· Private foundation
Earth Volunteer Fund
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT | $1,000 |
| WESTMORELAND CLEANWAYS AND RECYCLING | $756 |
| OAKLAND PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $500 |
| ALLEGHENY COUNTY IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA | $500 |
| BALDWIN MANOR ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ALALLEGHENY LAND TRUST2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +66%
- ACALLEGHENY COUNTY IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA3× · 2020–2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2022–2023 · $2k
Funded once
- TRTHE ROTARY DISTRICT 7300 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -5%
- PCPA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +125%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Preserving open space by acquisition, easement or deed restriction to protect wildlife habitat, natural and cultural resources, scenic views and quality of life; providing stewardship of watersheds in southwestern pennsylvania through…
The Allegheny County Conservation District is an urban conservation district that engages and leads through partnerships, innovation, and implementation to conserve, promote, and improve Allegheny Countys natural resources.
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
Founded in 1995 to coordinate the completion of the great allegheny passage, a 150-mile non-motorized path connecting pittsburgh and cumberland, maryland, the great allegheny passage conservancy promotes the great allegheny passage and…
To serve as a steward for the natural and cultural communities in the upper Penns Creek Watershed. We seek to preserve and Honor the agricultural roots of Penns Valley by protecting and conserving its waters, farmland, forests and rural…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
Pennsylvania organization for watersheds and rivers (powr) provides the tools, training, education and resources that empower community watershed organization leaders and volunteers to protect and restore rivers and streams, advocate for…
Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.
Protect and restore area watersheds
The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and…
The Beaver Creek Wetlands Association preserves and restores our endangered wetland habitat through conservation, stewardship, education and providing public access.
The allegheny county parks foundation strengthens the health and vibrancy of our community by improving, conserving and restoring the nine allegheny county parks. working in partnership with (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oakland Planning and Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY DISTRICT 7300 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY GOATSCAPE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds ETNA COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Jacobs Creek Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHALFANT RUN-THOMPSON RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Earth Volunteer Fund 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.
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.
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