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Fairman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUBOIS CENTRAL CATHOLIC | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR IUP | $50,000 |
| PUNXSUTAWNEY AREA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOB PERKS FUND | $2,500 |
| DUBOIS AREA UNITED WAY | $1,500 |
| DUBOIS CENTRAL CATHOLIC | $1,000 |
| GRADY'S DECISION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA6× · 2020–2025 · $151k · revenue -14%
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $151k
- PAPUNXSUTAWNEY AREA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $60k
Funded once
- DSDUBOIS SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BFBEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +149%
- FMFREE MEDICAL CLINICone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The mission of pennsylvania institute of technology is student success. continued on schedule o.the college provides a supportive environment to enable committed students to succeed by offering the best collegiate education for career…
Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…
To maximize private gift support for pittsburg state university, exercise proper management of foundation assets, lay the groundwork for future fundraising success in support of the university's teaching, research and service/civic…
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…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The johnstown educational foundation mission is to receive, administer and distribute funds exclusively for the benefit and support of the university of pittsburgh at johnstown.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
To support the research activities of the indiana university of pa and partner instituitions in the pa state system of higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Punxsutawney Area Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grady's Decision. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (IUP) ↗
- Who funds PUNXSUTAWNEY AREA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUBOIS AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds GRADY'S DECISION ↗
- Who funds BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DuBois Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WE CARE FOR KIDS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Fairman Family 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.
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.
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