· Private foundation
Orris C&B Dewey Hirtzel Memorial Fd
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $387k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
- $250k+1 grant · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE ERIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $320,000 |
| THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PA | $175,000 |
| THIEL COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| ALLEGHENY COLLEGE | $110,000 |
| NORTH EAST HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $48,846 |
| EAST ERIE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SER | $45,833 |
| PENN STATE BEHREND COLLEGE | $45,000 |
| LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICIN | $45,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (MAIN) | $40,000 |
| CRESCENT HOSE COMPANY | $32,500 |
| MERCYHURST COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $20,000 |
| GANNON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CARLOW UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY | $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 (FY24–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $247k 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
- LELAKE ERIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $855k · revenue +11% · 92% of their budget
- TCTHIEL COLLEGE2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +17%
- GUGANNON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- LELAKE ERIE COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $70k
- BVBROOKSIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANYone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue -34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $55k
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.
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Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
The College is a diverse learning community that strives for academic excellence in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition through comprehensive programs rooted in the liberal arts and sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is Fairfield Hose Company. 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 55 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 99 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 LAKE ERIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THIEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds ERIE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT HOSE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FULLER HOSE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
- Who funds BROOKSIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds McCord Memorial Library Association ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds EAST ERIE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · North East Community Foundation · Robert S & Janet L Miller Family Fdn · Wabtec Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Online Giving 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 Orris C&B Dewey Hirtzel Memorial Fd 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.
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
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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