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John F & Nancy Lv Fleck Oyler Foundation

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.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$371kArts & Culture$49kScience & Tech$15kFood & Nutrition$6kYouth Development$5kHousing & Shelter$5kInternational$3kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$15,500
TWO FRONTIERS PROJECT$10,000
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
BRIDGEVILLE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,450
FRIENDS OF OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE$5,000
ZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT$5,000
PUBLIC ART BRIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$4,300
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$2,000
LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION$2,000
BRIDGEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
OASIS FARM AND FISHERY$1,000
FRIENDS OF CUMBRES & TOLTEC$1,000
WQED$1,000
BRIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$430k · 20 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
3

Total granted

$430k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+17%

Still filing today

65%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2019–2025 · $367k · revenue +28%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +11%
  • BC
    BRIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • JS
    JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +7%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF QUAKER VALLEY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +17%
  • TU
    THE UPSTART CROW INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +93%

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
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

2
Chamber Music Pittsburgh

To present world class chamber music ensembles and soloists, promising emerging artists, and innovative programs; and to foster an appreciation for chamber music in the pittsburgh community by offering educational programs and experiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Carnegie Institute

To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.

Arts & Culture
4
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc

See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…

Arts & Culture
5
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
6
Pittsburgh Opera Inc

The mission of pittsburgh opera, inc. is to enrich pittsburgh and the tri-state area culturally and to draw national and international attention to the region. this commitment is comprised of four goals: creating opera productions which…

Arts & Culture
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
9
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
10
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…

Arts & Culture
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge." In the 21st century the Society sustains this mission in three…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Greater Pittsburgh Suzuki Institute. 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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%5%<5yr12%9%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr21%14%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%2%<5yr12%86%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr21%3%20–35yr16%2%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
8%
764/9,883

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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $366,700 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH+1 more — $1,300 · EducationPUBLIC ART BRIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $14,800 · OtherPUBLIC ART …BRIDGEVILLE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,450 · OtherBRIDGEVILLE…FRIENDS OF OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE — $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF …JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA INC — $2,500 · OtherJAPAN-AMERI…+15 more — $12,700 · Other+15 morePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER PITTSBURGH SUZUKI INSTITUTE — $2,750 · Arts & CultureNEVILLE HOUSE ASSOCIATES INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureWQED MULTIMEDIA — $1,250 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $700 · Arts & CultureTHE TWO FRONTIERS PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Science & TechZUNI YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROJECT — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $3,000 · Food & NutritionBRIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $1,500 · Food & NutritionLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $3,000 · Human Services
Education$368,000Other$46,450Arts & Culture$22,200Science & Tech$10,000Youth Development$5,000Food & Nutrition$4,500Human Services$3,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $366,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH SUZUKI INSTITUTE — $2,750 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetJAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBRIDGEVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBridgeville Public Library — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEVILLE HOUSE ASSOCIATES INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF QUAKER VALLEY SCHOOLS — $1,300 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThree Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras — $200 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO3.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization John F & Nancy Lv Fleck Oyler Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to John F & Nancy Lv Fleck Oyler Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John F & Nancy Lv Fleck Oyler Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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