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Francesca Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$750
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 22
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$612k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Francesca Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$28k0%
FY202322$29k50%
FY202214$16k100%
FY20211$6kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$44kFood & Nutrition$11kReligion$5kInternational$4kHealth$4kHuman Services$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Francesca Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Pittsburgh$10,50030%
University of Delaware$10,00020%
Presbyterian College$5,50010%
Allegheny College$3,00030%
Little Sisters of the Poor$2,70039%
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$2,50030%
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh$2,00030%
Brother's Brother Foundation$1,75030%
Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh$1,65030%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,50030%
Verland Foundation Inc$1,30030%
Lutheran World Relief Inc$1,00020%
St Josephs Indian School$1,0002n/a
Hope Ignites Pittsburgh$1,00020%
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation$1,00020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Francesca Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Delaware: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian College: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAllegheny College: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor: $2,700 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Institute of Pittsburgh: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrother's Brother Foundation: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVerland Foundation Inc: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran World Relief Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Ignites Pittsburgh: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Massey Charitable TrustPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Massey Charitable Trust · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Francesca Charitable Foundation

How much does Francesca Charitable Foundation give?
Francesca Charitable Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $27,550 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Francesca Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Religion (6%).
Who are Francesca Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: University of Pittsburgh ($11k), University of Delaware ($10k), Presbyterian College ($6k).
Does Francesca Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Francesca Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Francesca Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Massey Charitable Trust, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Francesca Charitable Foundation based?
Francesca Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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