· Private foundation
Neal Martin Christensen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEAN B PURVIS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $75,000 |
| WHITE RIVER CRAFT CENTER | $50,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $45,000 |
| VICTIM OUTREACH INTERVENTION CENTER | $36,000 |
| WQED | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ROBIN'S HOME | $20,000 |
| HIS KIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| BC3 EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EVOLVE COACHING | $10,000 |
| BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| ST LUKES EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THE BUTLER ART CENTER | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WRWhite River Craft Center Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $355k · revenue +108% · 59% of their budget
- CHCommunity Health Clinic of Butler County Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $286k · revenue +38%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF THE ROSESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +60%
- FHFAMILY HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +44%
- DPDOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY KNOCHone grant, 2024 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Public library services
Identify, prioritize, provide and continually improve services, educational, self-improvement, leisure opportunities, literary materials, facilities, professional, voluntary and charitable leadership and support.
Provide programs and services that support & strengthen Wetzel County famiilies thru interagency coordination, collaboration and communication. communication.
Provides day care and twenty-four hour live-in facilities for developmental disabled adults.
Provides assistance to single mothers with dependent children experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness in bucks and montgomery counties in pennsylvania.
Public lending library
The mission of the warren library association is to provide all citizens in its service area access to library materials and information services which address the needs and expand the aspirations of the community for formal and lifelong…
Vibrant pittsburgh's mission is to accelerate the business community toward equitable, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, creating a future-forward region.
The Library is a center for informational resources and services, promoting literacy and lifelong learning. The Library has achieved the status of Family Place Library, a national initiative to encourage the beginning stages of literacy in…
Wrc senior services provides choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and rehabilitative health care.
To increase awareness about poverty and to promote comprehensive approaches to eliminate conditions that cause poverty and improve the quality of life in communities throughout the service area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Butler County and the most unlike its peers is Swing for the Troops. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds White River Craft Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Health Clinic of Butler County Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VICTIM OUTREACH INTERVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BUTLER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE COACHING INC ↗
- Who funds Robins Home Inc ↗
- Who funds SWING FOR THE TROOPS ↗
- Who funds BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Reading Ready Pittsburgh ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Butler County Bar Association Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Neal Martin Christensen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.