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Standard Charitable Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k14 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SW PA | $25,000 |
| MON VALLEY INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| BLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORP | $10,000 |
| HEARTH | $10,000 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHENY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION OF WESTERN MD | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LAUREL REGION | $10,000 |
| WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
| STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $8,100 |
| POWERLINK | $6,000 |
| OPERATION WARM | $5,160 |
| CASA OF WESTMORELAND INC | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WCWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +24%
- SFSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP4× · 2018–2021 · $31k · revenue +272%
- RIREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH4× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- AADELPHOIone grant, 2019 · $12k
- RFREGIONAL FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTI ASSOCIATION OF LAUREL HIGHLANDSone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -3%
- UMUNION MISSIONone grant, 2019 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Library is a center for informational resources and services, promoting literacy and lifelong learning. The Library has achieved the status of Family Place Library, a national initiative to encourage the beginning stages of literacy in…
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
The mission of the western allegheny community library is to provide a safe, inclusive and accessible community-centered library that is free to the public and empowers its residents personal, educational and professional growth through…
To recruit and train community members to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.
Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community
Operation of a public library which provides books, videos, periodicals and other eductional materials for area residents to use an borrow.
The mission of the Sewickley Public Library is to provide lifelong learning oppurtunities to the children and adults of the greater Quaker Valley Community.
A community-centered and community empowered organization dedicated to providing opportunities for sustainable employment, access to quality education, and a healthy environment and family life.
The mission of the washington county free library system is to continually improve our service to the public by:* providing the public with free access to library materials in a variety of formats* promoting community enrichment, economic…
C.C. Mellor Memorial Library provides library services to the municipalities of Braddock Hills, Churchill, Edgewood, Forest Hills and Wilkins Township. Our mission is to educate, entertain, and enlighten.
The principal purpose of the organization is to create a workforce preparation and employment system designed to meet the needs of the areas businesses and job seekers
Public lending library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Westmoreland County Chamber of Commmerce Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
42 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. 42 of the 73 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MON VALLEY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment G ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WESTMORELAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LAUREL REGION ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACKBURN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING THE SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds VETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND HUMAN OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds POWERLINK ↗
- Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTI ASSOCIATION OF LAUREL HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND SALEM CHILDREN'S TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVA ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATIO ↗
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.
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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 Standard Charitable Foundation 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.
- Casa of Western Maryland Inc — 51% of income from government
- Evergreen Heritage Center Foundatio — 6% of income from government
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.
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