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Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$140k9%
FY202419$116k11%
FY202327$131k33%
FY202223$138k43%
FY202115$67k40%
FY20208$41k0%
FY201913$50k54%
FY201811$36k45%
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$260kHuman Services$139kFood & Nutrition$78kEducation$70kHealth$57kRecreation & Sports$42kCommunity Improvement$31kYouth Development$27kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Andrew Carnegie Free Library$117,37892%
National Civil War Museum$58,90981%
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$52,00070%
Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc$42,00080%
Gettysburg Foundation$30,00030%
Family House Inc$22,50060%
Pittsburgh Youth Leadership$20,87992%
Angels Place Inc$20,00070%
412 Food Rescue Inc$20,00040%
Computer Reach$18,82931%
Hosanna House Inc$17,50030%
Carnegie Institute$16,33030%
Connecting Champions$15,00022%
The Center for Theater Arts$15,00031%
The Pittsburgh Project$15,00030%
The Neighborhood Academy$15,00040%
CASA of Allegheny County$13,50031%
The Bradley Center Inc$12,50040%
Alumni Theater Company$12,50022%
Amachi Pittsburgh Inc$12,50020%
Reading Ready Pittsburgh$12,50032%
Anchorpoint Counseling Ministry Inc$11,00040%
Beverly's Pgh$10,00020%
Ronald McDonald House Global$9,38030%
Reading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh$7,50010%
Extra Mile Education Foundation$7,50040%
Grow Pittsburgh$6,00020%
Family Guidance Inc$5,6932n/a
Asbury Foundation$5,00021%
Hopebound Ministries Inc$5,00011%
Community Life Enrichment Foundation$5,00015%
Pa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc$5,00011%
Casa San Jose$3,00011%
Providence Connections Inc$3,0001n/a
Lending Hearts$3,0001n/a
Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania Inc$2,50010%
Family Links Inc$2,5001n/a
Light of Life Ministries Inc$2,50010%
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild$2,50010%
Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc$2,20010%
Heritage Community Initiatives$1,25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAndrew Carnegie Free Library: $117,378 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetNational Civil War Museum: $58,909 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $52,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Pennsylvania Inc: $42,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGettysburg Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFamily House Inc: $22,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPittsburgh Youth Leadership: $20,879 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetAngels Place Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budget412 Food Rescue Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetComputer Reach: $18,829 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHosanna House Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCarnegie Institute: $16,330 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConnecting Champions: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Center for Theater Arts: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Pittsburgh Project: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Neighborhood Academy: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCASA of Allegheny County: $13,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Bradley Center Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlumni Theater Company: $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAmachi Pittsburgh Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetReading Ready Pittsburgh: $12,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAnchorpoint Counseling Ministry Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBeverly's Pgh: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $9,380 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetReading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetExtra Mile Education Foundation: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGrow Pittsburgh: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAsbury Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHopebound Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Life Enrichment Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCasa San Jose: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJunior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLight of Life Ministries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManchester Craftsmen's Guild: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutreach Teen and Family Services Inc: $2,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHeritage Community Initiatives: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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 FoundationPA51.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Upmc Group · James Frances McCandless Trust

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.

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About Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn

How much does Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn give?
Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn reported 22 grants totaling $139,713 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Human Services (18%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Andrew Carnegie Free Library ($117k), National Civil War Museum ($59k), Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank ($52k).
Does Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat, Hillman Family Foundations.
Where is Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn based?
Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn is based in PA.

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 50 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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