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S Kent Rockwell Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$13MEnvironment$1.3MAnimals$807kRecreation & Sports$540kYouth Development$351kHealth$297kHuman Services$245kPhilanthropy$226kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.7M
$60,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY$4,000,000
ALLEGHENY RIVERTRAIL PARK$375,000
KISKIMINETAS SPRING SCHOOL$300,000
AMERICAN RIVERS$100,000
RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY$60,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSRVTN PARTNERSHIP$50,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$25,000
NATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION$15,000
BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST$10,000
BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE LILY HOUSE: $5k → 8%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5k → 17%PIVOT A TURNING POINT FOR YOUTH: $5k → 16%SAFESPACE INC: $5k → 11%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAY: $5k → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5k → 17%FISH FOR CHANGE: $10k → 12%FISH FOR CHANGE: $5k → 12%FISH FOR CHANGE: $5k → 12%ALLE-KISKI AREA HOPE CENTER INC: $5k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $105k → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $5k → 11%FOX FAMILIES CARE: $5k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $5k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER: $5k → 11%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH INC: $5k → 11%CRISIS CENTER NORTH: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 43 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
74

Total granted

$15M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+35%

Still filing today

79%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthAnimalsArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • TK
    THE KISKI SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +27%
  • AMERICAN RIVERS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $325k · revenue +177%
  • RG
    RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • MR
    MONTOUR RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -35%
  • MH
    MARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +97%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
2
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
3
Riverlife

Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.

Environment
4
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
5
Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.

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6
The Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc

To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.

Environment
7
Venture Outdoors Inc

We remove barriers and create access to outdoor experiences. we are a pittsburgh-based non-profit connecting people to the benefits of getting outdoors. since 2001, our team of outdoor educators and volunteer trip leaders have guided…

Environment
8
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
9
Great Allegheny Passage Conservancy

Founded in 1995 to coordinate the completion of the great allegheny passage, a 150-mile non-motorized path connecting pittsburgh and cumberland, maryland, the great allegheny passage conservancy promotes the great allegheny passage and…

Environment
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
The Potomac Conservancy Inc

Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.

Environment
12
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Minority Outdoor Alliance. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%15%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr17%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr15%9%35–55yr17%80%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/84
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,078

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.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
59/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY — $12,240,000 · OtherROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY+73 more — $1,836,925 · Other+73 moreAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $325,000 · EnvironmentRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY — $295,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc — $215,000 · EnvironmentMONTOUR RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · EnvironmentBACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS — $71,000 · EnvironmentWILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $50,000 · EnvironmentHOLLOW OAK LAND TRUST INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentALLEGHENY LAND TRUST — $50,000 · Environment+4 more — $81,750 · EnvironmentTHE KISKI SCHOOL — $424,500 · EducationSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC — $50,000 · EducationPROTOTYPE PGH INC — $50,000 · EducationCHATHAM UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationMinority Outdoor Alliance — $30,000 · EducationBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $156,000 · AnimalsTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $150,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC — $92,470 · AnimalsAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc — $85,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · AnimalsKEEP FISH WET INC — $32,800 · Animals+3 more — $27,484 · AnimalsAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc — $375,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE KEROSENE LAMP FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $155,000 · Community ImprovementBRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION — $25,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $11,500 · Community ImprovementSecond Harvest — $110,000 · Human ServicesFish For Change — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human Services+10 more — $50,000 · Human Services
Other$14,076,925Environment$1,237,750Education$604,500Animals$583,754Recreation & Sports$405,000Community Improvement$221,500Human Services$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY — $12,240,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE KISKI SCHOOL — $424,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc — $375,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $325,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY — $295,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $215,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $156,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $155,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetINDIFLY INCORPORATED — $130,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetSecond Harvest — $110,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC — $92,470 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOasis Recovery Center of Western PA — $78,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS — $71,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $53,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $50,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC — $50,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetHOLLOW OAK LAND TRUST INC — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetALLEGHENY LAND TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYellow Dog Community and Conservation Foundation — $35,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetKEEP FISH WET INC — $32,800 over 3y, 27% of budgetBRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPREVENTION POINT PITTSBURGH — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMinority Outdoor Alliance — $30,000 over 4y, 91% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $26,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATION — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE KEROSENE LAMP FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH EMERGENCY MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetFish For Change — $20,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBAREBONES PRODUCTIONS INC — $14,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAssemble Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADDOCK REDUX — $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $9,984 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEco Defense Group — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Richard King Mellon F…The Grable FoundationThe Heinz EndowmentsMassey Charitable Tru…Opportunity FoundationEqt FoundationMcElhattan FoundationThe Burke FoundationThe Burke Family Foun…Allegheny Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA51.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Massey Charitable Trust · Opportunity Foundation · Eqt Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · Allegheny 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 S Kent Rockwell Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Lily House Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 1% of income from government
  • Lighthouse Artcenter Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to S Kent Rockwell Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to S Kent Rockwell Foundation Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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