Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $73k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $72k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $84k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $81k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $68k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $73k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $78k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $75k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Calvary United Methodist Church | $23,105 | 1 | n/a |
| Travis Manion Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Life Enrichment Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Move a Mountain Missions | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh | $19,699 | 1 | 1% |
| Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation | $17,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh | $16,652 | 1 | 1% |
| Creative Citizen Studios | $16,500 | 1 | 10% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($157k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Jefferson Regional Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Eqt Foundation
How this is measured
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About Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust
- How much does Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust give?
- Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $73,108 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (15%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Pittsburgh ($40k), Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Inc ($25k), Calvary United Methodist Church ($23k).
- Does Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The Heinz Endowments.
- Where is Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust based?
- Helen Ruth Gordon Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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