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Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh

The SPECTROSCOPY SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH is organizaed to promote the increase in knowledge of spectroscopy, to promote the dissemination of such knowledge, and to promote the cooperation of workers in the field of spectroscopy.

$206k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$1.1MScience & Tech$171kArts & Culture$75kEmployment$15kInternational$15kCrime & Legal$10kYouth Development$7kEnvironment$5k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $93,878 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $205,902 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,024 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$9,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN UNIVERSITY$40,000
MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST JOSEPH$9,500
CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER$9,500
CHATHAM UNIVERSITY$9,490
LANDMARK COLLEGE$8,190
FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY$7,198
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%SAINT CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $10k → 9%FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-GREENSBURG: $15k → 10%ALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $10k → 11%CEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $10k → 11%HARRISBURG UNIV OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 12%WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%ST FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%DREXEL UNIVERSITY CO JEREMIAH SCEPANIAK: $40k → 22%PAUL SMITH'S COLLEGE: $10k → 16%SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%THE CITADEL: $10k → 12%WOLFORD COLLEGE: $10k → 15%DORDT COLLEGE: $10k → 8%MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE: $10k → 13%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $30k → 15%BETHEL COLLEGE: $10k → 9%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $10k → 7%UNIVERSTIY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $10k → 11%LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%OHIO UNIVERSITY DEPT OF CHEMISTRY: $40k → 22%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%ALMHURST COLLEGE: $10k → 7%NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%KNOX COLLEGE: $10k → 15%MONMOUTH COLLEGE: $10k → 16%FELICIAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%LANDMARK COLLEGE: $10k → 11%CASTLETON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $10k → 13%CENTRE COLLEGE: $10k → 15%BIDWELL TRAINING CENTER: $15k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER: $18k → 11%CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER: $13k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PA: $15k → 11%SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS OF PITTSBURGH: $58k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $35k → 11%HAMPTON TOWSHIP SCHOOL DISTICT: $15k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$514k · 20 repeat orgs$843k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
75

Total granted

$514k
$826k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureScience & TechInternationalYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +57%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +44%
  • WC
    WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SOCIETY FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $58k · revenue +29%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +39%
  • OU
    Ohio University
    one grant, 2019 · $40k

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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Wilson College

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

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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5
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…

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Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
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California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
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Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
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St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
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Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskingum University and the most unlike its peers is The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr15%9%35–55yr17%82%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%8%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr15%14%35–55yr17%73%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/97
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,065

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.

04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
66/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $89,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHWESTMINSTER COLLEGE — $44,501 · EducationWESTMINSTER COLLEGECASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY+54 more — $533,355 · Education+54 moreTHE SOCIETY FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS OF PITTSBURGH — $58,478 · OtherTHE SOCIETY FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMIST…Ohio University — $40,000 · OtherOhio UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $30,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AG…AUBURN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYLANDMARK COLLEGE INC — $18,190 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $17,400 · OtherPITTSBURGH SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · OtherBIDWELL TRAINING CENTER INC — $15,000 · OtherHAMPTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT — $15,000 · Other+22 more — $160,214 · Other+22 moreCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $90,500 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE I…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S…BROWN UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · Community ImprovementSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 · Science & TechJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $15,000 · InternationalGIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCommunitopia — $5,000 · Environment
Education$746,856Other$429,282Arts & Culture$130,500Community Improvement$40,000Science & Tech$25,000International$15,000Youth Development$5,000Environment$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $90,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $89,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS OF PITTSBURGH — $58,478 over 1y, 12% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE — $44,501 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY — $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY — $21,810 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH — $19,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARK COLLEGE INC — $18,190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY — $15,490 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetBIDWELL TRAINING CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHIEL COLLEGE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRISBURG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR CREST COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELICIAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTROSCOPY SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELMHURST UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBRIGHT COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Council of Independen…Ibm International Fou…National Collegiate A…The Society for Analy…Folds of Honor Founda…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Grable FoundationErnst & Young Foundat…AbbVie FoundationLilly Endowment Inc
Council of Independent CollegesDC32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Council of Independent Colleges · Ibm International Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Ernst & Young Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc

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 Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Norwich University — 14% of income from government
  • Landmark College Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 1% of income from government
  • University of Saint Joseph — 1% of income from government
  • Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh?

Find your warmest path to Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 98 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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