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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.

$62k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,192
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,384
Organizations funded a year
10 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$62k0%
FY202410$56k30%
FY202310$60k0%
FY202210$69k10%
FY202110$61k0%
FY202010$60k10%
FY201910$57k0%
FY201810$51k0%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$106kReligion$106kRecreation & Sports$106kPublic Benefit$79kHealth$48kHuman Services$32kEducation$26kAnimals$26kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Mercer County$105,73991%
Buhl Farm Trust$79,30392%
Buhl Regional Health Foundation$35,43350%
Buhl Community Recreation Center$26,43490%
Community Library of the Shenango Valley$26,43491%
Shenango Valley YMCA$20,54976%
Maple Tree Cancer Alliance$12,85621%
Humane Society of Mercer County Inc$8,05034%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($221k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Mercer County: $105,739 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBuhl Farm Trust: $79,303 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetBuhl Regional Health Foundation: $35,433 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBuhl Community Recreation Center: $26,434 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Library of the Shenango Valley: $26,434 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetShenango Valley YMCA: $20,549 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetMaple Tree Cancer Alliance: $12,856 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHumane Society of Mercer County Inc: $8,050 over 3y, 4.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Aurora R Kittredge Ch…Buhl Regional Health …Community Foundation …James Frances McCandl…Amazonsmile Foundation
Aurora R Kittredge Charitable TrustOH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust

How much does Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust give?
Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust reported 10 grants totaling $61,920 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (20%), Religion (20%), Recreation & Sports (20%).
Who are Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Mercer County ($106k), Buhl Farm Trust ($79k), Buhl Regional Health Foundation ($35k).
Does Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aurora R Kittredge Charitable Trust, Buhl Regional Health Foundation, Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.
Where is Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust based?
Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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