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Sharp Emma O-Parker Foundation-Tr

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.

$905k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Religion$600kEducation$450kArts & Culture$383kAnimals$375kYouth Development$280kHealth$200kPhilanthropy$135kHousing & Shelter$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST$250,000
WESLEYAN SCHOOL$250,000
MON VALLEY BOYS ACADEMY$150,000
WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
CREATING PITTSBURGH TOMORROW$25,000
LAUREN DUNNE ASTLEY MEMORIAL FUND$20,000
COASTAL GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
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 (FY19–21, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.

area typical 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $50k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $30k → 8%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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 14 repeat orgs$460k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$2.3M
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
-20%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • WS
    WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +4%
  • WM
    WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    5× · 2019–2025 · $270k · revenue +77%
  • PS
    PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $93k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GATHERING PLACE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -20%
  • CJ
    CR JRS CHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -4%
  • UC
    UPMC CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k

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
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
2
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…

3
Carnegie Institute

To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.

Arts & Culture
4
University of Pittsburgh

The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
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
7
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

The historical society of western pennsylvania is an educational institution that engages and inspires a large and inclusive audience with links to the past, understanding in the present, and guidance for the future by preserving regional…

Arts & Culture
10
Riverlife

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

Environment
11
Chamber Music Pittsburgh

To present world class chamber music ensembles and soloists, promising emerging artists, and innovative programs; and to foster an appreciation for chamber music in the pittsburgh community by offering educational programs and experiences.

Arts & Culture
12
Chatham University

Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE U — $300,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE USHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST — $300,000 · OtherSHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUSTTHE GATHERING PLACE YOUTH MINISTRY — $235,000 · OtherTHE GATHERING PLACE YOUTH MINISTRYSHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $150,000 · OtherSHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHPARKER FOUNDATION DISTRIBUTION — $135,000 · OtherPARKER FOUNDATION DISTRIBUTIONHAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INC — $125,000 · OtherHAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INCCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH — $100,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH+7 more — $205,000 · Other+7 moreWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC — $300,000 · EducationWESLEYAN SCHOOL INCMON VALLEY BOYS ACADEMY DBA THE TOM JOHN — $150,000 · EducationMON VALLEY BOYS ACAD…CR JRS CHIP — $25,000 · EducationLAUREN DUNNE ASTLEY MEMORIAL FUND — $20,000 · EducationWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $270,000 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELAND MU…PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $92,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMP…+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $75,000 · AnimalsPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $70,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,550,000Education$495,000Arts & Culture$372,500Health$100,000Human Services$80,000Animals$75,000Recreation & Sports$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWESLEYAN SCHOOL INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $270,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMON VALLEY BOYS ACADEMY DBA THE TOM JOHN — $150,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetHAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INC — $125,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $92,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCR JRS CHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLAUREN DUNNE ASTLEY MEMORIAL FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCoastal Georgia Historical Society — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 FoundationPA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Sharp Emma O-Parker Foundation-Tr 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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