· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k14 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION | $25,000 |
| JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHIL | $7,500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $6,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH | $5,500 |
| W PA SCHOOL FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,500 |
| ANIMAL FRIENDS | $3,500 |
| JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $3,500 |
| TOYS FOR PITTSBURGH TIKES | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID | $1,500 |
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, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +58% since the first grant, against -42% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +70%- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +102%
- AFAnimal Friends Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- IUISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -42%
- YSYESHIVA SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
To strengthen individuals, families, and the community by providing counseling and support services. inspired by the fundamental jewish value that "we are all responsible for one another", jfs supports people of all backgrounds by…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
To enrich the lives of individuals and families from all backgrounds and strengthen the community by providing compassionate, collaborative human services, guided by jewish values.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To help individuals and families meet life's challenges. jewish family service is a forward-thinking mental health and social service agency dedicated to helping people achieve their full potential while honoring choice, diversity, and…
To unite, sustain, and enhance the st. paul jewish community and strengthen bonds with jewish communities in israel and around the world.
To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.
The jewish federation of detroit is the cornerstone of our jewish community. we are committed to taking care of the needs of the jewish people and building a strong and vibrant jewish future, in detroit, in israel and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Association On Aging and the most unlike its peers is St Andrews Legacy Inc. 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 28 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 JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TOYS FOR PITTSBURGH TIKES ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
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 United Way of Southwestern · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Ralph & Dorothy Hartwell Schugar Charitable 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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