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Elizabeth Louise Glasgow Foundation at a glance

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Elizabeth Louise Glasgow 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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5kEducation$4kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$4kReligion$3kHousing & Shelter$3kHealth$1kInternational$700Other$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES$1,000
SALVATION ARMY OF WESTERN PA$750
GREATER MONESSEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$500
NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$500
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION$150
SAVE THE CHILDREN$100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%GREATER MONESSEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 10%EASTER SEALS PITTSBURGH AREA: $100 → 11%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $500 → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $100 → 17%CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $150 → 18%THE NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50 → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $100 → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1k → 13%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 → 22%ALPINE LAKE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $100 → 14%GREATER MONESSEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $125 → 10%BIRMINGHAM FREE CLINIC: $500 → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $250 → 17%NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1k → 13%ALPINE LAKE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%905 FM WESA: $420 → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $250 → 17%LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS FOUNDATION: $350 → 14%TERRA ALTA FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 14%905 FM WESA: $300 → 11%THE BRADY CENTER: $360 → 14%TERRA ALTA FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 14%GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS FOUNDATION: $175 → 14%GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%THE BRADY CENTER: $180 → 14%SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%SALVATION ARMY PITTSBURGH AREA: $500 → 11%SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $680 → 11%SALVATION ARMY PITTSBURGH AREA: $500 → 11%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $150 → 11%SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $500 → 11%PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR ARTS AND MEDIA: $2k → 11%UPMC CANCER CENTER: $400 → 11%THE SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 11%SALVATION ARMY OF WESTERN PA: $750 → 11%ARTSMITHS OF PITTSBURGH: $600 → 11%THE SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 11%ARTSMITHS OF PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%PROJECT BUNDLE UP: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
WV
DC
GA
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 13 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$20k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+17%

Still filing today

23%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentHealthEducationReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SH
    SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +105%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +13%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $600 · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • PC
    PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR ARTS AND MEDIA
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +1%
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
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

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…

Health
8
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
9
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
10
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Alpine Lake 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCPITTSBURGH CENTER FOR ARTS AND MEDIA: $2,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH CENTER FOR ARTS AND MEDIATHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYARTSMITHS OF PITTSBURGH: $1,100 · OtherARTSMITHS OF PITTSBURGHTERRA ALTA FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 · OtherTERRA ALTA FOOD PANTRYSALVATION ARMY PITTSBURGH AREA: $1,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY PITTSBURGH AREASALVATION ARMY OF WESTERN PA: $750 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF WESTERN PA905 FM WESA: $720 · OtherGREATER MONESSEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $625 · OtherTHE BRADY CENTER: $540 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS FOUNDATION: $525 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 · OtherPROJECT BUNDLE UP: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · Other+3 more: $550 · OtherALPINE LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationALPINE LAKE FOUND…SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $3,180 · ReligionSOUTH HILLS I…GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTS…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $600 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $100 · InternationalNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $500 · EnvironmentWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $150 · EnvironmentPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · HealthCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $150 · Arts & Culture
Other$13,810Education$4,000Religion$3,180Food & Nutrition$3,000International$700Environment$650Health$600Arts & Culture$150

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 budgetSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $3,180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50 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 Elizabeth Louise Glasgow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Louise Glasgow 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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
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 Elizabeth Louise Glasgow Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Elizabeth Louise Glasgow 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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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