Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $259k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 76% of the organizations Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $259k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $235k | 76% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $258k | 78% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $254k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $218k | 93% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $241k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $203k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $215k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Riverlife | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation | $38,482 | 2 | 0% |
| Kidsvoice | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh | $35,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Carnegie Institute | $32,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kitchen of Grace Inc | $28,740 | 1 | 24% |
| Propel Charter School-McKeesport | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Maya Organization | $27,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($486k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · The Buhl Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust
- How much does Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust give?
- Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust reported 18 grants totaling $258,593 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Education (17%), Health (8%).
- Who are Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Pittsburgh ($60k), Riverlife ($50k), Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation ($38k).
- Does Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The Grable Foundation.
- Where is Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust based?
- Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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