· Private foundation
Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OIL REGION ALLIANCE OF BUSINESS | $90,000 |
| GOOD HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF | $81,556 |
| Individual grant recipient | $81,503 |
| UNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY | $55,000 |
| OIL CITY CIVIC CENTER INC | $46,800 |
| BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS | $46,300 |
| VENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| OPEN DOOR INITIATIVE OF OIL CITY | $30,000 |
| THE POINTE | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC | $17,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN PA | $15,000 |
| VENANGO TOYMAKERS INC | $6,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION4× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +241%
- MSMUSTARD SEED MISSIONS OF VENANGO COUNTY3× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +26% · 36% of their budget
- GLGRACE LEARNING CENTER4× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +7% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIANone grant, 2020 · $88k
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $83k
- VCVENANGO CHAMBER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $75k · 77% of their budget
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.
The venango area chamber of commerce builds, serves and promotes regional business. the chamber strives to keep programs current and responsive to the demands of venango's current business climate, acting as a bridge that links businesses,…
The museum operates numerous educational and cultural exhibits, workshops and programs dealing with art, science and industry which are available to the general public
Our mission is to discover, collect, preserve, interpret, educate, advocate, present, and promote the county's history and culture.
The clinton county historical society, inc. was organized for the purpose of maintaining a museum for collecting, preserving and interpreting records for artifacts significant to clinton county, pennsylvania.
Provide library services to venango county
Provide community orienated services
The purpose of this society shall be bring together those people interested in history and especially in the history of the vandalia missouri area. understanding the history of our community is basic to our democratic way of life gives us…
The northern columbia community and cultural center is a gathering place whose purpose is to enhance the quality of life for the those who live in, work in and/or visit northern columbia county.
Provides for personal enrichment, cultural programming, education support and life long learning for the citizens of the community and beyond.
To educate the public about the experiences and history of veterans.
The Mission of the Museum shall be to preserve and display the history of the petroleum industry in the Bradford Oil field and the unique culture that developed with it. The museum shall be a repository off oil & gas memorabilia,…
Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mustard Seed Missions of Venango County. 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 31 years old; the field is 33. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 3% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 42 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 BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AND CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF VENANGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION ↗
- Who funds CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED MISSIONS OF VENANGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GRACE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN YMCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OIL CITY CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VENANGO CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLONEL DRAKE CULTURAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds BELLES LETTRES CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ABC LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE POINTE ↗
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: Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust · McElhattan Foundation · Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial · Keating Thomas - Ui · Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw · Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation · Eileen J Luce Charitable Trust · Edith C Justus Tuw · Howes-Nelson Charitable Trust · Nelson Eleanor & Rudolph-Char Tr · Trax Virginia S for Charities - Tr · Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable 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 Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust 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.