Pennsylvania · Private foundation
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
- 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.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $92k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $116k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $68k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $156k | 94% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $162k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $90k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $160k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $53k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | $458,332 | 5 | 0% |
| Bike Pittsburgh Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Allegheny Land Trust | $40,063 | 4 | 0% |
| Kidsvoice | $15,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $14,250 | 2 | 0% |
| 412 Food Rescue Inc | $13,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Homewood Chidren's Village | $11,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $6,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Pa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc | $4,223 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | $458,332 | 5 | 0% |
| Bike Pittsburgh Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Allegheny Land Trust | $40,063 | 4 | 0% |
| Kidsvoice | $15,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $14,250 | 2 | 0% |
| 412 Food Rescue Inc | $13,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Homewood Chidren's Village | $11,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $6,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Pa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc | $4,223 | 4 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $3,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Carnegie Institute | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Animal Friends Inc | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Native Hope Inc | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Montour Trail Council | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Kingsley Association | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Group Against Smog and Pollution Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
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.
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How this is measured
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: 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
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.
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