· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
Our community foundation is a public, non-profit charitable organization designed to attract and invest permanent endowment resources, with the purpose of enhancing the quality of life for the residents of western pennsylvania and eastern ohio, in accordance with the charitable intentions of its donors who wish to leave a legacy.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN OHIO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 358 grants below total $11,298,302 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,265,816 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,967,514 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k96 grants · $694k
- $10k–50k203 grants · $4.4M
- $50k–250k55 grants · $4.7M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHENANGO VALLEY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM INC | $609,507 |
| BUHL PARK CORPORATION | $387,933 |
| THIEL COLLEGE | $266,115 |
| UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $263,034 |
| DARRELLE REVIS FOUNDATION INC | $247,544 |
| BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER | $225,940 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GREENVILLE | $191,547 |
| DSL EXCAVATING LLC | $170,915 |
| ASSURED SETTLEMENT SOLUTIONS LLC | $168,076 |
| COMMUNITY RECREATION OF NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY | $133,460 |
| HOPE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC | $122,992 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $122,441 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA | $120,500 |
| PITTSBURGH HISTORY AND LANDMARKS FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $119,388 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
211 repeat relationships — 164 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 161 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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
- TCTHIEL COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +79%
- BPBUHL PARK CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +153%
- DRDARRELLE REVIS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $692k · revenue +99% · 54% of their budget
Funded once
- NTNESHANNOCK TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $107k
- RRIVERLIFEone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -39%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $85k · revenue -76%
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.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
Vibrant pittsburgh's mission is to accelerate the business community toward equitable, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, creating a future-forward region.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
A network of neighbors, inspired by gospel values, growing in holiness and building a more just world through personal relationships with and service to people in need.
Civil justice for those in need, their homes secured, families protected, and finances fortified.
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
Because we believe in the dignity of all people, the st. vincent de paul society of marin offers compassionate, individualized assistance to help our neediest neighbors obtain nutritious food, affordable housing, meaningful employment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St Vincent De Paul Council and the most unlike its peers is Ryan Blaney Family 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
389 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. 389 of the 593 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 THIEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RECREATION OF NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BUHL PARK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds DARRELLE REVIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL HOMES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds PENN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Corporation for Penn State ↗
- Who funds PRINCE OF PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LINDENPOINTE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS FDTN ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment G ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds GUSTAVUS SENIOR CARE ↗
- Who funds SENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Buhl Regional Health Foundation · National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Hoyt Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Youngstown Fdn General · Upmc Group · James Frances McCandless Trust · Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc
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 Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio 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.
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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