· Private foundation
Ira R Wood and Frances Wood Charitable Trust
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 $10k34 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $241k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURTNER HOUSE RESTORATION SOCIETY | $27,530 |
| BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| TOUR-ED MINE AND MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| JANES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - NEW KENSINGTON | $18,000 |
| TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,449 |
| THE ALLEGHENY VALLEY SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| ALLEGHENY VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,945 |
| MANCHESTER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $12,000 |
| FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CABOT CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHENY KISKI VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTORS OF ALLEGHENY VALLEY | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $9k) 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.
80 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TMTOUR-ED MINE & MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +200% · 38% of their budget
- BCBUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +179%
- LSLUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SPST PAUL'S GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $45k
- SPSTS PETER AND PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $16k
- DCDEER CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.
To serve people through a ministry of love, compassion, and mercy in the name of our lord, jesus christ.
"luthercare reflects christ's love through service to others." our mission is to enhance the quality of life through creative senior living opportunities, family life through quality child care and early learning centers, appropriate…
Support residents of laurel view village through fundraisers.
Operate a public library
To provide the highest quality of care to those in their golden years.
The mission of saint joseph villa is rooted in the mission of the sisters of st. joseph who founded and sponsor the villa. the sisters' mission of uniting people with god and with one another is the primary focus of the staff at the villa.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lutheran Service Society of W Pa and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
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 88 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 TOUR-ED MINE & MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY KISKI VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds Community Library of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
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 · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Ira R Wood and Frances Wood 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.
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