· Private foundation
Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust
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.
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 $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY | $12,384 |
| FRENCH CREEK COUNCIL 532 | $9,288 |
| BUHL FARM TRUST | $9,288 |
| ST MICHAEL BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CH | $6,192 |
| Baughman Family Community Center | $6,192 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,192 |
| COMM LIBRARY OF SHENANGO VALLEY | $3,096 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,096 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,096 |
| FH BUHL CLUB | $3,096 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 25% of your 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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +129%
- BFBUHL FARM TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +76%
- BRBUHL REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +13%
Funded once
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.
Provide childcare to working parents, promote early childhood education.
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
Combining leadership and teamwork to provide caring, high quality, efficient, and affordable primary health care for all segments of the community.
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Providing mental health services to those in need
Nursing facility for the elderly. the organization owns and operates an intermediate care nursing facility for the aged and disabled. independent living and assisted living apartments are provided.
To promote and meet the health, fitness and recreational needs of people of all ages and to enhance the quality of life through a wide range of programs, services, activities and education.
The Murrysville Community Library serves the communitys evolving informational needs. We connect people with ideas and information, promote lifelong learning, and help build the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buhl Community Recreation Center and the most unlike its peers is Buhl Regional Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BUHL FARM TRUST ↗
- Who funds BUHL REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUHL COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Shenango Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds MAPLE TREE CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
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: Aurora R Kittredge Charitable Trust · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · James Frances McCandless Trust · 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 P Kittredge Jr Char 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.