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Cnx Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
128
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$1.3MHuman Services$1.3MPublic Benefit$1.0MFood & Nutrition$747kRecreation & Sports$424kEducation$366kYouth Development$320kPublic Safety & Disaster$241kOther$0
02FY2024 · 128 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k73 grants · $226k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $735k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$6,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GREENE COUNTY VETERAN'S CLUB$60,000
LEMOYNE CENTER$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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUTREACH ARMS: $65k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%OUTREACH ARMS: $40k → 9%CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK: $50k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN PA: $75k → 12%HEROES SUPPORTING HEROES: $30k → 11%CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK: $10k → 13%COLBY STARS FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%THE LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $50k → 12%JASMINE NYREE HOME: $15k → 11%TRPIL: $5k → 12%COMPUTER REACH: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 54 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
81

Total granted

$4.0M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+17%

Still filing today

30%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WS
    WORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +21%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $89k · revenue +28%
  • RT
    Rush to Crush Cancer
    2× · 2023–2024 · $72k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CO
    COUNTY OF GREENE
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
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.

1
Regional Workforce Collaborative - Swpa

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.

Community Improvement
2
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank

Our mission is to leverage the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes.

Food & Nutrition
3
Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association

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…

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4
Gettysburg Hospital

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.

Health
5
Western Pennsylvania Foundation for the Arts
Arts & Culture
6
Highmark Health Group

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…

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7
Summit Physician Services

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…

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8
Chambersburg Hospital

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.

Health
9
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
10
Trwib Inc

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.

Community Improvement
11
Waynesboro Hospital

Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
12
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blueprints; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 215 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
32/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENN HIGHLANDS MON VALLEY HOSPITAL: $1,000,000 · OtherPENN HIGHLANDS MON VALLEY HOSPITALCOUNTY OF GREENE: $1,000,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF GREENEBUS STOPS HERE FOUNDATION: $325,000 · OtherBUS STOPS HERE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherCCAC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $207,600 · Other+158 more: $2,913,802 · Other+158 moreOutreached Arms: $105,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN PA: $75,000 · Human ServicesCORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesComputer Reach: $50,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $50,000 · Human ServicesHEROES SUPPORTING HEROES: $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $22,000 · Human ServicesBLUEPRINTS: $300,000 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC: $89,242 · Community Improvement+2 more: $11,500 · Community ImprovementFOOD HELPERS: $355,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $10,750 · Food & NutritionRESURRECTION POWER OF WASHINGTON PA: $100,000 · HealthRush to Crush Cancer: $71,619 · HealthPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC: $35,000 · HealthWV GAME CHANGERS INC: $28,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthDomestic Outreach Corporation: $15,000 · HealthROARING RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $10,500 · Health+3 more: $4,250 · HealthWORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT INC: $115,000 · Recreation & SportsPITTSBURGH THREE RIVERS MARATHON INC: $62,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $5,295 · Recreation & SportsPITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHM3 PARTNERS INDEPENDENCE FUND INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND: $14,000 · PhilanthropyBest of the Batch Foundation: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$5,696,402Human Services$462,000Community Improvement$400,742Food & Nutrition$365,750Health$304,869Recreation & Sports$182,795Philanthropy$124,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD HELPERS: $355,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBLUEPRINTS: $300,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT INC: $115,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetOutreached Arms: $105,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetRESURRECTION POWER OF WASHINGTON PA: $100,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR INC: $89,242 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN PA: $75,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRush to Crush Cancer: $71,619 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPITTSBURGH THREE RIVERS MARATHON INC: $62,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREENE COUNTY VETERANS CLUB: $62,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC: $60,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetBELL TOWNSHIP VFD: $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetComputer Reach: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHEROES SUPPORTING HEROES: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWV GAME CHANGERS INC: $28,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD ABUSE REPORTING AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER OF SOUTHWEST VA: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHM3 PARTNERS INDEPENDENCE FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST: $24,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST FINLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $20,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetDomestic Outreach Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetJASMINE NYREE HOME: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND: $14,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDING MY SHEEP INC: $10,750 over 2y, 11% of budgetROARING RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $10,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetTAZEWELL BASEBALL BOOSTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest of the Batch Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRichhill Agricultural Society Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE MOMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN FIELD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL STREAMS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCATALYST CONNECTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRPIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSMASH FASTPITCH: $4,295 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColbys Stars Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 BELL TOWNSHIP VFD ↗
  • Who funds LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Computer Reach ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON CITY MISSION ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Eqt FoundationThe Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Upmc GroupWashington County Com…Richard King Mellon F…Core Cares FoundationThe Grable FoundationCentimark FoundationThe United Way of Sou…Nisource Charitable F…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…
Eqt FoundationPA37.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cnx Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cnx Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Cnx Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cnx Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 215 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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