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Eckert Seamans Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN PA | $6,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER | $2,500 |
| DAUPHIN COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST | $1,550 |
| MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORS FOR NEIGHBORS | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT | $1,000 |
| PENN STATE HEALTH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $1,000 |
| MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH | $1,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT | $1,000 |
| SHARE THE FUN PROJECT | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- ACALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $67k · revenue +77%
- TFTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +104%
- PPPITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION4× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $13k
- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -39%
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.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
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…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
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…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is The Elizabeth Ann Healy Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
171 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. 171 of the 261 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Achieve Now ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH LEGAL DIVERSITY & INCLUSION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Children First PA ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIANS FOR MODERN COURTS ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA VIP INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS of THE WHITE PLAINS YOUTH BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
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 · Hillman Family Foundations · Eqt Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Fine Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Upmc Group · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na
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 Eckert Seamans Charitable Foundation 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.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Joslin Clinic Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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