· Private foundation
Foster Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION - JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $50,000 |
| ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CTR | $26,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $10,000 |
| JEWISH CEMETERY & BURIAL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE JEREMIAH | $7,600 |
| RAVINA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE STANFORD FUND FOR UNDERGRADUATE | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER | $3,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO3× · 2021–2023 · $55k · revenue +43%
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +66%
- RCROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- JAJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGINGone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -34%
- BTBeit T'Shuvahgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +62%
- TFTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +113%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE MARS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CEMETERY & BURIAL ASSOC OF GR PGH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Summit Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds The Northmoor Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARKS FOUNDATION OF HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPEN BOOKS LTD ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Highland Park Community Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Foster Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foster Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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