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Dsf Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3.3M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.9MHealth$4.5MAnimals$4.1MHousing & Shelter$2.4MHuman Services$1.6MEnvironment$613kArts & Culture$475kReligion$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.5M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$118M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE$3,250,000
EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$1,250,000
PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDENS$204,193
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$150,000
VERLAND$145,500
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH$120,000
LEADERSHIP PITTSBURGH INC$107,000
VETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD$100,000
THE PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$100,000
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION$100,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$100,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$100,000
MAINSTAY LIFE SERVICES$100,000
PITTSBURGH HIRES VETERANS$70,000
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF$65,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRANSITIONAL PATHS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING: $75k → 12%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $20k → 14%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $250k → 26%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100k → 26%WESTMORELAND COUNTY BLIND ASSOCIATION: $40k → 10%WESTMORELAND COUNTY BLIND ASSOCIATION: $40k → 10%UNION AID SOCIETY: $18k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $258k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $258k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $100k → 11%THE EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PA: $75k → 11%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PA: $75k → 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION: $250k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%THE BLESSING BOARD: $50k → 11%PA CONNECTING COMMUNITIES: $50k → 11%PA CONNECTING COMMUNITIES: $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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
KY
WV
VA
NC
SC
LA
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 38 repeat orgs$8.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
30

Total granted

$14M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+12%

Still filing today

82%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EC
    EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +5%
  • FH
    FAMILY HOUSE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +28%
  • SS
    SHADY SIDE ACADEMY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $700k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - BRAIN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $1.4M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - COVID-19 PILOT GRANT PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $350k
  • WF
    WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -31%
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
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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3
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
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
6
Highlands Hospital

Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…

Health
7
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…

Education
8
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
9
Geneva College

Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
12
Pocono Health System

We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transitional Paths to Independent Living; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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

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 80 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
45/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $3,250,000 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COLLEGESHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $700,000 · EducationSHADY SIDE ACADEMYSouthern Methodist University: $475,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist Universit…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYSETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $260,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $200,000 · Education+6 more: $367,500 · Education+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - BRAIN INSTITUTE: $1,350,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - BRAIN I…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - VA MRI CALIBRATION PROJECT: $800,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - VA MRI …UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - COVID-19 PILOT GRANT PROGRAM: $350,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP PITTSBURGH - CLCV: $310,950 · OtherVERLAND: $225,500 · OtherTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $300,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $300,000 · Other+31 more: $2,997,746 · Other+31 moreEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $3,750,000 · AnimalsEAST COAST ZOOLOGICA…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $250,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY O…+1 more: $25,000 · AnimalsFAMILY HOUSE INC: $2,000,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE …PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $125,200 · HealthPrimary Care Health Services Inc: $100,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $90,000 · Health+6 more: $360,000 · Health+6 morePresbyterian SeniorCare: $616,034 · Human ServicesPresbyter…CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN…WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesWOODLANDS…LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PA: $150,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE SI…PA CONNECTING COMMUNITIES: $100,000 · Human ServicesPA CONNEC…WESTMORELAND COUNTY BLIND ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · Human ServicesTRANSITIONAL PATHS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING: $75,000 · Human Services+5 more: $138,000 · Human Services+5 morePHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $612,581 · EnvironmentVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterMAINSTAY LIFE SERVICES: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterHosanna Industries Inc: $120,000 · Housing & ShelterCamp Haven Inc: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$5,552,500Other$6,634,196Animals$4,025,000Health$2,675,200Human Services$1,759,034Environment$612,581Housing & Shelter$505,000

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 budgetEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $3,750,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $3,250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $700,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPresbyterian SeniorCare: $616,034 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $612,581 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $475,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $260,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVERLAND: $225,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $200,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPITTSBURGH HIRES VETERANS: $190,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetLIGONIER CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $165,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetMAINSTAY LIFE SERVICES: $160,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOUTDOOR ODYSSEY AT ROARING RUN INC: $150,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $125,200 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHosanna Industries Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP PITTSBURGH: $107,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrimary Care Health Services Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY BLIND ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTRANSITIONAL PATHS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetONE DAY TO REMEMBER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE ARC OF BUTLER COUNTY: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpina Bifida Assoc of Western PA: $60,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetApraxia Kids: $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING AND SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BLESSING BOARD: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetDEPAUL SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $37,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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 Pittsburgh Founda…The United Way of Sou…Hillman Family Founda…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…Richard King Mellon F…The Jack Buncher Foun…Massey Charitable Tru…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…Howard & Nell E Mille…Clapp G H Decd Char a…Fisa FoundationEqt Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA59.9× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Hillman Family Foundations · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · Fisa Foundation · Eqt 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 Dsf Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dsf Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
18report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Dsf Charitable Foundation Inc 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 80 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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