· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY | $12,384 |
| BUHL FARM TRUST | $9,288 |
| FRENCH CREEK COUNCIL 532 | $9,288 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,192 |
| ST MICHAEL BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CH | $6,192 |
| Baughman Family Community Center | $6,192 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,096 |
| FH BUHL CLUB | $3,096 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,096 |
| COMM LIBRARY OF SHENANGO VALLEY | $3,096 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph P Kittredge Jr Char Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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