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The Frank E Rath Spang & Company Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Frank E Rath Spang & Company Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$276k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.2MArts & Culture$512kHuman Services$216kEducation$153kAnimals$118kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Eye & Ear Foundation Of Pittsburgh$60,000
Johns Hopkins Medicine$50,000
University Of Pittsburgh$35,000
Shriners Hospitals For Children$25,000
The Salvation Army$25,000
Tunnel To Towers Foundation$15,300
The Carnegie$10,000
Pittsburgh Zoo$10,000
Phipps Conservatory$10,000
Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera$5,000
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust$5,000
The Pittsburgh Symphony Society$5,000
The West Penn Hospital Foundation$5,000
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation$2,500
Pittsburgh Public Theater$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Flat Water Foundation: $100 → 10%The Gathering Place: $25 → 17%Wounded Warrior Project: $800 → 11%Crisis Center North: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
OH
PA
CA
MD
KS
TN
NC
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 30 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
25

Total granted

$2.1M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+31%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • EA
    EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +187%
  • SH
    SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +225%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    6× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $65k
  • SH
    SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • U
    UPCI
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
3
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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4
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
5
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
6
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
7
Highlands Hospital

Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…

Health
8
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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11
American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…

Science & Tech
12
Butler Medical Providers

Butler medical providers, an affiliate of independence health system, exists to provide a trusted delivery of care which makes a positive impact on the lives of every individual we touch.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Parkview Volunteer Fire Department. 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

41 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. 41 of the 60 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

John Hopkins Medicine: $250,000 · OtherJohn Hopkins MedicineTHE SALVATION ARMY: $145,800 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYUPMC: $110,000 · OtherUPMCPITTSBURGH CIVIC LIGHT OPERA: $80,100 · OtherPITTSBURGH CIVIC LIGHT OPERATHE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $80,000 · OtherTHE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY SOCIETYJohns Hopkins Medicine: $75,000 · OtherJohns Hopkins MedicineUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE: $65,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTETHE CARNEGIE: $50,000 · OtherTHE WEST PENN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Other+21 more: $92,493 · Other+21 moreEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $240,000 · HealthEYE AND EAR FOUNDATIONSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $145,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBUR…+9 more: $5,895 · HealthPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $80,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURG…CARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $43,800 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE …PITTSBURGH OPERA INC: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURG…PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION: $22,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURG…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $125,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,300 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $3,100 · EducationZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $115,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,950 · AnimalsPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $115,500 · EnvironmentWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $48,350 · Human Services+4 more: $1,375 · Human Services
Other$993,393Health$625,895Arts & Culture$186,300Education$148,400Animals$117,950Environment$115,500Human Services$49,725

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $145,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $115,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $115,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $80,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $48,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $43,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH OPERA INC: $40,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION: $22,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CONNECTIONS INC: $20,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetParkview Volunteer Fire Department: $10,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,950 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS CENTER NORTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP THE JUDGMENT PROJECT: $920 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOXWALL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENN TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY AT HOLY FAMILY MANOR: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $430 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $420 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHosanna Industries Inc: $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLATWATER FOUNDATON: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $53 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $25 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.

  • Who funds EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Parkview Volunteer Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds BUTLER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS CENTER NORTH INC ↗
  • Who funds STOP THE JUDGMENT PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CHESAPEAKE INC ↗

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.

Hillman Family Founda…The Fine FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Pittsburgh Founda…The United Way of Sou…Eqt FoundationClapp G H Decd Char a…Eden Hall FoundationAlan & Barbara Ackerm…The Bruce and Barbara…Richard and Dana Gree…Dsf Charitable Founda…
Hillman Family FoundationsPA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Fine Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · Eden Hall Foundation · Alan & Barbara Ackerman Fdn-Cust · The Bruce and Barbara Wiegand Family Foundation · Richard and Dana Green Philanthropic Foundation · Dsf Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Frank E Rath Spang & Company Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank E Rath Spang & Company Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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