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Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation at a glance

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Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation

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.

$265k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$144kInternational$85kHuman Services$49kHealth$37kFood & Nutrition$21kCrime & Legal$18kHousing & Shelter$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grove City College$80,000
Doctors without Borders$28,000
Give Well$25,000
Literacy Pittsburgh$10,000
Khan Academy$10,000
Sojourner House$4,000
Habitat for Humanity$4,000
Second Heart Homes$4,000
The Bail Project$4,000
Life's Work of Western PA$4,000
Al's Bike Drive$4,000
Innocence Project$4,000
National Center for MissingExploited Children$4,000
Vitamin Angels$4,000
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Wounded Warrior Project: $4k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $2k → 14%American Red Cross: $2k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%Innocence Project: $4k → 17%Inclusion Revolution: $4k → 9%Wounded Warrieor Project: $750 → 14%Innocence Project: $2k → 17%Wounded Warrieor Project: $500 → 14%Inclusion Revolution: $1k → 9%Inclusion Revolution: $1k → 9%Inclusion Revolution: $1k → 9%Safe Move for Seniors: $4k → 11%Inclusion Revolution: $500 → 9%Safe Move for Seniors: $2k → 11%Mission of Mercy: $4k → 11%Mission of Mercy: $2k → 11%Al's Bike Drive: $4k → 11%Al's Bike Drive: $1k → 11%Al's Bike Drive: $1k → 11%Al's Bike Drive: $1k → 11%Al's Bike Drive: $500 → 11%Al's Bike Drive: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
CA
VA
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Scott and Donna Dysert Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$386k · 32 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
2

Total granted

$386k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+34%

Still filing today

72%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GC
    GROVE CITY COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $118k · revenue +48%
  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +79%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • HC
    Hillman Cancer Center
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • HA
    HAMPTON ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +34%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
3
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
8
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
9
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
12
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Al's Bike Drive Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
15/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROVE CITY COLLEGE: $117,560 · EducationGROVE CITY COLLEGEKHAN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCLITERACY PITTSBURGH: $10,000 · EducationLITERACY PITTSBURGHLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $5,000 · EducationDisabled American Veterans: $9,750 · OtherDisabled American VeteransNorth Country Meals on Wheels: $9,000 · OtherNorth Country Meals on WheelsUPMC Hillman Cancer Center: $8,500 · OtherUPMC Hillman Cancer CenterPittsburgh Children's Hospital Foundation: $7,000 · OtherPittsburgh Children's Hospita…All Faiths Food Bank Sarasota: $6,000 · OtherAll Faiths Food Bank SarasotaIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $6,000 · OtherLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYL…National Center for MissingExploited Children: $6,000 · OtherNational Center for MissingEx…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 · OtherSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $6,000 · OtherSOJOURNER HOUSE INCVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $6,000 · OtherVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INCTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE BAIL PROJECT INCALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FO…CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $6,000 · OtherCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELI…SECOND HEART HOMES INC: $4,000 · Other+5 more: $10,750 · Other+5 moreTHE CLEAR FUND: $55,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUND+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $9,250 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARR…AL'S BIKE DRIVE INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesAL'S BIKE DR…INCLUSION REVOLUTION INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesINCLUSION RE…SAFE MOVES FOR SENIORS: $6,000 · Human ServicesSAFE MOVES F…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENC…MISSION OF MERCY INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OF M…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $9,750 · Public BenefitNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $6,000 · Public BenefitHAMPTON ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $1,000 · Public BenefitThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc: $8,500 · Community Improvement
Education$142,560Other$108,000Philanthropy$56,000Human Services$45,750International$36,000Public Benefit$16,750Community Improvement$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $117,560 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $9,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $9,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAL'S BIKE DRIVE INC: $8,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetINCLUSION REVOLUTION INC: $7,500 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE MOVES FOR SENIORS: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HEART HOMES INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCool Effect Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…William G and Marie S…Seidman Family Founda…Gulf Coast Community …The Community Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Seidman Family Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scott and Donna Dysert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home