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.

Church Brew Works Foundation

Church Brew Works Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Church Brew Works Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

0188% 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

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400

Median grant

States reached

$177k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
PHIPPS CONSERVATORY	$500
SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL	$500
Individual grant recipient	$500
SAVE OUR WILD SALMON COALITION	$500
FOX FAMILIES CARE	$450
FOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP	$400
HAITI FRIENDS	$400
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER	$350
CARNEGIE MUSEUM	$350
Individual grant recipient	$350

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$76k · 24 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$76k

$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+30%

Still filing today

71%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsEducationInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

WA
WILD AND FREE FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +266%
TN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +170%
SI
SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL
8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +27%

Funded once

WP
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2023 · $650 · revenue +21%
FC
FOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $500
FC
FOX CHAPEL AREA BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $400 · revenue +156%

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.

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports

Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment

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

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

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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The Forest Park Conservancy

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…

Environment

Allegheny Land Trust

We conserve and care for local land for the health and well-being of current and future generations.

Environment

The Wildlife Society

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.

Animals

Wildlands Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment

Zoological Society of Philadelphia

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,…

Animals

Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

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…

Environment

Allegheny County Conservation District

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.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

19/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$27,425Animals$20,540Education$13,700Environment$10,325International$3,300Food & Nutrition$2,600Arts & Culture$2,375

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

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 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Church Brew Works Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Church Brew Works Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home