· Private foundation
Ceasar Puff Charitable Private Fdn
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE | $3,000 |
| WATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FUFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE5× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +81%
- MPMonessen Public Library2× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +1%
SETON HILL UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- AFAnimal Friends Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SOSISTERS OF CHARITY OF NAZARETH INCone grant, 2018 · $2k
- FOFREINDS OF UNIONTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Public Library providing educational, recreational and public services to approximately 6,000 Sewickley Township and Westmoreland County residents.
Bethel Park Public Library provides services to inform, enrich, and inspire the community through the lending of materials, programs, classes, and services such as free computer access, homebound delivery of materials, and outreach…
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
To provide library services to the residents of bethel-tulpehocken and the surrounding areas.
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community
To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.
we are an animal rescue taking in homeless pets in northwestern philadelphia, providing them with medical care, food, shelter and new forever homes.
To rescue and rehabilitate homeless animals; to provide veterinarian care, food, and shelter to dogs and cats awaiting their forever homes.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
The spca of pittsylvania county is committed to rescuing adoptable animals from impoundment and euthanasia, so they can be placed in proper homes. this is acheived primarily through vetting, fostering, and placing the animals in their…
Public lending library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Monessen Public Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 72 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 38 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 FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds Monessen Public Library ↗
- Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANGELS JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BELLE VERNON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSTRAVER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SCOTTDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT PLEASANT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PA ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
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.
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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 Ceasar Puff Charitable Private Fdn 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.
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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