Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Forsythe Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,597
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $874k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Forsythe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 2 | $33k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $39k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $41k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $43k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $45k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $34k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $42k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington & Jefferson College | $82,414 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Butler County Inc | $50,630 | 3 | 2% |
| Butler Area Public Library | $32,962 | 3 | 3% |
| Butler County Association for the Blind | $19,660 | 2 | 2% |
| The Lighthouse Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bradford House Historical Association | $8,942 | 1 | 4% |
| Wreaths Across America | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation
How this is measured
About Forsythe Foundation
- How much does Forsythe Foundation give?
- Forsythe Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $43,597 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Forsythe Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (33%), Philanthropy (19%).
- Who are Forsythe Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Washington & Jefferson College ($82k), United Way of Butler County Inc ($51k), Butler Area Public Library ($33k).
- Does Forsythe Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Forsythe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Forsythe Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Where is Forsythe Foundation based?
- Forsythe Foundation is based in PA.
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