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Charles F Peters Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$189k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$365kHuman Services$124kEducation$97kArts & Culture$94kRecreation & Sports$76kFood & Nutrition$58kYouth Development$29kHousing & Shelter$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH$10,000
NEW BEGINNINGS SERVICES$5,000
SAMPSON'S MILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$5,000
MARY MOTHER OF GOD PARISH$5,000
SAINTS JOACHIM AND ANNE PARISH$5,000
CANCER BRIDGES$5,000
WILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC$5,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
EAST SUBURBAN SEVENTH-DAY$5,000
SAVE SPORTS ARTS & VIDEO$5,000
MCKEESPORT K9 UNIT$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF$5,000
MCKEESPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$5,000
MCKEESPORT REGIONAL HISTORY & HERITAGE$5,000
BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEVERLYS BIRTHDAYS: $5k → 10%BEVERLYS BIRTHDAYS: $5k → 10%CENTER FOR VICTIMS: $5k → 11%CENTER FOR VICTIMS: $5k → 11%CENTER FOR VICTIMS: $4k → 11%CENTER FOR VICTIMS: $5k → 11%WILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 11%WILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 11%WILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 11%WILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 11%WILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 11%WILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
MD
DC
MS

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$845k · 59 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
31

Total granted

$845k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
-1%

Still filing today

29%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • WO
    WHITE OAK ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +48%
  • MM
    Mckeesport Meals on Wheels Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +101%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • WC
    WAYMAN CHAPEL AME CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • BP
    BEULAH PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Laurel Valley Senior Citizens Center

Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.

2
Regional Workforce Collaborative - Swpa

To provide policy guidance, technical assistance, and program oversight for the city of pittsburgh and allegheny county, and to assist in the economic development of southwestern pa region.

Community Improvement
3
Wayne Cares Inc

The mission of wayne cares is to provide food and other material relief to persons in need, primarily in radnor township.

Food & Nutrition
4
Renthelppgh

The mission is to build a just and stable housing ecosystem for allegheny county tenants by ensuring residents can easily access high quality eviction prevention and supportive services, rental assistance programs and resource navigation…

Housing & Shelter
5
Meals On Wheels of Northeastern Pa Inc

Provides nourishing, well-balanced meals to homebound, elderly, and/or disabled persons throughout lackawanna county to improve the health and quality of life of the local community.

6
East End Cooperative Ministry

Eecm changes the lives of people facing the impacts of poverty. opportunity, transformation, hope.

Human Services
7
Central Outreach Resource and Refer

Providing drug and alcohol counseling and referral for treatment and education clients about hiv/aids and sexually transmitted diseases in allegheny county

Human Services
8
Clearfield County Area Agency On Aging Inc

Program Services to Aging Population in Clearfield County

Human Services
9
Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The pittsburgh metropolitan area hispanic chamber of commerce is the principal regional advocate for the hispanic business community's civic and economic interests. it is our mission to develop, promote, and advocate on behalf of hispanic…

Community Improvement
10
Garden Court Community Association Inc

The Garden Court Community Association (GCCA) is an organization of individuals and families living and working in the Garden Court neighborhood in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since the mid 1950's, GCCA has worked to foster, promote,…

11
Belmont Alliance Civic Association

Community development resources

Youth Development
12
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Victims and the most unlike its peers is Anna Middleton Waite Learning Center. 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 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%5%<5yr12%7%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr21%12%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%5%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr21%10%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/45
the rest of the field
8%
763/9,861

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 106 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNT CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH — $33,500 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $30,000 · OtherSAVE SPORTS ARTS & VIDEO — $30,000 · Other+90 more — $720,000 · Other+90 moreMckeesport Meals on Wheels Inc — $26,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $25,000 · Food & NutritionMCKEESPORT AGAPE CENTER — $5,000 · Food & NutritionWILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $22,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR VICTIMS — $19,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S PGH — $10,000 · Human ServicesAnna Middleton Waite Learning Center — $20,000 · EducationLITERACY PITTSBURGH — $10,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — $2,500 · EducationWHITE OAK ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — $26,000 · Recreation & SportsJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $20,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $5,000 · InternationalLAROSA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$813,500Food & Nutrition$56,000Human Services$51,000Education$32,500Recreation & Sports$26,000International$25,000Youth Development$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWHITE OAK ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — $26,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetMckeesport Meals on Wheels Inc — $26,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $22,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetAnna Middleton Waite Learning Center — $20,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetTHE INTERSECTION — $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLAROSA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR VICTIMS — $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMCKEESPORT LITTLE THEATER — $18,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetBEVERLY'S PGH — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC — $8,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE 9TH STREET CLINIC — $8,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetINVISION HUMAN SERVICES — $7,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST STEP RECOVERY HOMES INC — $6,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGARDEN CLUB OF MCKEESPORT — $6,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAMIE'S DREAM TEAM — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMCKEESPORT AGAPE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLEGHENY DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHEUER HOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 WHITE OAK ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Mckeesport Meals on Wheels Inc
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
  • Who funds WILMERDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds Anna Middleton Waite Learning Center
  • Who funds THE INTERSECTION
  • Who funds LAROSA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR VICTIMS
  • Who funds MCKEESPORT LITTLE THEATER
  • Who funds BEVERLY'S PGH
  • Who funds LITERACY PITTSBURGH

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.

E R Crawford Est Trust Fund a Xxx-Xx-XxxxPA51.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: E R Crawford Est Trust Fund a Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Jefferson Regional Foundation · McKeesport Hospital Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Upmc Group · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · American Eagle Outfitters Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Robert & Mary Weisbrod Foundation

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 Charles F Peters Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Charles F Peters Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Charles F Peters 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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