH: $6,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION: $27,000 · HealthBLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $11,000 · HealthHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $8,000 · HealthBURROWS HILL FOUNDATION TO FIGHT FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA: $5,750 · HealthCaring Foundation: $5,000 · HealthTHE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN: $26,250 · AnimalsGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $2,500 · AnimalsRESCUE 22 FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $27,000 · Food & NutritionIdaho FFA Foundation Inc: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $1,500 · Youth Development
Other$451,750Education$241,750Human Services$132,000Health$56,750Animals$32,250Food & Nutrition$27,000Youth Development$19,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNALTERED MINISTRIES: $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $62,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION: $27,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN: $26,250 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIdaho FFA Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING THE SPIRIT: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEARTHEN VESSELS OUTREACH: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFoster Love Project: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBURROWS HILL FOUNDATION TO FIGHT FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA: $5,750 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcCall Ultra Sled Dog Challenge Llc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCaring Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEWICKLEY CEMETERY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArnold Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOR GOOD PGH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $2,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY BUILDERS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERNIE HOUSE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSNOWDON WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARTWELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNALTERED MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Idaho FFA Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING THE SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds EARTHEN VESSELS OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Foster Love Project ↗
  • Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BURROWS HILL FOUNDATION TO FIGHT FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA ↗
  • Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds McCall Ultra Sled Dog Challenge Llc ↗

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…Tickets for Kids Foun…The United Way of Sou…The Grable FoundationHillman Family Founda…World Vision IncAmerican Gift FundT Rowe Price Program …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Tickets for Kids Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · World Vision Inc · American Gift Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cahouet Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cahouet Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore: 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
10report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cahouet Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cahouet Family 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.

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 78 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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