· Private foundation
Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $391k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $855k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KEYSTONE SMILES COMMUNITY LEARNING | $195,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES OF VENANGO COUNTY | $147,000 |
| YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC | $115,000 |
| CASA OF VENANGO COUNTY INC | $101,500 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $71,912 |
| YMCA OF FRANKLINGROVE CITY | $64,676 |
| MUSTARD SEED MISSINS OF VENANGO COUNTY | $60,000 |
| GOOD HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF OIL CITY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC | $45,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES & CHILDREN'S AID | $42,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| GRACE LEARNING CENTER INC | $35,000 |
| BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $34,150 |
| OIL REGION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
47 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- COCASA OF VENANGO COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $891k · revenue +11% · 85% of their budget
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF VENANGO COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $882k · revenue +46%
- KSKEYSTONE SMILES COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $825k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- FSFAMILY SERVICE & CHILDRENS AIDone grant, 2018 · $128k
- OCOIL CITY PUBLIC WORKSone grant, 2022 · $70k
- GHGOOD HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $60k
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.
Provide community orienated services
The venango area chamber of commerce builds, serves and promotes regional business. the chamber strives to keep programs current and responsive to the demands of venango's current business climate, acting as a bridge that links businesses,…
Provide youth ages 5-17 with character development, leadership skills, education, career guidance, training for healthy habits, and life skills development to help them reach their full potential as caring, productive, responsible citizens.
To promote the study of the history of venango county and its general area and to develop an interest in the study of venango county and its citizens.
The vvcdo identifies, facilitates, and implements regional programs and projects that ensure sustainable communities through regional engagement
Our purpose is to serve families by providing quality care and education for children six weeks of age through pre-kindergarten in a non-profit child development center and preschool.
Providing educational and recreational programs for children.
To provide assistance to low income families through various state and federal grants.
Penn-york opportunities, inc. is a not for profit organization that creates opportunities for all people regardless of their abilities by focusing on community involvement, personal achievement, lifelong learning, and employment.
The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…
Vecf is the non-partisan steward of virginia's promise for early childhood success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Youth House Committee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oil Region Ballet 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 36 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 76 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 CASA OF VENANGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES OF VENANGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SMILES COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Alternatives INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION ↗
- Who funds ABC LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED MISSIONS OF VENANGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE SCENIC RIVERS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VENANGO TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Venango County Association for the Blind ↗
- Who funds Young Womens Christian Association of Oil City ↗
- Who funds CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION INSTITUTE FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds GLADE RUN ↗
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: Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw · Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial · Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Edith C Justus Tuw · Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable Trust · Eileen J Luce Charitable Trust · Upmc Group · Alfred H Lander and Janet L Lander Family · Northwest Institute of Research
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 Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust 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.