· Public charity
GBU Foundation Inc
To help our donors achieve their philanthropic goals and potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $135,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $140,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| German American Festival | $40,000 |
| The Education Partnership | $25,500 |
| Casey's Clubhouse | $10,000 |
| Heroes Supporting Heroes | $10,000 |
| Women's Help Center Inc | $10,000 |
| Kidcelerate | $10,000 |
| Children's Advocacy Center of Kent County | $10,000 |
| Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc | $5,000 |
| The Open Door Pantry | $5,000 |
| Elizabeth Seton Center Inc | $5,000 |
| Community of Hope Free Health Clinic | $5,000 |
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, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Wesley community services, inc. is focused on providing services to older adults and those of low income. it was established in 2005 as a faith-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing services to people of all faiths in a…
To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.
The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.
To provide safety and empowerment to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and to work to eliminate sexual victimization and domestic violence through shelter, treatment, education and social change.
Women's and children's crisis shelter is committed to providing safety, shelter and hope to victims of domestic violence.
The wcpa is an emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and their minor children.
To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.
To provide direct services for all victims & survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse, education & prevention activities, advocacy, and leadership in partnershi pwith the community in their efforts aimed at eradicating domestic…
Counseling, advocacy, and shelter services for victims of domestic and sexual violence in beaver county. also, prevention and education programs for the community.
Wesley family services foundation ("foundation") is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and has been further classified as a type i supporting organization engaging in fund-raising, research and other charitable activities on behalf of…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Help Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 16 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 GBU Financial Life ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GAF Society ↗
- Who funds CASEY'S CLUBHOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION TROOP APPRECIATION ↗
- Who funds HEROES SUPPORTING HEROES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ALLEGHENY COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds KIDCELERATE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE FREE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH SETON CENTER INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 GBU Foundation Inc 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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