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Cnx 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k73 grants · $226k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $735k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN HIGHLANDS MON VALLEY HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| BLUE PRINTS | $200,000 |
| CCAC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| BUS STOPS HERE FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| ATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC | $70,000 |
| OUTREACH ARMS | $65,000 |
| WORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT | $65,000 |
| PITTSBURGH THREE RIVERS MARATHON | $62,500 |
| LEMOYNE CENTER | $60,000 |
| GREENE COUNTY VETERAN'S CLUB | $60,000 |
| WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $51,500 |
| BELL TOWNSHIP VFD | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOOD HELPERS | $50,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $462k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 79 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850k 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
- WSWORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +21%
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC2× · 2022–2023 · $89k · revenue +33%
- RTRush to Crush Cancer2× · 2023–2024 · $72k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- COCOUNTY OF GREENEone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $150k
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.
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.
Our mission is to leverage the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes.
The pittsburgh venture capital association was founded in 1982 to catalyze venture investment and entrepreneurialism in western pennsylvania. since then it has become the leading voice of private equity investors in the region.through a…
Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
Summit physician services, and the associated wellspan medical group, operate on the belief that a large, well-organized group practice, based on primary and preventive care, and working collaboratively as part of an integrated health care…
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
To develop a thriving workforce, partner4work drives and delivers strategic investments, provides expertise, and creates opportunities for businesses, job seekers, agencies, and policymakers in allegheny county and the city of pittsburgh.
Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blueprints and the most unlike its peers is Leechburg Area Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 215 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FOOD HELPERS ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Outreached Arms ↗
- Who funds RESURRECTION POWER OF WASHINGTON PA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds Rush to Crush Cancer ↗
- Who funds ATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH THREE RIVERS MARATHON INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY VETERANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Computer Reach ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds BELL TOWNSHIP VFD ↗
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: Eqt Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Upmc Group · Washington County Community Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Core Cares Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Centimark Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable 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 Cnx 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.
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.
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