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Fairbanks-Horix Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$84kArts & Culture$65kEmployment$55kEducation$50kFood & Nutrition$36kReligion$25kHousing & Shelter$8kYouth Development$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$900k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM$10,000
SHEPHERD'S HEART FELLOWSHIP$7,500
NEW CENTURY CAREERS$7,500
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY$6,000
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE$3,000
HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY INC$2,500
LOAVES AND FISHES OF TOMPKINS$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MT LEBANON VILLAGE: $3k → 11%MT LEBANON VILLAGE: $3k → 11%MT LEBANON VILLAGE: $2k → 11%MT LEBANON VILLAGE: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$311k · 14 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$311k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationPublic BenefitFood & NutritionEmploymentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NC
    NEW CENTURY CAREERS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +6%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +247%
  • FF
    FAIRBANKS FAMILY IN AMERICA INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TS
    THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +44%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT OF WESTERN
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Friends of the Pittsburgh Institutions
2
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
3
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc

Loaves & fishes provides nourishing food with respect and dignity to all who seek assistance, while offering robust opportunities for community engagement through volunteerism, partnerships, and nutrition education.

Food & Nutrition
4
Feeding Pennsylvania

Feeding pennsylvania is the partner state association of feeding america food banks. it is our mission to promote and aid our members in securing food and other resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity for their communities and…

Philanthropy
5
Pittsfield Community Food Pantry Inc

To provide for our neighbors in the spirit of generosity, respect, kindness and acceptance so that no one in our community goes to bed hungry.

Food & Nutrition
6
Pennsylvania Veterans Museum

To educate the public about the experiences and history of veterans.

Arts & Culture
7
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
8
Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh

Working in partnership with low-income elderly homeowners, veterans, and individuals with disabilities, their families, volunteers and community residents, we work to preserve and revitalize houses thus providing a community impact.…

Housing & Shelter
9
Friends of the Mt Lebanon Public Library

The Friends create public support and assistance for expanding library programs and encourage gifts, endowments and memorials to the library.

10
Food & Friends Inc

To improve the lives and health of people with hiv/aids, cancer, and other serious illnesses by preparing and delivering (free of charge) specialized meals and groceries, providing nutritional counseling, and reducing social isolation.

Health
11
Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.

12
Community Foodworks

Pioneering strategies for an equitable and resilient community-based food system.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mt Lebanon Village. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHEPHERD'S HEART FELLOWSHIP — $53,000 · OtherSHEPHERD'S HEART FELLOWSHIPPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC — $52,500 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INCCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY — $31,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTYFAIRBANKS FAMILY IN AMERICA INC — $12,330 · OtherFAIRBANKS FAMILY IN AMERICA INCDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE — $9,000 · OtherWINCHESTER UNION RESCUE — $7,500 · OtherThe Fairbanks House — $7,000 · Other+2 more — $5,500 · OtherNEW CENTURY CAREERS — $55,251 · EmploymentNEW CENTURY CAREERSFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC — $38,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF TH…Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc — $11,000 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $7,500 · Food & NutritionHIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY — $13,500 · Public BenefitIT'S ABOUT THE WARRIORS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Public BenefitMt Lebanon Village — $10,031 · Human ServicesTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $4,000 · EducationFAMILY READING PARTNERSHIP — $1,000 · Education
Other$177,830Employment$55,251Philanthropy$38,000Food & Nutrition$18,500Public Benefit$14,500Human Services$10,031Education$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW CENTURY CAREERS — $55,251 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC — $52,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC — $38,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetHIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY — $13,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRBANKS FAMILY IN AMERICA INC — $12,330 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc — $11,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMt Lebanon Village — $10,031 over 4y, 9.9% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIT'S ABOUT THE WARRIORS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY READING PARTNERSHIP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 NEW CENTURY CAREERS
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC
  • Who funds HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY
  • Who funds FAIRBANKS FAMILY IN AMERICA INC
  • Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County Inc
  • Who funds Mt Lebanon Village
  • Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC
  • Who funds THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds IT'S ABOUT THE WARRIORS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY READING PARTNERSHIP

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Fairbanks-Horix Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fairbanks-Horix Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fairbanks-Horix 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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