· Private foundation
Herbert G Feldman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVERLIFE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| WEATHERFORD WAGS | $13,050 |
| LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION | $12,723 |
| WEATHERFORD COLLEGE DOUNDATION INC | $12,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| PLEASANT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $8,000 |
| SAINT JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH | $8,000 |
| GIFTCARDS 4 CHANGE INC | $6,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL | $5,320 |
| THREE RIVER WATERKEEPERS | $5,000 |
| CAREITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SIERRA PACIFIC FURBABIES | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - JOHNSTOWN | $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 (FY17–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
76 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LOLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +85%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH8× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +39%
- CFCAREITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- DADREAMLIFE ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -47% · 27% of their budget
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The spca of pittsylvania county is committed to rescuing adoptable animals from impoundment and euthanasia, so they can be placed in proper homes. this is acheived primarily through vetting, fostering, and placing the animals in their…
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
Located in raleigh, nc, the spca of wake county works in over half the state of north carolina through collaborative partnerships that save pets and help people. significant activities include: decreasing the number of animals entering…
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
To aid in animal rescue and provide medical care, nourishment, and a safe haven for abandoned, abused, and disabled animals. to engage in education, advocacy and collaboration in its mission "to rescue one by one until there are none".
The animal rescue league of boston's vision is to confront animal cruelty and neglect at its root causes. through programs, services, and facilities focused on accessible animal care, public advocacy, and sustained anti-cruelty efforts...…
Wags rescue & referral is a small group of volunteers from bucks county, philadelphia and montgomery county, pa. the non-profit was established to help dogs affected by hurricane katrina by placing them in loving and safe homes. although…
The mission of animal care pa is to help caring people help animals by bridging the gap through our animal welfare initiatives that feed, care and educate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Giftcards 4 Change Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
67 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. 67 of the 152 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 LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE CO ↗
- Who funds CAREITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC ↗
- Who funds SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanport Township Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEATHERFORD WAGS ↗
- Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PYMATUNING LAKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIFTCARDS 4 CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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 · Hillman Family Foundations · Eqt Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · C F Holdship Charitable Trust · Upmc Group · Church Brew Works Foundation · The Burkholder 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 Herbert G Feldman Charitable 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.