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Church Brew Works Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$400
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$177k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Church Brew Works Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$16k21%
FY202321$13k24%
FY202216$9k19%
FY202118$9k17%
FY202011$10k9%
FY201916$10k13%
FY201817$7k24%
FY201715$7kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$24kHuman Services$15kEducation$15kEnvironment$6kArts & Culture$6kInternational$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHealth$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Church Brew Works Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWild and Free Foundation: $17,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetThe Neighborhood Academy: $12,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAudubon Society of Western Pa: $4,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPhipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc: $3,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSurgicorps International: $3,050 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGrow Pittsburgh: $2,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti: $2,075 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetZoological Society of Pittsburgh: $1,690 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,375 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSave Our Wild Salmon: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFox Families Care: $900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Pennsylvania Conservancy: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Whitewater: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFox Chapel Golf Club Scholarship Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFox Chapel Area Baseball Softball Association Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRiverlife: $325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kiski School: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPandas International: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeam Tassy (Dba Work): $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Youth Leadership: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFox Chapel Area Land Trust: $125 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLight of Life Ministries Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 Pittsburgh FoundationPA29.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999 · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Eqt Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · Allegheny Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Courtney Babcock Borntraeger 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.

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About Church Brew Works Foundation

How much does Church Brew Works Foundation give?
Church Brew Works Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $16,225 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Church Brew Works Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (30%), Human Services (19%), Education (18%).
Who are Church Brew Works Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wild and Free Foundation ($17k), The Neighborhood Academy ($13k), Audubon Society of Western Pa ($4k).
Does Church Brew Works Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Church Brew Works Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Church Brew Works Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
Where is Church Brew Works Foundation based?
Church Brew Works Foundation is based in PA.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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