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Nat Hwilc Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$312kEducation$246kHealth$240kArts & Culture$91kHuman Services$80kCrime & Legal$41kAnimals$25kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $126k
$10,553
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$39,477
GREATER SEACOAST COMMUNITY HEALTH$20,227
COMMUNITY LIBRARY OF ALLEGHENY VALLEY$20,000
INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE$15,088
LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA$10,553
THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE$10,553
WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$10,553
THE WATSON INSTITUTE$5,096
TURTLE PANTS FARM$2,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $15k → 8%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $20k → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $15k → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $5k → 8%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $5k → 8%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $3k → 8%VALLEY POINTS FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 10%VALLEY POINTS FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 10%VALLEY POINTS FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 10%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%VALLEY POINTS FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 10%THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MOON TOWNSHIP: $5k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$1.0M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $214k · revenue +76%
  • CL
    Community Library of Allegheny Valley
    9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +27%
  • TW
    THE WATSON INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +272%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +27%
  • IW
    IN-STRIDE WITH THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -38%
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
Gettysburg Hospital

Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.

Health
2
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
3
Waynesboro Hospital

Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
4
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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5
The Good Samaritan Hospital of Lebanon Pennsylvania

The good samaritan hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare that improves the overall health of the community.

Health
6
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
7
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
8
Vna Home Health Services

Vna home health services provides part-time, skilled, intermittent home health services that have been ordered by a physician and are medically necessary to the treatment of an illness or injury. vna home health services offers a wide…

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9
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
10
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
11
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Points Family Young Men's Christian Association; the most unlike its peers is Turtle Pants Farm. 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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Library of Allegheny Valley: $180,000 · OtherCommunity Library of Allegheny ValleyFamilies First of the Greater Seacoast: $60,000 · OtherFamilies First of the Greater Seacoas…ALLEGHENY VALLEY YMCA: $30,000 · OtherALLEGHENY VALLEY YMCAALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES: $30,000 · OtherALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURC…IN-STRIDE WITH THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $15,000 · OtherIndependent Animal Rescue Inc: $12,500 · Other+4 more: $22,500 · Other+4 moreTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $115,096 · Human ServicesTHE WATSON INSTITUTEINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $77,588 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLEVALLEY POINTS FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY POINTS FAMILY YOUNG…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cros…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $214,477 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COM…WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $90,553 · Arts & CultureWESTMOREL…Greater Seacoast Community Health: $65,227 · HealthTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION: $60,553 · PhilanthropyLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $40,553 · Crime & Legal
Other$350,000Human Services$247,684Food & Nutrition$214,477Arts & Culture$90,553Health$65,227Philanthropy$60,553Crime & Legal$40,553

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 budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $214,477 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Library of Allegheny Valley: $180,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $115,096 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $90,553 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $77,588 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Seacoast Community Health: $65,227 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION: $60,553 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies First of the Greater Seacoast: $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $40,553 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY POINTS FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALLEGHENY VALLEY YMCA: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES: $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent Animal Rescue Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTurtle Pants Farm: $7,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HAVEN FARM SANCTUARY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MOON TOWNSHIP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…McCune Foundation Pnc…The Fine FoundationThe Grable FoundationHillman Family Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Fine Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Nat Hwilc Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nat Hwilc 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 20 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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