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Forsythe Foundation at a glance

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Forsythe Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$139kHealth$129kPhilanthropy$72kFood & Nutrition$20kHuman Services$15kArts & Culture$9kPublic Benefit$2k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$874k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUTLER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$20,597
EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY$12,500
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE$10,500
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 (FY18–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$306k · 7 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$306k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+14%

Still filing today

43%
60%

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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • WJ
    WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $82k · revenue -1%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OF
    3× · 2020–2022 · $56k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BUTLER COUNTY INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $51k

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF BUTLER
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • TL
    THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +45%
  • CH
    Community Health Center
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
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
Butler County United Way

Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…

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2
United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy
3
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co

In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…

Philanthropy
5
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
6
United Way of Bradford County

To empower our neighbors to foster a healthy community through education, collaboration, advocacy and mobilization of resources

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7
United Way of Wilkes County Inc

United way of wilkes county is dedicated to improving the lives of our citizens by underwriting identified programs that enhance their well-being through our 21 partner agencies. the united way of wilkes county annually impacts over 32,000…

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Butte and Anaconda

A community focused organization of caring volunteers who efficiently raise and allocate funds for qualified providers through identification and communication of local needs.

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9
Cedar Valley United Way

Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
11
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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12
Bucks County Bar Association

The association is a professional organization whose purpose is to improve the quality of the legal profession.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania; the most unlike its peers is Butler Area Public Library. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OF: $56,225 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OFUNITED WAY OF BUTLER COUNTY INC: $50,630 · OtherUNITED WAY OF BUTLER COUNTY INCBUTLER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $40,597 · OtherBUTLER MEMORIAL HOSPITALBUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32,962 · OtherBUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARYEVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $23,924 · OtherEVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARYCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF BUTLER: $19,686 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF BUTLERCommunity Health Center: $13,014 · OtherBRADFORD HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $8,942 · OtherWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $82,414 · EducationWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON C…THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $11,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $10,500 · PhilanthropyButler County Association for the Blind: $19,660 · HealthTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesWreaths Across America: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$245,980Education$82,414Philanthropy$21,500Health$19,660Human Services$15,000Public Benefit$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $82,414 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUTLER COUNTY INC: $50,630 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32,962 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetButler County Association for the Blind: $19,660 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADFORD HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $8,942 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWreaths Across America: $2,000 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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation

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 Forsythe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forsythe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 14 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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