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Epic Metals Corporation Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Epic Metals Corporation Charitable 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.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$172kArts & Culture$107kEnvironment$74kHealth$41kFood & Nutrition$32kCommunity Improvement$29kReligion$23kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRADDOCK CARNEGIE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$18,000
COMMUNITOPIA$8,400
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$7,800
FRANKLIN REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,500
PITTSBURGH YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$5,000
HOPE FOR GHANA$2,500
JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC$2,000
HERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$1,000
AUBUDON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA$300
PET FRIENDS INC$200
GOLDEN PAWS OF NAPLES$200
WHITE OAK ANIMAL SAFE HAVEN NO KILL SHELTER$200
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK$200
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AGING SERVICES INC: $200 → 14%AVOW HOSPICE: $400 → 10%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC: $850 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH: $300 → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 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

NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
PA
CA
CO
NE
KY
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$396k · 39 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
68

Total granted

$396k
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+8%

Still filing today

64%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BC
    Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $92k · revenue +686%
  • GB
    GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +130%
  • C
    Communitopia
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • RO
    RIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $62k · revenue +452%
  • H(
    HENRY (BUD) ROSSI ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • ES
    EXCEL SIGNWORKSSPECIAL OLYMPICS
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
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
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
2
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
3
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
4
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
5
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
8
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
9
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
10
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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11
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
12
Allegheny Conference On Community Development

See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Building Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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

69 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. 69 of the 115 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION: $26,100 · OtherPITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATIONCarnegie Mellon University: $25,160 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityCARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $23,190 · OtherCARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF ARCHI…TREE OF LIFE: $20,300 · OtherTREE OF LIFEPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC: $13,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INCHENRY (BUD) ROSSI ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 · OtherEXCEL SIGNWORKSSPECIAL OLYMPICS: $8,500 · OtherPITTSBURGH TROLLEY MUSEUM: $8,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL: $7,500 · OtherFranklin Regional School District: $7,500 · Other+67 more: $65,711 · Other+67 moreBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $91,918 · Arts & CultureBraddock Carnegie Library AssocRIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATION: $62,250 · Arts & CultureRIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATIONPITTSBURGH YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $14,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHES…+3 more: $4,150 · Arts & CultureGREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE: $37,020 · EnvironmentGREEN BUILDING…Communitopia: $28,033 · EnvironmentCommunitopia+8 more: $4,500 · Environment+8 moreCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $18,100 · HealthABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC: $7,800 · HealthTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · HealthHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $3,000 · Health+9 more: $4,400 · HealthGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $26,525 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $1,150 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $700 · Food & NutritionHope for Ghana Corporation: $6,500 · InternationalORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC: $1,250 · InternationalBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · InternationalMIYAMOTO GLOBAL DISASTER RELIEF: $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFairview Volunteer Fire Department: $300 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$214,961Arts & Culture$172,818Environment$69,553Health$39,800Food & Nutrition$28,375International$8,750Public Safety & Disaster$8,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $91,918 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetRIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATION: $62,250 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE: $37,020 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCommunitopia: $28,033 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $26,525 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION: $26,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $25,160 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $18,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $14,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMIYAMOTO GLOBAL DISASTER RELIEF: $8,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC: $7,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC: $6,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHope for Ghana Corporation: $6,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $4,240 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $2,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF KERR COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIETERT CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE PITTSBURGH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOTO ANTIQUITIES: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF GREATER TAMPA BAY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH PITTSBURGH HOCKEY CLUB INC SOUTH PITTSBURGH REBELLION: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROW PITTSBURGH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeen Health Connection Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDFUL MATERIALS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVOW Hospice Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Engineering Foundation: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $300 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.

  • Who funds Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc ↗
  • Who funds RIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Communitopia ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MIYAMOTO GLOBAL DISASTER RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds ABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope for Ghana Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
  • Who funds Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗

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 Founda…Richard King Mellon F…The Grable FoundationThe Heinz EndowmentsHillman Family Founda…Dollar Bank FoundationPeter C Dozzi Family …Allegheny FoundationEqt FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Posner Foundation of …McCune Foundation Pnc…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA42× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · Dollar Bank Foundation · Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation Aka Eugene Dozzi Charitable Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Epic Metals Corporation Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Epic Metals Corporation Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Epic Metals Corporation Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Epic Metals Corporation Charitable 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 115 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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