· Private foundation
Church Brew Works Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILD AND FREE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $2,700 |
| SSA ANNUAL FUND | $2,500 |
| AUDOBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA | $800 |
| THE WESTERN PA CONSERVANCY | $700 |
| SAVE OUR WILD SALMON COALITION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| PHIPPS CONSERVATORY | $500 |
| SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| FOX FAMILIES CARE | $450 |
| HAITI FRIENDS | $400 |
| FOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP | $400 |
| GROW PITTSBURGH | $350 |
| ALLEGHENY RIVERTRAIL PARK | $350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
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 (FY21–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- WAWILD AND FREE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +266%
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +170%
- SISURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $650 · revenue -5%
- FCFOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500
- FCFOX CHAPEL AREA BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $400 · revenue +36%
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.
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
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…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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…
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
We conserve and care for local land for the health and well-being of current and future generations.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The mission of wildlands conservancy is to protect and restore critical natural areas and waterways, and educate the community to create a legacy of a healthy, sustainable environment for future generations.
At philadelphia zoo, our mission is to flourish as an urban oasis, where people and animals thrive, transformational memories are made, and our passion for conservation saves wildlife (see schedule o).guided by a three-year strategic plan,…
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
The Allegheny County Conservation District is an urban conservation district that engages and leads through partnerships, innovation, and implementation to conserve, promote, and improve Allegheny Countys natural resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wild and Free Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
26 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. 26 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 WILD AND FREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER HAITI ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR WILD SALMON ↗
- Who funds Fox Families Care ↗
- Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds FOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOX CHAPEL AREA BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE KISKI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PANDAS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TEAM TASSY (DBA WORK) ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH YOUTH LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Fox Chapel Area Land Trust ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
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
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 Church Brew Works 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.
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
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.