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· Private foundation

Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$260kHuman Services$139kFood & Nutrition$78kEducation$70kHealth$57kRecreation & Sports$42kCommunity Improvement$31kYouth Development$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBARARY$20,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER$10,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURG$7,500
HOSSANNA HOUSE INC$7,500
NATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM$7,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF$6,213
Beverlys Birthdays$5,000
COMPUTER REACH$5,000
READING READY PITTSBURGH$5,000
412 FOOD RESCUE$5,000
ANGLES PLACE INC$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$5,000
THE PITTSBURGH PROJECT$5,000
FAMILY HOUSE INC$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Beverlys Birthdays: $5k → 10%CASA SAN JOSE: $3k → 11%Beverlys Birthdays: $5k → 10%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $3k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $3k → 11%COMPUTER REACH: $8k → 11%COMPUTER REACH: $6k → 11%BRADLEY CENTER: $4k → 11%THE BRADLEY CENTER: $3k → 11%THE BRADLEY CENTER: $3k → 11%THE BRADLEY CENTER: $3k → 11%OUTREACH TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2k → 11%COMPUTER REACH: $5k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$680k · 31 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
17

Total granted

$680k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

90%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    7× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +83%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +73%
  • GF
    GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UI
    URBAN IMPACT
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • FO
    FOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LIFE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services
2
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
3
Community Library of Allegheny Valley

The Library is a center for informational resources and services, promoting literacy and lifelong learning. The Library has achieved the status of Family Place Library, a national initiative to encourage the beginning stages of literacy in…

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4
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh

Catapult engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer to peer support, wealth building, trauma informed financial counseling & policy advocacy to ensure that communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice & lead…

Community Improvement
5
Prevention Point Pittsburgh

To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
6
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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7
The Parent-Infant Center

To support parenting by enabling young children to grow & learn in a safe, stimulating, loving environment. pic works to provide and increase access to high-quality early childhood education and school-age programs that give children…

Human Services
8
Pittsburgh Community Services Inc

Provide programs to help individuals and/or families achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
9
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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10
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
11
Girls Inc of Greater Pittsburgh

Girls inc of greater pittsburgh empowers girls to imagine a broader future through a curriculum grounded on female role models delivered by college women mentors, who are themselves mentored by professional women.

Human Services
12
Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh

Cafe momentum pittsburgh transforms young lives by equipping the community's most at-risk youth with life skills, education and employment opportunities to help them achieve their full potential.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hosanna House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reading Ready Pittsburgh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr21%18%20–35yr16%39%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr21%20%20–35yr16%52%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
8%
764/9,865

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $42,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INCMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER — $32,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATERCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF — $26,213 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OFAngels Place Inc — $20,000 · OtherAngels Place IncANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC — $11,000 · OtherURBAN IMPACT — $10,000 · OtherThe Pittsburgh Project — $15,000 · OtherThe Pittsburgh ProjectHOSANNA HOUSE INC — $17,500 · OtherHOSANNA HOUSE INCCASA of Allegheny County — $13,500 · OtherCASA of Allegheny County+13 more — $54,816 · Other+13 moreANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY — $117,378 · EducationANDREW CARNEGIE FREE L…THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $15,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADE…EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $7,500 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — $7,500 · EducationNATIONAL CIVIL WAR MUSEUM — $58,909 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CIVIL WAR M…GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureGETTYSBURG FOUNDATIO…CARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $16,330 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTETHE CENTER FOR THEATER ARTS — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR THEAT…ALUMNI THEATER COMPANY — $12,500 · Arts & CultureALUMNI THEATER COMPA…+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $52,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PIT…412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD RE…GROW PITTSBURGH — $6,000 · Food & NutritionGROW PITTSB…Computer Reach — $18,829 · Human ServicesComputer R…AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesAMACHI PIT…THE BRADLEY CENTER INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRADLE…BEVERLY'S PGH — $10,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S …FAMILY GUIDANCE INC — $5,693 · Human ServicesFAMILY GUI…CASA SAN JOSE — $3,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $2,200 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH YOUTH LEADERSHIP — $20,879 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTING CHAMPIONS — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentReading Ready Pittsburgh — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY HOUSE INC — $22,500 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global — $9,380 · HealthLending Hearts — $3,000 · HealthHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $1,250 · Health
Other$242,029Education$147,378Arts & Culture$135,239Food & Nutrition$78,000Human Services$67,222Youth Development$48,379Health$36,130

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetAMACHI PITTSBURGH INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALUMNI THEATER COMPANY — $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BRADLEY CENTER INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGROW PITTSBURGH — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetASBURY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Howard & Nell E Mille…Hillman Family Founda…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The United Way of Sou…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…Allegheny FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Upmc GroupJames Frances McCandl…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Earl Knudsen Ua Char Fdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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