· Private foundation
John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $552k
Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Bernstein & Co Securities.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $150,000 |
| TITUSVILLE AREA HEALTH CENTER FOUND | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $66,667 |
| WQLN | $65,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| TITUSVILLE SHADE TREE COMMISSION | $40,000 |
| BENSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $35,000 |
| BARROW CIVIC THEATRE | $30,000 |
| TITUSVILLE AREA UNITED WAY | $25,659 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $22,000 |
| TITUSVILLE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| SENECA HILLS BIBLE CAMP | $20,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN PA | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 95%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +11%- FOFRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $315k · revenue +45% · 40% of their budget
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 532 FRENCH CREEK COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $213k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - TITUSVILone grant, 2020 · $70k
- ATACADEMY THEATREone grant, 2020 · $60k
- PSPENN STATE BEHREND CAMPUSone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
Scouting activities
Pennsylvania organization for watersheds and rivers (powr) provides the tools, training, education and resources that empower community watershed organization leaders and volunteers to protect and restore rivers and streams, advocate for…
Local historical education operation of a museum and provision of education relating to the history of tioga county pennsylvania
Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania
The pennsylvania recreation and park society empowers recreation and park professionals and citizen advocates to enhance life-enriching services for all pennsylvanians.
Education regarding railway history; railway car preservation; railway car excursions
The auburn civic symphony provides opportunities for foothill area musicians, composers, and audiences to share enriching musical experiences.
Wvia public media is a catalyst, convener and educator, using media, partnerships, powerful ideas and programs to improve lives and advance the best attributes of an enlightened society.
The council is a not for profit organization devoted to promoting, within the territory covered by charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america in accordance with the congressional program, the ability of boys, young…
Conservation efforts to study and maintain brights creek in canadensis, pa.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 532 FRENCH CREEK COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Oil Creek Railway Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BENSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds TITUSVILLE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Warren PA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Erie Philharmonic Inc ↗
- Who funds TITUSVILLE REGIONAL LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OIL CREEK 100 TRAIL RUNS ↗
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: Erie Community Foundation · Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw · The Five M Foundation · Fleming Family Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou?
Find your warmest path to John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou 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.
Play a game based on John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou’s filings →