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Cdl Family Foundation at a glance

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Cdl Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$285k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$845kHuman Services$505kPhilanthropy$469kHealth$418kCivil Rights$300kHousing & Shelter$285kEducation$267kYouth Development$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $285k
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$285,000
TRI-WOODS FOUNDATION$200,000
Individual grant recipient$151,500
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISH$131,875
RENEW THE I DO FOUNDATION$100,000
THE SEEDS OF FAITH CAMPAIGN$100,000
FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS$76,650
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP$75,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$56,500
LIVE ACTION$50,000
COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH THE WORKER$50,000
SISTERS OF LIFE$50,000
SUSAN B ANTHONY PROLIFE AMERICA$50,000
THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $493k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RENEW THE I DO FOUNDATION: $200k → 11%RENEW THE I DO FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%RENEW THE I DO FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%TASH INC: $3k → 11%BIRTHRIGHT OF PITTSBURGH: $15k → 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

MN
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Cdl Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Cdl Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 10 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$1.3M
$622k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+20%

Still filing today

90%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MA
    MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS
    3× · 2021–2024 · $473k · revenue +180% · 60% of their budget
  • LA
    LIVE ACTION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +9%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $64k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PC
    PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS DBA NETWORK OF LIFE
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -10%
  • TC
    The Center For Medical Progress
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +9%
  • SB
    Susan B Anthony List Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +60%
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.

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Priests for Life
Youth Development
2
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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3
Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation

The mission of Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation is to advance scientific knowledge in the fields of reproductive biology and women's health; translate this knowledge into improved health for women and infants; train current…

Health
4
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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5
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
6
Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
7
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
8
Divine Mercy Ministries Inc

Divine Mercy Ministries, Inc. is a Christian maternity home for women 18 years of age and older facing unexpected pregnancies. Open to women of all faiths, it provides a loving and nurturing environment to meet the spiritual, physical,…

Religion
9
Pregnancy Resource Center of the Poconos

The Pregnancy Resource Center of the Poconos is committed to honoring GOD by sharing the hope we have in Jesus Christ, and affirming the sanctity of every human life in the Pocono area. The Center helps pregnant women who are in crisis to…

Health
10
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Inc

The pennsylvania pro-life federation, inc., is committed to promoting the dignity and value of human life from conception to natural death and to restoring legal protection for the unborn. through legislation, education and other legal…

Civil Rights
11
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
12
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Renew the I Do Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 45 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)
25/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TUNNEL TO TOWERS: $285,000 · OtherTUNNEL TO TOWERSOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISH: $159,375 · OtherOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISHIndividual grant recipient: $151,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SEEDS OF FAITH CAMPAIGN: $100,000 · OtherTHE SEEDS OF FAITH CAMPAIGNIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSISTERS OF LIFE: $50,000 · OtherSUSAN B ANTHONY PROLIFE AMERICA: $50,000 · OtherST JOSAPHAT EPARCHY UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $50,000 · Other+16 more: $115,333 · Other+16 moreRENEW THE I DO FOUNDATION: $450,000 · Human ServicesRENEW THE I DO FOU…WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesMOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS: $472,650 · ReligionMOVE A MOUNTAIN M…+2 more: $17,000 · ReligionPREGNANCY CARE CENTERS DBA NETWORK OF LIFE: $200,000 · HealthPREGNANCY CAR…The Center For Medical Progress: $100,000 · HealthThe Center Fo…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $75,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…+2 more: $2,000 · HealthFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $100,000 · EducationFRANCISCAN U…Susan B Anthony List Inc: $100,000 · EducationSusan B Anth…FOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER: $63,500 · EducationFOLDS OF HON…College of St Joseph the Worker Inc: $50,000 · EducationCollege of S…DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $32,800 · EducationDUQUESNE UNI…TRI-WOODS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterLIVE ACTION: $100,000 · Civil RightsStudents for Life of America Inc: $50,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,061,208Human Services$498,000Religion$489,650Health$377,000Education$346,300Housing & Shelter$200,000Civil Rights$150,000

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 budgetMOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS: $472,650 over 3y, 60% of budgetRENEW THE I DO FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetTRI-WOODS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTERS DBA NETWORK OF LIFE: $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Center For Medical Progress: $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER: $63,500 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCollege of St Joseph the Worker Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $32,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity: $15,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDRY BONES MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE-RICHLAND YOUTH CENTER: $3,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTASH INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGALLY CHARITIES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetRiding for the Handicapped of Western PA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 United Way of Sou…The Pittsburgh Founda…Usher Family Foundati…J & M Didonato Family…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…Eqt FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The United Way of Southwestern PennsylvaniaPA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Usher Family Foundation · J & M Didonato Family Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Eqt Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cdl Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cdl Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Cdl Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cdl 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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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