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Dusty Elias Kirk Family Foundation at a glance

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Dusty Elias Kirk Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$96kHealth$62kEnvironment$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$786k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL$10,000
THE CHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION$10,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$10,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,500
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$1,000
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW: $25k → 8%412 FOOD RESCUE: $1k → 11%ALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $25k → 14%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS INC: $5k → 12%KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW: $10k → 8%THE CHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $5k → 14%THE CHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 11%WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $10k → 11%WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $10k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH: $1k → 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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$135k · 6 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$135k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

83%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • AC
    ALLEGHENY COLLEGE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • CN
    CHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +21%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • JD
    JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -81%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
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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4
University of Pittsburgh

The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…

Education
5
Wilson College

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

Education
6
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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7
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
10
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Pittsburg State University Foundation Inc

To maximize private gift support for pittsburg state university, exercise proper management of foundation assets, lay the groundwork for future fundraising success in support of the university's teaching, research and service/civic…

Education
12
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation

The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW: $35,000 · OtherDICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAWWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOLPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION+2 more: $3,000 · OtherALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationALLEGHENY COLLEGECHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH: $20,000 · EducationCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN IN…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $20,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC: $9,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD O…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS INC: $5,000 · InternationalGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$78,000Education$51,000Health$30,500International$5,000Food & Nutrition$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dusty Elias Kirk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dusty Elias Kirk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    How do I get to Dusty Elias Kirk Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dusty Elias Kirk Family 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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