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J B Finley Charitable Trust at a glance

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J B Finley Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$221kReligion$128kEducation$99kYouth Development$87kHealth$80kCommunity Improvement$67kFood & Nutrition$49kHousing & Shelter$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$14,631
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS PA$20,000
WATER STREET MINISTRIES$20,000
HERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$15,000
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH$14,631
DC ARTS AND HUMANITIES EDUCATION$10,000
CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINICS OF PHILADELPHIA$10,000
ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY$9,631
SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE$4,631
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WATER STREET MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 12%NEW DAY INCORPORATED: $15k → 16%Family First Inc: $8k → 13%DON'T STOP DREAMIN: $3k → 9%NEW DAY INCORPORATED: $15k → 16%PEOPLES EMERGENCY CENTER: $6k → 22%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
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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$195k · 8 repeat orgs$838k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
77

Total granted

$195k
$734k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+28%

Still filing today

88%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • HN
    HELLO NEIGHBORgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +97%
  • TK
    THE KISKI SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +6%
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
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
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh

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

Human Services
4
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
5
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
6
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

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

Education
7
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Family Guidance Inc

Transforming the lives of youth from historically underserved neighborhoods through intentional relationships and the promise of jesus christ.

Human Services
10
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
11
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
12
Literacy Council of Lanc-Leb Lva

Our mission is success through lifelong learning and learning for life. our vision is for adults to have the skills to transform their lives, sustain their families and strengthen their communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Empowerment Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 95 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
48/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS PA: $20,000 · Other+48 more: $420,006 · Other+48 moreNEW DAY INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNEW DAY INCHELLO NEIGHBOR: $25,000 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBORWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $20,000 · Human ServicesWATER STREET MINISTRIE…Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc: $16,398 · Human ServicesOutreach Teen and Fami…NEW SUN RISING: $15,000 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISINGPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $15,000 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH CONSERVATIO…CENTER OF LIFE: $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF LIFEComputer 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 …Reading Ready Pittsburgh: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentReading R…LUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $8,164 · Youth DevelopmentLUCY OUTR…THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PHILA…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $6,165 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …LEAF PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAF PROJ…COATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOATESVIL…YOUNG LIFE: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE KISKI SCHOOL: $21,703 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH: $14,631 · EducationTRELLIS FOR TOMORROW: $16,716 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPOISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMELTING POT MINISTRIES: $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 & CultureWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE LEGAL CENTER: $10,715 · Crime & LegalALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINICS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$586,358Human Services$210,461Youth Development$84,639Education$51,334Philanthropy$46,716Arts & Culture$42,648Crime & Legal$30,715

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetNEW SUN RISING: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER OF LIFE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $15,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetPRINCE OF PEACE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetComputer Reach: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH: $14,631 over 1y, 0.8% 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 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 budgetGROW PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKELLEY LATTA MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMELTING POT MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVietgroup Empowers: $10,000 over 1y, 12% 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 budgetCOMMON THREADS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY FIRST INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $7,500 over 1y, 6.6% 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 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…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

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 J B Finley Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J B Finley Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
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 95 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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