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The Courtney Babcock Borntraeger Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
- $250k+2 grants · $660k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $359,287 |
| ASPINWALL RIVERFRONT PARK INC | $300,623 |
| BOCA GRANDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,675 |
| FOX CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| BOCA GRANDE WOMANS CLUB INC | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $5,000 |
| FOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k 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
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +70%
- FLFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION4× · 2020–2023 · $73k · revenue +48%
- SCSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC3× · 2021–2023 · $51k · revenue +235%
Funded once
- LULighthouse United Medthodist Church of Boca Grandeone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CCCRISIS CENTER NORTH INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -25%
- GSGROUNDED STRATEGIESone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -47%
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.
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…
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…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
Bike pittsburgh is transforming our streets to make biking and walking commonplace for all pittsburghers in order to improve our quality of life and reduce the harmful effects of car dependence in our communities.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 35 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 THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH YOUTH LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds STEEL CITY SQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CR JRS CHIP ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NINE MILE RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL SUPPORTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds FOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROUNDED STRATEGIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds A BETTER SHOT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Babcock Charitable Trust · Carbonari Family Foundation · The Shore Lane Family Foundation Inc · Church Brew Works 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 The Courtney Babcock Borntraeger 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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