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J B Finley Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$107k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Human Services$221kReligion$128kEducation$99kYouth Development$87kHealth$80kCommunity Improvement$67kFood & Nutrition$49kHousing & Shelter$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $83k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh$11,791
Women Against Abuse Legal Center$10,715
SENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE$10,000
Lighthouse Memorial Christian Center$10,000
Allegheny County Bar Foundation$10,000
ALIQUIPPA IMPACT INC$10,000
Vietgroup Empowers$10,000
Melting Pot Ministries$10,000
East End Cooperative Ministry$8,215
Family First Inc$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Literacy Council of Southwestern Pa$3,924
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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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 12%NEW DAY INCORPORATED: $15k → 16%PEOPLES EMERGENCY CENTER: $6k → 22%Family First Inc: $8k → 13%DON'T STOP DREAMIN: $3k → 9%NEW DAY INCORPORATED: $15k → 16%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $6k → 7%UNITED METHODIST HUMAN SERVICES: $8k → 16%COMPUTER REACH: $15k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $25k → 11%East End Cooperative Ministry: $8k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $15k → 11%OUTREACH TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $16k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $15k → 11%PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $15k → 11%GREATER VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICE: $8k → 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.

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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$195k · 8 repeat orgs$734k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
67

Total granted

$195k
$647k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+30%

Still filing today

88%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationReligionOther

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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
    2× · 2018–2023 · $32k · revenue +64%
  • ND
    NEW DAY INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue +1%
  • SJ
    St James Haven Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • HN
    HELLO NEIGHBORgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +97%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TK
    THE KISKI SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +6%

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
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
2
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services
3
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
4
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
5
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation

The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.

Philanthropy
6
The Pittsburgh Project

The Pittsburgh Project is an urban neighborhood based, Christian community development organization that operates a series of youth development after school and summer programs and provides homeowner services for the elderly, disabled and…

Community Improvement
7
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh

Provide opportunties for individuals and families to grow in spirit, mind and body.

Human Services
8
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
9
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
10
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
11
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank

Our mission is to leverage the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Empowerment Association Inc 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPrivate Charitable Foundati…Arts and Cultural Organizat…Jewish Education and Commun…Medical Research & Health F…Faith-Based Ministry Organi…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Support ServicesYouth & Family Support Serv…Industry Associations and A…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr18%14%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
11%
3,587/34,129

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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
46/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INC — $31,852 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INCSt James Haven Inc — $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — $22,500 · OtherSENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE — $20,000 · OtherWESTMORELAND COUNTY REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY — $20,000 · OtherCLELIAN HEIGHTS INC — $18,750 · OtherPITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION — $17,500 · Other+41 more — $341,285 · Other+41 moreNEW DAY INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesNEW DAY INCHELLO NEIGHBOR — $25,000 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBOROutreach Teen and Family Services Inc — $16,398 · Human ServicesOutreach Teen and Fami…CENTER OF LIFE — $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF LIFENEW SUN RISING — $15,000 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISINGPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS — $15,000 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH CONSERVATIO…Computer Reach — $15,000 · Human ServicesComputer ReachLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER — $13,000 · Human ServicesLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENT…EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $8,215 · Human ServicesGREATER VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY FIRST INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesBRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $7,500 · Human Services+3 more — $15,348 · Human Services+3 moreALIQUIPPA IMPACT INC — $25,810 · Youth DevelopmentALIQUIPPA …VAGABOND MISSIONS — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentVAGABOND M…Reading Ready Pittsburgh — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentReading Re…LUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $8,164 · Youth DevelopmentLUCY OUTRE…THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND — $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PHILAD…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $6,165 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…LEAF PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAF PROJE…COATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOATESVILL…YOUNG LIFE — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRELLIS FOR TOMORROW — $16,716 · PhilanthropyMELTING POT MINISTRIES — $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPOISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPITTSBURGH ARTS & LECTURES INC — $20,750 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON THREADS — $7,500 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,398 · Arts & CultureTHE KISKI SCHOOL — $21,703 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $15,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementVietgroup Empowers — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLITERACY COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN PA — $3,924 · Community Improvement
Other$523,887Human Services$190,461Youth Development$84,639Philanthropy$46,716Arts & Culture$42,648Education$36,703Community Improvement$23,924

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INC — $31,852 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNEW DAY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSt James Haven Inc — $27,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetALIQUIPPA IMPACT INC — $25,810 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KISKI SCHOOL — $21,703 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH ARTS & LECTURES INC — $20,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION — $17,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRELLIS FOR TOMORROW — $16,716 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOutreach Teen and Family Services Inc — $16,398 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCENTER OF LIFE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRINCE OF PEACE CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR — $15,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNEW SUN RISING — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetComputer Reach — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER — $13,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH — $11,791 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE LEGAL CENTER — $10,715 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMELTING POT MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROW PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVietgroup Empowers — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKELLEY LATTA MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLOST AND FOUND PHARMACY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $8,215 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $8,164 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY FIRST INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $7,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMON THREADS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $6,165 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPEPHL — $5,881 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $5,714 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACHIEVA — $5,277 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLEAF PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN PA — $3,924 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE HOUSING ASSISTANCE INC — $3,880 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Richard King Mellon F…The Heinz EndowmentsThe Grable FoundationCommunity Foundation …Eqt FoundationThe United Way of Sou…Howard & Nell E Mille…McElhattan FoundationDollar Bank FoundationPitcairn-Crabbe Found…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA66.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Eqt Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · McElhattan Foundation · Dollar Bank Foundation · Pitcairn-Crabbe 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 J B Finley 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Comprehensive Housing Assistance Inc — 23% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 87 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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