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GBU Foundation Inc

To help our donors achieve their philanthropic goals and potential.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$138kEducation$56kArts & Culture$40kHealth$15kPublic Benefit$10kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $135,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $140,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
German American Festival$40,000
The Education Partnership$25,500
Women's Help Center Inc$10,000
Casey's Clubhouse$10,000
Heroes Supporting Heroes$10,000
Children's Advocacy Center of Kent County$10,000
Kidcelerate$10,000
The Open Door Pantry$5,000
Community of Hope Free Health Clinic$5,000
Metro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc$5,000
Elizabeth Seton Center Inc$5,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Kidcelerate: $10k → 11%Children's Advocacy Center of Kent County: $10k → 11%Heroes Supporting Heroes: $10k → 11%Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh: $10k → 11%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 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
Wesley Community Services Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Women's Center and Shelter Civil Law Project

To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.

Human Services
3
Women Against Abuse Legal Center

The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal
4
Women's Aid Service Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Women's and Children's Crisis Shelter

Women's and children's crisis shelter is committed to providing safety, shelter and hope to victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
6
Wayne County Protective Agency Inc

The wcpa is an emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and their minor children.

Human Services
7
The Center for Women and Families Inc

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.

Human Services
8
The Women's Center

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…

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9
Women's Center of Beaver County

Counseling, advocacy, and shelter services for victims of domestic and sexual violence in beaver county. also, prevention and education programs for the community.

Human Services
10
Wesley Family Services Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
11
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

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…

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12
Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc

Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Help Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
5/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GBU Financial Life: $93,197 · OtherGBU Financial LifeWESTERN ALLEGHENY COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $10,000 · OtherWESTERN ALLEGHENY COMMUNITY LIBRARYWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INCCOMMUNITY OF HOPE FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $5,000 · OtherOPEN DOOR PANTRY INC: $5,000 · OtherELIZABETH SETON CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $45,500 · EducationSTOREHOUSE FOR TE…GAF Society: $40,000 · Arts & CultureGAF SocietyCHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ASSE…WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER …KIDCELERATE: $10,000 · Human ServicesKIDCELERATEHEROES SUPPORTING HEROES: $10,000 · Human ServicesHEROES SUPPORTI…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $10,000 · HealthCASEY'S CLUBHOUSE: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsOPERATION TROOP APPRECIATION: $10,000 · Public BenefitMetro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$128,197Education$45,500Arts & Culture$40,000Human Services$40,000Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Public Benefit$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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 budgetGBU Financial Life: $93,197 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $45,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN ALLEGHENY COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCASEY'S CLUBHOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION TROOP APPRECIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetELIZABETH SETON CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetro-Erie Meals on Wheels Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Eqt FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    How do I get to GBU Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to GBU Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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 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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