Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Ciervo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $298k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations Ciervo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $208k | 74% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $30k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $236k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $245k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $215k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $203k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $208k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $258k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation Works Inc | $533,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Youthplaces | $127,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Kentucky Avenue School | $92,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Children's Museum of Pittsburgh | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Ellis School | $56,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Fame | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Three Rivers Adoption Council | $49,750 | 5 | 1% |
| The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp | $38,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh | $37,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Tag Community Ventures | $20,000 | 1 | 15% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($232k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ciervo Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Eqt Foundation
How this is measured
About Ciervo Foundation
- How much does Ciervo Foundation give?
- Ciervo Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $298,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ciervo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (30%), Philanthropy (19%), Education (15%).
- Who are Ciervo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Innovation Works Inc ($533k), Youthplaces ($128k), Kentucky Avenue School ($93k).
- Does Ciervo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ciervo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ciervo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Where is Ciervo Foundation based?
- Ciervo Foundation is based in PA.
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