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· Private foundation
JD CHARITABLE TRUST
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$30k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Health$20kArts & Culture$20kEducation$16kPhilanthropy$12kYouth Development$10kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$27k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
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2022
dream
2023
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2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$497k
Total assets
Largest grants
- MAIN STREET THEATRE COMPANY$20,000
- KIDS INNOVATION PLAYGROUND$10,401
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 71% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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The Mountain Playhouse
To enrich the lives of people within rural southwestern pennsylvania with productions of live professional theater.
Arts & Culture
2
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
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3
Steel River Playhouse Inc
Non-profit theatre & education organization dedicated to sharing stories that reflect our collective humanity by providing a nurturing & empowering environment to represent & serve our diverse community.
Arts & Culture
4
Allentown Public Theatre
Allentown Public Theatre is dedicated to empowering our diverse communities through the performing arts. We expand opportunities for cultural participation and education in theatre, and create works that address contemporary issues.
Arts & Culture
5
Pittsburgh Opera Inc
To produce a range of artistic and educational programs to engage and enrich the community.
Arts & Culture
6
Hiway Theatre Inc
The hiway theatre is an organization which operates as a member supported community theater in jenkintown, pa. its mission is to preserve the historic hiway theatre and keep a local tradition alive for people passionate about film and the…
Arts & Culture
7
Pittsburgh Public Theater
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality.
Arts & Culture
8
Pittsburgh Festival Opera
Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…
Arts & Culture
9
Bucks County Playhouse Theater Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Pennsylvania Theatre of Performing
Community theatre
Arts & Culture
11
Salt Pa
To enrich the culture and provide excellent quality community theatre for Chester County, PA.
Arts & Culture
12
Marietta Center for the Arts
The mission of the susquehanna stage company is to celebrate, through theatrical performances, the common humanity binding us all together. we seek to create extraordinary theatre experiences that educate, challenge, inspire and serve the…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopeworks 'N Camden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jamie's Dream Team. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$26,866Health$20,027Arts & Culture$20,000Education$16,162Philanthropy$12,286Youth Development$10,401Community Improvement$5,000
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.
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation JD 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KIDS INNOVATION PLAYGROUND.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 834324955 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on KIDS INNOVATION PLAYGROUND, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Jd Charitable Trust?
Find your warmest path to Jd Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines