· Private foundation
Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| OPEN DOOR INITIATIVE OF OIL CITY | $30,000 |
| VENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 FRANKLIN YMCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- 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 ABC LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE POINTE ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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