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The Charles E Kaufman Foundation

To promote and support fundamental scientific research activities in chemistry, biology, and physics at pennsylvania educational institutions and carry out the purposes of the pittsburgh foundation.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$600k
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$8.8MScience & Tech$6.2M
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$450,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$600,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$600,000
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$450,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$100,000
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE$100,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150k → 6%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $100k → 8%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $150k → 9%CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $300k → 10%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $300k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $750k → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $150k → 11%WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $100k → 12%ALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $100k → 14%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $600k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 22%CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $100k → 10%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $600k → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $150k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $450k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 22%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $600k → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $450k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $889k → 22%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $600k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $450k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $750k → 22%SWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $300k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $450k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $450k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $600k → 22%SWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $150k → 10%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $450k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $300k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $450k → 22%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $450k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300k → 22%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $450k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300k → 22%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $450k → 11%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $150k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $300k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150k → 22%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $150k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES IN PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $150k → 11%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $150k → 11%CHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $100k → 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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.9M · 7 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$9.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+8%

Still filing today

86%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +15%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2017–2022 · $2.7M · revenue +44%
  • SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2021 · $450k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +66%
  • WC
    WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +18%

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
Albright College

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

Education
2
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
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
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
7
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
8
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
9
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
10
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
11
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
12
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh University and the most unlike its peers is Dickinson College. 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

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,439,149 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $2,700,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $450,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $400,000 · EducationBucknell University — $400,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $300,000 · Education+7 more — $899,814 · Education+7 morePENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $3,000,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYCarnegie Mellon University — $2,850,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon University+2 more — $250,000 · Other
Education$8,888,963Other$6,100,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,439,149 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $2,850,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $2,700,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBucknell University — $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $149,814 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES IN PHILADELPHIA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE — $100,000 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Charles E Kaufman 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 The Charles E Kaufman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Charles E Kaufman Foundation 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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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