Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Hoyt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 189
- Grants FY2025
- 156
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 152 to 163
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Hoyt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 182 | $1.9M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 156 | $1.6M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 152 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 158 | $1.3M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 163 | $1.6M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 162 | $873k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westminster College | $1,407,765 | 5 | 1% |
| Western Pennsylvania Foundation for the Arts | $405,000 | 3 | 100% |
| All Aboard Ellwood Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 92% |
| Lark Enterprises Inc | $271,632 | 3 | 2% |
| New Castle Playhouse Inc | $216,586 | 4 | 32% |
| Lawrence County Economic Development Corp | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Upmc | $137,500 | 2 | n/a |
| New Visions for New Castle | $102,000 | 4 | 41% |
| Arise Lawrence County | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Cray Youth and Family Services Inc | $97,500 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 406 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hoyt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · The Bruce Family Foundation Inc · Joseph y Moses Foundation · United Way of Lawrence County · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Upmc Group · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Margaret L Henry Children's Home · Paul Lynch Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Hoyt Foundation
- How much does Hoyt Foundation give?
- Hoyt Foundation reported 189 grants totaling $2,041,798 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 152 and 163 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Hoyt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Community Improvement (22%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Hoyt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Westminster College ($1.4M), Western Pennsylvania Foundation for the Arts ($405k), All Aboard Ellwood Inc ($400k).
- Does Hoyt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hoyt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hoyt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, The Bruce Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hoyt Foundation based?
- Hoyt Foundation is based in PA.
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