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The Courtney Babcock Borntraeger Foundation at a glance

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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.

$760k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$359k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$502kRecreation & Sports$355kReligion$218kAnimals$129kYouth Development$74kArts & Culture$73kHousing & Shelter$41kEnvironment$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
  • $250k+2 grants · $660k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Canine Companions for Independence: $50k → 5%Canine Companions for Independence: $55k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE - NORTH CENTRAL: $5k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE - NORTH CENTRAL: $5k → 15%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 11%Friends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc: $1k → 11%CRISIS CENTER NORTH INCORPORATION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 22 repeat orgs$426k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$1.0M
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+3%

Still filing today

82%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +70%
  • FL
    FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $73k · revenue +48%
  • SC
    STEEL CITY SQUASH INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $51k · revenue +235%

Funded once

  • LU
    Lighthouse United Medthodist Church of Boca Grande
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • CC
    CRISIS CENTER NORTH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -25%
  • GS
    GROUNDED STRATEGIES
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -47%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment
3
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
4
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
5
Bike Pittsburgh Inc

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.

Public Benefit
6
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

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…

Environment
7
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
8
Naples Zoo Inc

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…

Animals
9
Susquehanna Heritage Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
10
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
11
Wilson College

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

Education
12
United States Naval Institute

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $359,287 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMYSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $51,000 · EducationSTEEL CITY SQUASH INCSTONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL: $45,800 · EducationSTONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOLGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationGROVE CITY COLLEGECOMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · EducationCR JRS CHIP: $19,100 · Education+2 more: $6,000 · EducationAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $301,623 · Recreation & SportsAspinwall Riverfront Pa…+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsFOX CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $122,000 · OtherFOX CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN…BOCA GRANDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $75,675 · OtherBOCA GRANDE UNITED METH…Lighthouse United Medthodist Church of Boca Grande: $20,000 · OtherLighthouse United Medth…BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $19,000 · OtherBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLU…+15 more: $72,100 · Other+15 moreCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COM…FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesCRISIS CENTER NORTH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION: $73,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH YOUTH LEADERSHIP: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$536,187Recreation & Sports$304,123Other$308,775Human Services$132,000Arts & Culture$73,000Youth Development$70,000Housing & Shelter$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $359,287 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $301,623 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION: $73,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH YOUTH LEADERSHIP: $70,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $51,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSTONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL: $45,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCR JRS CHIP: $19,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL SUPPORTING FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNINE MILE RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS CENTER NORTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROUNDED STRATEGIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER SHOT FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Protectors of Allegheny Valley: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Richard King Mellon F…Hillman Family Founda…The Grable FoundationGulf Coast Community …The Burke Family Foun…The Burke FoundationThe United Way of Sou…Babcock Charitable Tr…Carbonari Family Foun…The Shore Lane Family…Church Brew Works Fou…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA30.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Courtney Babcock Borntraeger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Courtney Babcock Borntraeger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Courtney Babcock Borntraeger Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Courtney Babcock Borntraeger 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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