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Core Cares Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$697k
Granted FY2024still arriving
200
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$1.8MHealth$256kYouth Development$209kPublic Safety & Disaster$194kRecreation & Sports$193kEducation$162kFood & Nutrition$108kCrime & Legal$101kOther$0
02FY2024 · 200 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k184 grants · $277k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$200,000
GROWING UP GREENE (FORMERLY CASA)$35,000
FRANK CALANDRA JR FOUNDATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$15,000
GIRLS SCOUTS OF WESTERN PA$15,000
ADVANCED LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENE CTY$15,000
LAUREN'S WISH ADDICTION CENTER$12,550
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$12,455
WEST VIRGINIA STATE PARKS FDN$12,000
GOVERNOR'S ONE SHOT HUNGRY PROGRAM$10,000
MORRIS TOWNSHIP VOL FIRE DEPT$10,000
CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK$10,000
HELPING HOUSE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A KID AGAIN INC: $10k → 15%COLBY'S STARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $3k → 10%EMPTY BOWLS MONONGALIA: $5k → 19%CHRISTIAN HELP: $3k → 19%ADOPTION CONNECTION PA: $500 → 10%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $1k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $1k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $1k → 11%CHRISTIAN HELP: $3k → 19%WYOMING COUNTY TOY FUND: $5k → 25%CHRISTIAN HELP: $1k → 19%WYOMING COUNTY TOY FUND: $3k → 25%WYOMING COUNTY TOY FUND: $3k → 25%WYOMING COUNTY TOY FUND: $3k → 25%WYOMING COUNTY WV TOY FUND: $3k → 25%WYOMING COUNTY TOY FUND: $1k → 25%CASA OF GREENE COUNTY: $35k → 13%CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK: $10k → 13%CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK: $10k → 13%CASA OF GREENE COUNTY: $5k → 13%CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK: $5k → 13%COLBY'S STARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%CASA OF GREENE COUNTY: $5k → 13%CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK: $5k → 13%GREENE CO CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK: $5k → 13%CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK: $5k → 13%VILLAGE OF FPC: $500 → 12%CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK: $3k → 13%COLBY'S STARS FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%COLBY'S STARS FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $10k → 12%LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 12%LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%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

AK
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
TX
FL
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 106 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

106 repeat relationships: 71 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 118 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
243

Total granted

$1.3M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+7%

Still filing today

25%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GU
    Growing Up Greene
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +62%
  • CC
    CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +73%
  • BS
    BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF MORGANTOWN
    one grant, 2022 · $1.2M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • RV
    RICHILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Monongahela Youth Baseball
Recreation & Sports
2
Pittsburg Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire protection for over 100 members

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3
Clearfield Volunteer Fire Department

The protection, preservation of life and property during emergencies as may occur in the Borough of Clearfield and surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

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5
Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire protection for the City of Lewisburg, WV and surrounding areas

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6
Flemington Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide volunteer fire fighting services in the flemington, wv region.

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7
North Penn Volunteer Fire Company

To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.

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8
Morgantown Baseball League

Providing a Youth Baseball League for North Central WV expanding across 3 counties

Recreation & Sports
9
Central Volunteer Fire Department

Operation of a volunteer fire company for the local communities in pike county, pa.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Moorefield Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer fire company providing fire protection and emergency rescue services to hardy county, wv

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Alum Bank Community Fire Company

Provided Fire & Rescue Services to Alum Bank, PA and surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Coalton Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Preston Mat Club Inc. 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

101 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. 101 of the 468 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/101
Grantees still filing
52/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF MORGANTOWN: $1,200,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF MORGANTOWNRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC: $445,430 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC+160 more: $1,130,310 · Other+160 moreGrowing Up Greene: $45,000 · Human ServicesCORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesWYOMING COUNTY TOY FUND INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesColbys Stars Foundation Inc: $14,500 · Human ServicesLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $11,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesA KID AGAIN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN HELP INC: $6,000 · Human Services+3 more: $10,500 · Human ServicesBLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · EducationWVMA EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $11,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $10,000 · EducationHELPING HOUSE: $10,000 · EducationWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationVALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER: $5,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF COAL LADIES AUXILIARY: $14,500 · Community Improvement4MyCity Inc: $12,500 · Community ImprovementCITY OF MULLENS FOUNDATION INC: $9,900 · Community ImprovementSOAR OF GREENE COUNTY INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENE COUN: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPIATT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC: $4,600 · PhilanthropyHorses With Hope Inc: $13,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,594 · HealthThe Magic Yarn Project: $2,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthAUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER INC: $2,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $2,000 · HealthRESURRECTION POWER OF WASHINGTON PA: $2,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 · HealthWYOMING COUNTY FIRE COMPANY INC: $7,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCARMICHAELS & CUMBERLAND TWP VFD: $6,500 · Public Safety & DisasterWEST FINLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWEST ALEXANDER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSTOCKDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,775,740Human Services$166,500Education$73,000Community Improvement$39,400Philanthropy$34,600Health$33,594Public Safety & Disaster$24,000

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC: $445,430 over 3y, 88% of budgetGrowing Up Greene: $45,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC: $42,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENE COUN: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLAYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $17,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY TOY FUND INC: $17,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetThe Advanced Leadership Institute Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetColbys Stars Foundation Inc: $14,500 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF COAL LADIES AUXILIARY: $14,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetHorses With Hope Inc: $13,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budget4MyCity Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWVMA EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $11,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Patterson Park Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCITY OF MULLENS FOUNDATION INC: $9,900 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,594 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY FIRE COMPANY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCARMICHAELS & CUMBERLAND TWP VFD: $6,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWEST FINLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $6,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN HELP INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRIADELPHIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $6,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMOUNTAINEER AREA ROBOTICS: $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetPIATT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmpty Bowls Monongalia: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHumane Society of Greene County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC: $4,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD HELPERS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUND MIND: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMONONGALIA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOAR OF GREENE COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetITMANN FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBridge To Home Animal Rescue: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetENERGY & MINERAL LAW FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Magic Yarn Project: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Growing Up Greene ↗
  • Who funds CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENE COUN ↗
  • Who funds BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLAYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING COUNTY TOY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The Advanced Leadership Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Colbys Stars Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF COAL LADIES AUXILIARY ↗
  • Who funds Horses With Hope Inc ↗
  • Who funds 4MyCity Inc ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WVMA EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Patterson Park Inc ↗

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 FoundationWashington County Com…Nisource Charitable F…Equitrans Midstream F…Firstenergy FoundationCnx FoundationEdward B Dunlap Jr Fo…Hillman Family Founda…Community Foundation …Centimark FoundationSnee-Reinhardt Charit…The Pittsburgh Founda…
Eqt FoundationPA53.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eqt Foundation · Washington County Community Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Equitrans Midstream Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Cnx Foundation · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Community Foundation of Greene Coun · Centimark Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Pittsburgh 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 Core Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Core Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 4MyCity Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
28report 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 Core Cares Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Core Cares 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 468 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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