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.

Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation

Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$156k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$55k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$341kPhilanthropy$223kHealth$119kFood & Nutrition$88kPublic Safety & Disaster$87kEnvironment$63kHuman Services$55kCivil Rights$51kOther$0

02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k50 grants · $36k
$10k–50k5 grants · $65k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$550

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY	$55,000
AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION	$20,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND	$15,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH	$10,000
WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH	$10,000
WQED	$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN	$2,750
BOCA HELPING HANDS	$1,650
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$1,650
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE	$1,650
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PITTSBURGH	$1,250
AMERICARES	$1,200
CANINE SERVICE PALS OF PITTSBURGH	$1,200
CITY OF HOPE	$1,200

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 77 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

-4%

Still filing today

60%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

PC
Provident Charter School
4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +527%
GP
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +91%
WP
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY
9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +116%

Funded once

UJ
UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k
PS
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PAUL M KOSSMAN ENDOWMENT FOR EXCEL
one grant, 2023 · $20k
VO
VICTIMS OF TERROR FUND
one grant, 2018 · $2k

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.

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit

American Academy of Pediatrics Pennsylvania Chapter

The mission of the pa aap is to promote the equitable health and well-being of all pennsylvania children. as experts in pediatric healthcare, we are committed to fostering collaboration among pediatricians, families, and community partners…

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Alliance for Aging Research

The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.

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Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education

Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 84 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/48

Grantees still filing

40/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$656,225Education$232,875Food & Nutrition$88,000Health$78,450Environment$62,000Philanthropy$50,000Arts & Culture$42,750

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

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.

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.

The United Way of Southwestern PennsylvaniaPA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curtis I & Paul Kossman Char Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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