· Private foundation
Riggs Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Riggs Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Greater Johnstown, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Riggs Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $111k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k33 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Somerset Co Fair Jr Livestock Sale | $15,664 |
| Johnstown Symphony Orchestra | $11,600 |
| Community Foundation for Alleghenies | $10,000 |
| Somerset County Recreation & Trails Association | $7,500 |
| Laurel Arts | $7,000 |
| The Learning Lamp | $5,000 |
| Sipesville Volunteer Fire Company | $5,000 |
| The Challenge Program Inc | $5,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Somerset County | $5,000 |
| Somerset Inc | $4,500 |
| Somerset Area Little League | $3,970 |
| Zion Hoffman Lutheran Church | $3,600 |
| American Cancer Society | $2,500 |
| Boswell Volunteer Fire Dept | $2,500 |
| Somerset Historical Society | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
37 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- LALAUREL ARTS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +31%
- TCTHE CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +73%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC4× · 2018–2021 · $21k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UPUniversily Pittsburgh Cancer Instituteone grant, 2017 · $20k
- OVOHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +56%
- LLLittle League Baseball Inc Foundationone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 somerset county chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the somerset county, pennsylvania region as a superior locale in which to live, work, vacation and conduct business.
To support somerset county, pennsylvania residents in obtaining post- secondary education.
The organization was created for the economic development of somerset county, pennsylvania, with it's mission to promote industrial, commercial and retail growth in the county by recruiting and assisting new firms to locate in the county,…
Private country club located in mendota heights, mn. facilities include: golf, tennis, swimming pool and fine dining.
Provide fire and ambulance service to southeastern adams county pa
A community center which provides a meeting place and programs for the recreation and social welfare of all age groups in the community.
Provide emergency medical services.
To support the 4-h program (rutgers cooperative development - youth development program, somerset county, nj) in somerset county by providing a building for meeting space, sponsoring the annual 4-h fair, and providing other program support.
The support of a fire engine, hook and ladder and hose company for the control of fire in the borough of souderton and the surrounding community.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Volunteer Fire DepartmentCommunity Education and Protection
The mission of the Chippewa Township VFD is to provide fire services for Chippewa Township, PA, a township with a population of approximately 9,000 people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1889 Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Somerset County Rails to Trails. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 77 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
- Who funds LAUREL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SIPESVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET COUNTY RAILS TO TRAILS ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BOSWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HIGHLANDS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING LAMP INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds 1889 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET INC ↗
- Who funds BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds JENNERSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · The Wheeler Family Charitable Foundation · 1889 Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The Jacob Fend Foundation · David a Glosser Foundation · Lee Initiatives Inc · United Way of the Southern Alleghenies 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 Riggs Family 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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