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Kennametal Foundation at a glance

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Kennametal Foundation

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.

$147k
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

82% of Kennametal Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The United Way Of Southwestern Pennsylvania, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Kennametal Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $147k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’21
0
’22
1
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$404kEducation$124kHuman Services$25k
02FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$4,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$48k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Westmoreland County$80,000
National Merit Scholarship Fund$18,695
University of Pittsburgh$12,000
Penn State University$10,000
Pittsburgh Technical College$5,000
St Olaf College$5,000
EWCTC$4,500
Ronald McDonald House Charities$4,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities$4,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities$2,000
University of Virginia Darden$1,250
Seton Hill University$500
St Vincent College$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%St Olaf College: $5k → 11%United Way of Southwestern PA: $84k → 10%Pittsburgh Technical College: $5k → 11%Penn State University: $10k → 16%National Merit Scholarship Fund: $19k → 14%University of Virginia Darden: $1k → 8%United Way of Westmoreland County: $80k → 10%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $10k → 11%National Merit Scholarship Fund: $19k → 14%United Way of Southwestern PA: $80k → 10%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $4k → 11%National Merit Scholarship Fund: $18k → 14%United Way of Southwestern PA: $80k → 10%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $4k → 11%National Merit Scholarship Fund: $18k → 14%United Way of Westmoreland County: $80k → 10%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $2k → 11%National Merit Scholarship Fund: $16k → 14%Seton Hill University: $500 → 10%University of Pittsburgh: $12k → 11%EWCTC: $5k → 10%St Vincent College: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$269k · 3 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$269k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-19%
+11%

Still filing today

33%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UW
    United Way of Westmoreland County
    2× · 2021–2022 · $160k
  • NM
    National Merit Scholarship Fund
    5× · 2021–2025 · $89k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue -19%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +11%
  • PS
    Penn State University
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • PT
    PITTSBURGH TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -40%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of Westmoreland County: $160,000 · OtherUnited Way of Westmoreland CountyNational Merit Scholarship Fund: $89,395 · OtherNational Merit Scholarship FundRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC: $20,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA…Penn State University: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $5,750 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $244,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIAUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $12,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · Education
Other$285,145Philanthropy$244,000Education$23,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $244,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kennametal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kennametal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kennametal Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kennametal Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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