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Engler Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$92k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
37%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$81,666
Organizations funded a year
2 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Engler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCrime & LegalHealthPublic BenefitFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$92k20%
FY202419$116k37%
FY202318$68k28%
FY202218$156k94%
FY20212$162k0%
FY20202$90k50%
FY20192$160k100%
FY20182$53kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$500kPublic Benefit$180kEnvironment$64kRecreation & Sports$21kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$15kFood & Nutrition$14kYouth Development$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
OR
SD
PA
CA
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Engler Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $458,332 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBike Pittsburgh Inc: $180,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetAllegheny Land Trust: $40,063 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKidsvoice: $15,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $14,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budget412 Food Rescue Inc: $13,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHomewood Chidren's Village: $11,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRachel Carson Trails Conservancy Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc: $4,223 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Institute: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNative Hope Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontour Trail Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kingsley Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGroup Against Smog and Pollution Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA24.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · Eqt Foundation · The Benter Foundation · Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation Aka Eugene Dozzi Charitable Foundation · The Forbes Funds · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Engler Family Foundation

How much does Engler Family Foundation give?
Engler Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $91,666 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Engler Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Public Benefit (20%), Environment (7%).
Who are Engler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Carnegie Mellon University ($458k), Bike Pittsburgh Inc ($180k), Allegheny Land Trust ($40k).
Does Engler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Engler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Engler Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Grable Foundation, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
Where is Engler Family Foundation based?
Engler Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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