Pennsylvania · Private foundation
James Frances McCandless Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $262k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations James Frances McCandless Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 | 18 | $262k | 61% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $248k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $254k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $292k | 78% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $238k | 76% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $267k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $276k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $266k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Food Warehouse of Mercer County | $90,690 | 4 | 1% |
| Buhl Community Recreation Center | $90,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Prince of Peace Center | $55,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Buhl Park Corporation | $52,156 | 3 | 2% |
| Pittsburgh Youth Leadership | $51,085 | 3 | 12% |
| Mercer Area Library Inc | $49,300 | 4 | 9% |
| Children's Aid Society of Mercer County | $42,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Whole Life Services Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Three Rivers Marathon Inc | $37,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($362k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James Frances McCandless Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Hillman Family Foundations · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Upmc Group · The Heinz Endowments · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation
How this is measured
About James Frances McCandless Trust
- How much does James Frances McCandless Trust give?
- James Frances McCandless Trust reported 18 grants totaling $261,720 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James Frances McCandless Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are James Frances McCandless Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Food Warehouse of Mercer County ($91k), Buhl Community Recreation Center ($90k), Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc ($70k).
- Does James Frances McCandless Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James Frances McCandless Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James Frances McCandless Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust.
- Where is James Frances McCandless Trust based?
- James Frances McCandless Trust is based in PA.
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