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Charity Randall Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$413k
Granted FY2026still arriving
12
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.4MRecreation & Sports$307kEducation$270kEnvironment$165kAnimals$100kPhilanthropy$35kOther$0
02FY2026 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE$130,000
PHIPPS CONSERVATORY$50,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$50,000
PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATER$40,000
PITTSBURGH OPERA$40,000
PERC$20,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$20,000
NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATION FOUNDATION$17,500
SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,000
INTERNATIONAL POETRY FORUM$10,000
THEATREZONE$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PERC: $20k → 10%MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN GUILD: $10k → 11%AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE: $130k → 14%THEATREZONE: $10k → 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER: $250k → 11%THEATREZONE: $10k → 10%PITTSBURGH ZOO AND PPG AQUARIUM: $100k → 11%THEATREZONE: $10k → 10%THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $100k → 11%THEATREZONE: $10k → 10%THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $75k → 11%NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $50k → 11%NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $40k → 11%NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $15k → 11%NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $15k → 10%SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 11%PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATER: $40k → 11%ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%PITTSBURGH NATIONAL AVIARY: $300k → 11%THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM: $150k → 11%RIVERLIFE: $150k → 11%PITTSBURGH NATIONAL AVIARY: $150k → 11%THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM: $100k → 11%PITTSBURGH NATIONAL AVIARY: $50k → 11%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%HEINZ HISTORY CENTER: $200k → 11%POINT PARK UNIVERSTIY PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE: $200k → 11%POINT PARK UNIVERSTIY PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE: $200k → 11%CLO CABARET SERIES: $100k → 11%PITTSBURGH CIVIC LIGHT OPERA GUILD: $76k → 11%CLO CABARET SERIES: $50k → 11%HEINZ HISTORY CENTER: $50k → 11%PITTSBURGH OPERA: $40k → 11%PITTSBURGH OPERA: $25k → 11%PITTSBURGH OPERA: $15k → 11%PITTSBURGH OPERA: $15k → 11%CLO GUILD SCHOLARSHIP: $10k → 11%CLO GUILD SCHOLARSHIP: $5k → 11%INTERNATIONAL POETRY FORUM: $10k → 11%PHIPPS CONSERVATORY: $50k → 11%CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $30k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 13 repeat orgs$884k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$2.4M
$614k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+20%

Still filing today

54%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TN
    THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2026 · $265k · revenue +170%
  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    2× · 2017–2022 · $250k · revenue +78%
  • PO
    PITTSBURGH OPERA INC
    4× · 2021–2026 · $95k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • PG
    PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -5%
  • R
    RIVERLIFE
    one grant, 2025 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +59%
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
Point Park University

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…

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2
Carnegie Institute

To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.

Arts & Culture
3
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
4
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
5
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Inc

The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…

Arts & Culture
9
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
10
Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.

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11
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
12
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 30 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPOINT PARK UNIVERSTIY PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE: $400,000 · OtherPOINT PARK UNIVERSTIY PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSETHE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM: $250,000 · OtherTHE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPITTSBURGH CIVIC LIGHT OPERA GUILD: $77,258 · Other+5 more: $78,262 · Other+5 morePITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER …HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WE…PITTSBURGH OPERA INC: $95,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH OPERA INCTHEATREZONEINC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATREZONEINCPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH BALLET THEATR…Sweetwater Art Center: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $265,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD…AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $130,000 · EducationAMERICAN CORNERS…DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $50,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERS…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $15,100 · EducationALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $306,000 · Community ImprovementALLEGHENY …RIVERLIFE: $150,000 · EnvironmentPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $100,000 · AnimalsNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 · PhilanthropyPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,455,520Arts & Culture$710,000Education$480,100Community Improvement$306,000Environment$215,000Animals$100,000Philanthropy$52,500Recreation & Sports$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $306,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $265,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRIVERLIFE: $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH OPERA INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATREZONEINC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSweetwater Art Center: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 Heinz EndowmentsHillman Family Founda…The Fine FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Eqt FoundationClapp G H Decd Char a…The Burke Family Foun…The Burke FoundationThe Buhl FoundationThe Grable FoundationThe Pittsburgh Founda…The Simpson Family Fo…
The Heinz EndowmentsPA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · The Fine Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Charity Randall Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Charity Randall 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 30 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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