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Gray Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$68kReligion$52kHealth$41kPhilanthropy$39kHousing & Shelter$35kYouth Development$32kHuman Services$27kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,085
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DuBois Area United Way$6,000
DuBois Senior Community Center$5,000
The Salvation Army$5,000
DuBois Area Historical Society$4,000
First United Presbyterian Church$3,500
Pentz Run Youth Services$3,000
St Catherine of Siena Church$3,000
Free Medical Clinic Of DuBois$3,000
We Care for Kids$3,000
Cultural Resources$3,000
Mengle Memorial Library$3,000
Square One Community Inc$3,000
Young People Who Care$3,000
American Red Cross$2,500
Foundation For Free Enterprise$2,085
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh: $1k → 11%Allegheny YMCA: $500 → 11%Haven House Shelter: $6k → 12%Haven House Shelter: $6k → 12%Haven House Shelter: $4k → 12%Haven House Shelter: $3k → 12%Haven House Shelter: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$320k · 33 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
9

Total granted

$320k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+22%

Still filing today

45%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CR
    CULTURAL RESOURCES INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +17%
  • MM
    Mengle Memorial Library
    3× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • DA
    DUBOIS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • AC
    AGAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +25%
  • PE
    PENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • HS
    Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Parish
    one grant, 2024 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

2
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…

Education
4
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

5
DuBois Regional Medical Center

To provide the patient with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. it's the vision of the system to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality, service…

Health
6
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
Monessen Public Library

Monessen Public Library provides collection facilities and services to the people of the Monessen community, which assists them in fulfilling their need for information, research sources, and cultural enrichment.

9
Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Coe College

Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.

Education
12
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dubois Area United Way and the most unlike its peers is Mengle Memorial Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr13%10%5–10yr17%0%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr19%24%35–55yr19%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr17%0%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr19%16%35–55yr19%55%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
7%
533/7,223

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Salvation Army — $31,500 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyFIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $24,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSt Catherine Of Siena Church — $20,000 · OtherSt Catherine Of Siena ChurchCatholic Charities — $19,000 · OtherCatholic CharitiesAmerican Red Cross — $14,000 · OtherAmerican Red CrossDUBOIS AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — $12,000 · OtherPenn State UniversityDuBois — $12,000 · OtherYOUNG PEOPLE WHO CARE INC — $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $9,000 · Other+22 more — $74,350 · Other+22 moreDUBOIS AREA UNITED WAY — $39,000 · PhilanthropyDUBOIS AREA …HAVEN HOUSE SHELTER — $20,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,500 · Human ServicesMengle Memorial Library — $7,500 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER — $3,000 · EducationCornell University — $3,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $3,000 · EducationWILSON COLLEGE — $3,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationFREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DUBOIS INC — $15,500 · HealthPENTZ RUN YOUTH SERVICES INC — $3,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION — $9,380 · Youth DevelopmentWE CARE FOR KIDS — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentCULTURAL RESOURCES INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureSQUARE ONE COMMUNITY INC — $4,500 · Religion
Other$226,350Philanthropy$39,000Human Services$22,000Education$20,000Health$18,500Youth Development$17,380Arts & Culture$7,500Religion$4,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDUBOIS AREA UNITED WAY — $39,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE SHELTER — $20,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetFREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DUBOIS INC — $15,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION — $9,380 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWE CARE FOR KIDS — $8,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCULTURAL RESOURCES INC — $7,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMengle Memorial Library — $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDUBOIS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,350 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetAGAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $6,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSQUARE ONE COMMUNITY INC — $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPENTZ RUN YOUTH SERVICES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON COLLEGE — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDuBois Educational Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDUBOIS SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER DBA PARKSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN DUBOIS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 DUBOIS AREA UNITED WAY
  • Who funds HAVEN HOUSE SHELTER
  • Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DUBOIS INC
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION
  • Who funds WE CARE FOR KIDS
  • Who funds CULTURAL RESOURCES INC
  • Who funds Mengle Memorial Library
  • Who funds DUBOIS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds AGAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE INC
  • Who funds SQUARE ONE COMMUNITY INC
  • Who funds PENTZ RUN YOUTH SERVICES INC
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER
  • Who funds Cornell University
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
  • Who funds WILSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds DuBois Educational Foundation
  • Who funds DUBOIS SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER DBA PARKSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER

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.

Glenn & Ruth Mengle Foundation TrustPA34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Glenn & Ruth Mengle Foundation Trust · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Dubois Area United Way · The Frank Varischetti Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gray Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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