· Private foundation
Hough Wallace P Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR BLIND | $31,406 |
| BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $8,045 |
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 (FY17–24, $126k) 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 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- WFWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2023 · $56k · revenue +62%
- MAMARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER2× · 2020–2022 · $34k · revenue +78%
- WFWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES2× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue ×69
Funded once
- TWTHE WATSON INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +277%
- WPWESTERN PA SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -47%
- ESEast Suburban Citizen Advocacy Incone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -50%
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.
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
To provide services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. the school runs preschool and school age programs.
Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
The mission of the peal center is to educate and empower families to ensure that children, youth and young adults with disabilities and special health care needs lead rich, active lives as full members of their schools and communities.
To maximize the potential of children with special needs by providing individualized, family centered intervention services.
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…
We "make dreams come true." we provide children and adults with autism, intellectual/developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges and their families the education, services and resources needed to be self-reliant,…
The mission of the learning center for the deaf is to ensure that all deaf and hard of hearing children and adults thrive by having the knowledge, opportunity and power to design the future of their choice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Watson Institute and the most unlike its peers is Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Spina Bifida Assoc of Western PA ↗
- Who funds THE WATSON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PA SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds East Suburban Citizen Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF INDIANA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
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 · V Kelly for Handicapped Children · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Fisa Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Dsf Charitable Foundation Inc · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · John E & Sue M Jackson Irr
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 Hough Wallace P Charitable Trust 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.
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.