Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $156k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $550
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% 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 | 56 | $156k | 2% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $135k | 2% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $145k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $77k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $135k | 2% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $135k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $136k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $127k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provident Charter School | $200,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $90,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $83,050 | 9 | 0% |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $56,900 | 9 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The American Humanist Association | $27,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh | $22,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc | $19,050 | 9 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $17,050 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $16,775 | 9 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($441k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char 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: The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Upmc Group · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Compare Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation with peer funders
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About Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation
- How much does Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation give?
- Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $156,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Philanthropy (18%), Health (10%).
- Who are Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Provident Charter School ($200k), Pennsylvania State University ($90k), Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank ($83k).
- Does Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Upmc Group.
- Where is Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation based?
- Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation is based in PA.
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