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Hough Wallace P Charitable Trust at a glance

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Hough Wallace P Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$144kEducation$95kHuman Services$48kYouth Development$27kInternational$27kRecreation & Sports$13kEmployment$8k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
$31,406
Median grant
1
States reached
$788k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR BLIND$31,406
BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$8,045
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE - PITTSBURGH: $1k → 11%East Suburban Citizen Advocacy Inc: $13k → 10%The Watson Institute: $20k → 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $7k → 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $24k → 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 11%WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 11%WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $9k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 9 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$278k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+11%

Still filing today

44%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEmploymentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WF
    WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $56k · revenue +62%
  • MA
    MARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER
    2× · 2020–2022 · $34k · revenue +78%
  • WF
    WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES
    2× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue ×69

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WATSON INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +277%
  • WP
    WESTERN PA SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -47%
  • ES
    East Suburban Citizen Advocacy Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -50%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
2
Westchester School for Special Children

To provide services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. the school runs preschool and school age programs.

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3
Potential Inc

Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.

Human Services
4
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
5
The Children's Institute Parent Company

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
6
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
7
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
8
Parent Education and Advocacy Leadership Center

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.

Education
9
Children's Therapy Center

To maximize the potential of children with special needs by providing individualized, family centered intervention services.

Health
10
Melmark Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Dr Gertrude a Barber Center Inc

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,…

Human Services
12
The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Watson Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR BLIND: $51,566 · OtherWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR BLINDCLELIAN HEIGHTS SCHOOL: $28,000 · OtherCLELIAN HEIGHTS SCHOOLBest Buddies International Inc: $27,161 · OtherBest Buddies International IncBOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA LAUREL: $15,889 · OtherBOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA LAURELWestern Pennsylvania School for: $15,778 · OtherWestern Pennsylvania School forMARS HOME FOR YOUTH: $10,000 · OtherMARS HOME FOR YOUTHWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $56,336 · Human ServicesWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INCWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $29,379 · Human ServicesWESLEY FAMILY SERVICESTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE WATSON INSTITUTEEast Suburban Citizen Advocacy Inc: $12,500 · Human ServicesEast Suburban Citizen Advocacy IncPediatric Palliative Care Coalition: $6,526 · Human Services+1 more: $1,276 · Human ServicesMARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $33,897 · HealthMARY & ALEXANDER L…Spina Bifida Assoc of Western PA: $20,000 · HealthSpina Bifida Assoc…THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $5,669 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOM…WESTERN PA SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsBENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $8,045 · EmploymentTHE ARC OF INDIANA COUNTY: $7,463 · Education
Other$148,394Human Services$126,017Health$59,566Recreation & Sports$12,500Employment$8,045Education$7,463

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $56,336 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $33,897 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $29,379 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpina Bifida Assoc of Western PA: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEast Suburban Citizen Advocacy Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF INDIANA COUNTY: $7,463 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPediatric Palliative Care Coalition: $6,526 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $5,669 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $1,276 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…V Kelly for Handicapp…Pittsburgh Penguins F…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…The United Way of Sou…Fisa FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Staunton Farm Foundat…The Grable FoundationDsf Charitable Founda…Clapp G H Decd Char a…John E & Sue M Jackso…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hough Wallace P Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hough Wallace P Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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