· Private foundation
John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of JOHN NESBIT REES & SARAH HENNE REES CHARITABLE FOU’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSE | $20,000 |
| SENECA HILLS BIBLE CAMP | $20,000 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you 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
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 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
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 Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou 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.
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.
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