· Private foundation
Joseph Elias Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PGH | $52,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $10,916 |
| SQUIRREL HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $1,800 |
| JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| JEWISH CEMETERY & BURIAL ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| HOLOCAUST CENTER OF PITTSBURGH | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $218 |
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $200 |
| BLAWNOX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $150 |
| B'NAI B'RITH INTERNATIONAL | $110 |
| PARKVIEW PLEASANT VALLEY FIRE ASSOCIATION | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85 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
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PGH4× · 2022–2025 · $212k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH SHALOM9× · 2017–2025 · $76k
- SHSQUIRREL HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY8× · 2017–2025 · $20k
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI-AFLone grant, 2021 · $2k
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +70%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEone grant, 2018 · $250
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
The jewish agency for israel - north american council (the organization"), was organized to work with and in support of nonprofit organizations in israel active in the fields of aliyah (immigration) and absorption; service to vulnerable…
The jewish fertility foundation (jff) engages hopeful parents by providing financial assistance, emotional support, and infertility education to those struggling to build their families.
The mission of the youngstown area jewish federation is to sustain and enrich the quality of life for the jewish people regionally, in israel and worldwide. we are guided by the values of tzedkah (righteousness), klal yisrael (the…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
Enriching jewish life in northwest indiana, in israel and around the world through service, programming, advocacy and fundraising.
The Jewish Community Council of Erie is a community-based organization serving individuals and families in the Erie area with a wide range of social and educational services, as well as capacity-building support to other community-based…
Advancement of the Jewish Community
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Association On Aging and the most unlike its peers is Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 44 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVA ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA ↗
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: David S Shapira Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · 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 Joseph Elias 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 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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