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Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char at a glance

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Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$738k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.9MPhilanthropy$2.3MReligion$1.8MHuman Services$874kYouth Development$735kRecreation & Sports$556kArts & Culture$513kFood & Nutrition$218kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $553k
  • $250k+2 grants · $988k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGH$738,000
HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH$250,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF$202,500
PITTSBURGH KOLLEL BAIS YITZHOR$100,000
YOUNG MEN & WOMENS HEBREW ASSN$50,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC$50,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$50,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$50,000
CHABAD OF SQUIRREL HILL$50,000
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE$33,333
PRIMARY CARE HEALTH SERVICES$25,000
JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND$16,000
DIVINE MERCY$7,500
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$5,100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $912k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh: $30k → 11%YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES: $6k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $158k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $100k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $100k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $100k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $100k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $63k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $50k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $50k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $50k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $50k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $25k → 11%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 41 repeat orgs$705k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
26

Total granted

$9.2M
$648k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+44%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • HA
    HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2019–2024 · $933k · revenue +31%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +93%
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • YA
    YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +27%
  • CJ
    CHABAD JEWISH CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $77k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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

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.

1
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
The Friends of the Pittsburgh Institutions
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3
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
4
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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5
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
6
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation

Phlf works within a 250-mile radius of pittsburgh, pennsylvania to: identify and save historically significant places; renew historic neighborhoods, towns, and urban areas; preserve historic farms and historically designated landscapes;…

Arts & Culture
7
University of Pittsburgh

The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…

Education
8
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services
9
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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10
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
11
Allegheny Conference On Community Development

See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…

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12
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Association On Aging; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 70 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGH: $2,188,000 · OtherYESHIVA SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGHTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF: $552,500 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OFYoung Men & Womens Hebrew Association: $383,333 · OtherYoung Men & Womens Hebrew AssociationJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND: $377,801 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUNDRODEF SHALOM CONGREGATION: $340,000 · Other+46 more: $2,912,069 · Other+46 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1,605,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATI…HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $932,850 · EducationHILLEL ACADEM…THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $200,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORH…CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $113,333 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBR…CR JRS CHIP: $99,999 · EducationCR JRS CHIPSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $345,674 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH: $60,000 · Human Services+1 more: $6,407 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $250,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $133,333 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $75,000 · Arts & CultureCIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $200,000 · Food & NutritionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $166,667 · Religion
Other$6,753,703Philanthropy$1,605,000Education$1,406,182Human Services$912,081Arts & Culture$498,333Food & Nutrition$200,000Religion$166,667

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1,605,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $932,850 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $500,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND: $377,801 over 8y, 38% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $345,674 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $250,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $200,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPittsburgh Kollel Bais Yitzchok: $200,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $200,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $166,667 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $158,334 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $133,333 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH: $125,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $113,333 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $108,333 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCR JRS CHIP: $99,999 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetRIVERVIEW APARTMENTS INC: $79,326 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC: $66,666 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrimary Care Health Services Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTAG COMMUNITY VENTURES: $40,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPERSAD CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH SIDE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $10,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetCOMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES CORPORATION: $6,407 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUQUESNE CLUB: $643 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Pittsburgh Kollel Bais Yitzchok ↗
  • Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CR JRS CHIP ↗
  • Who funds RIVERVIEW APARTMENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Primary Care Health Services 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.

Jewish Federation of …The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Giant Eagle FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Fine FoundationHerman & Helen Lipsit…David S Shapira Found…The Jack Buncher Foun…The Grable FoundationAllegheny FoundationThe Heinz Endowments
Jewish Federation of Greater PittsburghPA42.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Giant Eagle Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust · David S Shapira Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · The Heinz Endowments

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char 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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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