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Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable

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.

$90k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$65k27%
FY202416$78k0%
FY202317$85k12%
FY202216$96k19%
FY202113$82k0%
FY202015$85k20%
FY201913$82k0%
FY201813$81k0%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$299kFood & Nutrition$155kPhilanthropy$103kAnimals$73kEducation$71kHealth$58kYouth Development$26kCivil Rights$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($362k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Association on Aging: $155,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $42,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh: $41,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $31,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Animal Rescue: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetToys for Pittsburgh Tikes: $10,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pittsburgh Promise Foundation: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Andrews Legacy Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetThe Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsraaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 United Way of SouthwesternPA14× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Southwestern · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable?

Find your warmest path to Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable 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.

About Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable

How much does Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable give?
Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable reported 16 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Philanthropy (12%).
Who are Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Association on Aging ($155k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($43k), Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh ($41k).
Does Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Southwestern, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable based?
Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable is based in PA.

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 28 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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