How much did THE EBERLY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE EBERLY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

preservationfoodteacher

2019

teacher

2020

teacher

2021

—

2022

scholarships

2023

pittsburgh

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $29k
$10k–50k6 grants · $150k
$50k–250k2 grants · $150k

$7,341

Median grant

States reached

$7.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF LAW$100,000
CITY MISSION - LIVING STONES$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MDIL EXPANSION$46,667
FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION$28,480
PENN STATE - FAYETTE$25,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - SSME$15,000
COMMUNITY FDN OF FAYETTE COUNTY PA$10,000
UNIONTOWN AREA HIGH SCHOOL$7,341
CHRISTIAN LAYMANS CORPS$6,920
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION$5,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$2,900
ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA$2,500
HISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK$1,500
DARE EDUCATION FDN$1,250

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.9M · 28 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+50%

Still filing today

50%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

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

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
5× · 2018–2023 · $686k · revenue +23%
CM
CITY MISSION-LIVING STONES
6× · 2018–2024 · $158k · revenue +132%
CM
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
7× · 2018–2024 · $143k · revenue +23%

Funded once

FF
FOUNDATION FOR FREE
one grant, 2018 · $43k
EC
ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +1%
WE
WCCC EDUCATIONAL FDN INC
one grant, 2018 · $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.

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The provision of education, research, and charitable patient care services.

Education

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and…

Youth Development

Wilson College

Wilson college is a private, liberal arts institution committed to access and affordability in higher education. degrees are offered in 34 undergraduate majors with 40 minors as well as 10 graduate-level programs of study.

Education

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

As the first art museum and school in the us, pafa celebrates the transformative power of art and art-making.

Education

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

Improve quality of life by enhancing pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports

Susquehanna University

Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.

Education

University of Lynchburg

The University of Lynchburg, established in 1903, is a comprehensive private university in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. With over 100 undergraduate majors, minors, and certificate programs, 15 master's programs, and…

Education

William Peace University

Prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow.

Education

Westminster College

Promote education, the development of skills, knowledge, and personal qualities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Point Park University. 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 45 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/29

the rest of the field

6,104/78,133

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.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/29

Grantees still filing

27/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,214,320Education$760,684Human Services$177,170Youth Development$136,760Philanthropy$51,000Arts & Culture$34,765Health$5,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of FayettePA18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Fayette · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE EBERLY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAYETTE COUNTY ASSN FOR THE BLIND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 250974321 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAYETTE COUNTY ASSN FOR THE BLIND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Eberly Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Eberly Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE EBERLY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Eberly Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE EBERLY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Eberly Foundation?

More from the funding graph