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Hill Ruth a - Ui

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$395k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Religion$1.2MEducation$756kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $315k
$37,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) FOUNDATION$210,250
Individual grant recipient$105,125
GENEVA COLLEGE$37,500
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$25,000
ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY$12,500
MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $3k → 6%Gettysburg College: $3k → 9%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%GENEVA COLLEGE: $38k → 10%PGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $105k → 11%WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $5k → 12%LYCOMING COLLEGE: $3k → 12%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $8k → 13%CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PA: $16k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 14%EDINBORO UNIVERSITY: $6k → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN: $5k → 13%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) FOUNDATION: $210k → 10%MALONE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $25k → 20%PGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $101k → 11%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $3k → 13%PENN WEST CLARION UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $1k → 14%PENN STATE ERIE THE BEHREND COLLEGE: $5k → 15%PENN STATE MAIN: $5k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) FOUNDATION: $205k → 10%PGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $96k → 11%MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $9k → 15%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) FOUNDATION: $202k → 10%PGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $90k → 11%MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) FOUNDATION: $199k → 10%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) FOUNDATION: $191k → 10%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) FOUNDATION: $180k → 10%POINT PARK UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%CARLOW UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%CHATHAM UNIVERISTY: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
IN
OH
PA
NE
WV
VA
TN
FL

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 26 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$2.2M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+9%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

  • GC
    GENEVA COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • LU
    LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • WC
    WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • FU
    FISK UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • GU
    GANNON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +4%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
7
Widener University

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

Education
8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
Walsh University Inc

Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…

Education
10
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Fisk University. 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

17 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. 17 of the 38 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)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA FOUNDATION — $1,187,498 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $593,749 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+22 more — $216,640 · Other+22 moreGENEVA COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationGENEVA COLLE…LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $50,000 · EducationLIBERTY UNIV…MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY — $42,000 · EducationMERCYHURST U…FISK UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationFISK UNIVERS…WESTMINSTER COLLEGE — $22,500 · EducationWESTMINSTER …DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $11,250 · Education+8 more — $42,430 · Education+8 more
Other$1,997,887Education$243,180

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGENEVA COLLEGE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY — $42,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY — $30,720 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $11,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $8,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $6,430 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMALONE UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYCOMING COLLEGE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuntington University — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY — $2,500 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 GENEVA COLLEGE
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University
  • Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE
  • Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Huntington University
  • Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
  • Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY

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.

Trax Virginia S for Charities - TrPA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trax Virginia S for Charities - Tr · Premier Bank Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Hill Ruth a - Ui 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 38 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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