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Northwest Charitable 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.
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 $10k206 grants · $586k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $415k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
Anchored by a single position — about 94% of reported assets are held in Northwest Bancshares Inc.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED FUND OF WARREN COUNTY | $75,000 |
| BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC | $25,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST | $25,000 |
| LANCASTER LEBANON HABITAT FOR HUMAN | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSE | $20,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $20,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS GREATER PITTSBURGH | $19,000 |
| BELMONT HOUSING FINANCIAL EDUCATION | $18,000 |
| LEADERSHIP BUFFALO | $15,500 |
| PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT G | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN WELLNESS AGENCY | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S REHABILIATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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, $736k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Northwest Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 66% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
348 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2025, 245 since wound down; 126 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $413k 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
- UFUnited Fund of Warren County Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $530k · revenue +11%
- BEBRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +16%
BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE ENDLESSone grant, 2017 · $200k
- PDPITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +314%
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVone grant, 2020 · $27k
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.
To focus all available local, state, private and federal resources upon the goal of enabling low income families and low income individual of all ages to obtain the skills knowledge and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for…
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
Organization is dedicated to raising funds for programs that meet the human care needs of the people of cumberland county.
To be an action-oriented, visionary organization which will stimulate progress, foster economic growth and enhance individual opportunity to achieve a high quality of life for everyone.
The specific mission of the organization is to coordinate resources to inspire and empower people to acheive their full potential.
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…
Provide programs to help individuals and/or families achieve self-sufficiency.
The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…
To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Indiana United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wee Care Closet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
465 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. 465 of the 872 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMONWEALTH CHARITABLE MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds United Fund of Warren County Inc ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Erie County ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Warren PA ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment G ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Warren County ↗
- Who funds WARREN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Warren Sports Boosters ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Western New York ↗
- Who funds MARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRWIB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NIAGARA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD HELPERS ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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: Erie Community Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Community Foundation of Warren County · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Western New York Foundation · Philo & Sarah Blaisdell Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies · First Niagara 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 Northwest Charitable 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.
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