· Private foundation
Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GOOD HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF OIL CITY | $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 CITY JUNIOR BASEBALL | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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