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Ceasar Puff Charitable Private Fdn at a glance

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Ceasar Puff Charitable Private Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$88kAnimals$22kFood & Nutrition$10kReligion$6kHuman Services$6kHealth$4kCivil Rights$4kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$387k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE$3,000
WATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA$2,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PA: $2k → 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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 18 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
18

Total granted

$105k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+32%

Still filing today

50%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • FU
    FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE
    5× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +81%
  • MP
    Monessen Public Library
    2× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +1%
  • AJ
    ANGELS JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL RESCUE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +222%

Funded once

  • AF
    Animal Friends Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -22%
  • WA
    WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • HA
    HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +32%
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
Sewickley Township Public Library

Public Library providing educational, recreational and public services to approximately 6,000 Sewickley Township and Westmoreland County residents.

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2
Public Library Association of Bethel Park

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…

Education
3
Humane Pennsylvania

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.

Animals
4
Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library

To provide library services to the residents of bethel-tulpehocken and the surrounding areas.

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5
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

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.

Animals
6
Western Pocono Community Library

Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community

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7
Central Pennsylvania Humane Society

To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.

Animals
8
Familiar Hearts Animal Society

we are an animal rescue taking in homeless pets in northwestern philadelphia, providing them with medical care, food, shelter and new forever homes.

Animals
9
Heal Animal Rescue

To rescue and rehabilitate homeless animals; to provide veterinarian care, food, and shelter to dogs and cats awaiting their forever homes.

Animals
10
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society

Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.

Animals
11
Spca of Pittsylvania County Inc

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…

Animals
12
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST SCHOOL: $8,000 · OtherST JOHN THE EVANGELIST SCHOOLMonessen Public Library: $7,000 · OtherMonessen Public LibraryCLELIAN HEIGHTS SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherCLELIAN HEIGHTS SCHOOLST URSULA'S FOOD PANTRY: $6,000 · OtherST URSULA'S FOOD PANTRYANIMAL FRIENDS OFWESTMORELAND COUNTY: $6,000 · OtherANIMAL FRIENDS OFWESTMORELAND COUNTYBELLE VERNON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · OtherBELLE VERNON LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONST SEBASTIAN REGIONAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $4,000 · OtherST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $4,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherCLELIAN HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL: $4,000 · OtherGIEBEL CATHOLIC JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL: $4,000 · OtherROSTRAVER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 · OtherAFNCWV INC: $4,000 · Other+11 more: $22,000 · Other+11 moreFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $15,000 · EducationFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY …SETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationSETON HILL UNIVERSITYSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COLLEGESCOTTDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 · EducationSCOTTDALE PUBLIC LIBRA…ANGELS JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL RESCUE: $7,000 · AnimalsANGELS JOURN…Animal Friends Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsAnimal Frien…WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 · AnimalsWASHINGTON A…HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,000 · AnimalsHUMANE ANIMA…WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PA: $2,000 · Human ServicesPaws With A Cause: $2,000 · Human ServicesWATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA: $2,000 · Crime & LegalWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMOUNT PLEASANT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $2,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$90,000Education$30,000Animals$16,000Philanthropy$4,000Human Services$4,000Crime & Legal$2,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,000

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 budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMonessen Public Library: $7,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetANGELS JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL RESCUE: $7,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELLE VERNON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOLY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSTRAVER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT PLEASANT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds Monessen Public Library ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS JOURNEY HOME ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BELLE VERNON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SCOTTDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROSTRAVER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PA ↗
  • Who funds WATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA ↗
  • Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
  • Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT PLEASANT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗

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.

Puff Trixie Charitabl…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Puff Trixie Charitable Pvt FdnMI30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puff Trixie Charitable Pvt Fdn · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ceasar Puff Charitable Private Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ceasar Puff Charitable Private Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
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    How do I get to Ceasar Puff Charitable Private Fdn?

    Find your warmest path to Ceasar Puff Charitable Private Fdn 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 38 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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