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The Frank Varischetti Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$181k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
33
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,093
Organizations funded a year
6 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$11M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Frank Varischetti Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$181k14%
FY202333$968k67%
FY202210$144k40%
FY20218$89k25%
FY20206$91k17%
FY201915$525k33%
FY201813$506k46%
FY201712$109kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.2MEducation$825kPublic Safety & Disaster$142kPublic Benefit$100kYouth Development$70kHuman Services$56kReligion$37kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc$1,191,00032%
Brockway Volunteer Hose Company$106,60339%
City of Dubois$100,0004n/a
Flying Dove Ranch Inc$31,858229%
Guardian Angel Center Inc$20,60037%
Young People Who Care Inc$12,0002n/a
Free Medical Clinic of Dubois Inc$7,50022%
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh$5,00010%
Dubois Area Food Pantry Inc$4,50012%
We Care for Kids$2,5001n/a
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All grantees of The Frank Varischetti Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc$1,191,00032%
Brockway Volunteer Hose Company$106,60339%
City of Dubois$100,0004n/a
Flying Dove Ranch Inc$31,858229%
Guardian Angel Center Inc$20,60037%
Young People Who Care Inc$12,0002n/a
Free Medical Clinic of Dubois Inc$7,50022%
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh$5,00010%
Dubois Area Food Pantry Inc$4,50012%
We Care for Kids$2,5001n/a
Mengle Memorial Library$1,90011%
Brockway Old Fashioned 4th of July Inc$1,60021%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,50030%
The Lighthouse Community Church$1,0002n/a

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Frank Varischetti Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPenn Highlands Healthcare Inc: $1,191,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBrockway Volunteer Hose Company: $106,603 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetFlying Dove Ranch Inc: $31,858 over 2y, 29% of budgetGuardian Angel Center Inc: $20,600 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetFree Medical Clinic of Dubois Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetThe Children's Institute of Pittsburgh: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDubois Area Food Pantry Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMengle Memorial Library: $1,900 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBrockway Old Fashioned 4th of July Inc: $1,600 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Glenn & Ruth Mengle Foundation TrustPA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Glenn & Ruth Mengle Foundation Trust · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Dubois Area United Way · Gray Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Frank Varischetti Foundation

How much does The Frank Varischetti Foundation give?
The Frank Varischetti Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $181,475 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Frank Varischetti Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (47%), Education (32%), Public Safety & Disaster (5%).
Who are The Frank Varischetti Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc ($1.2M), Brockway Volunteer Hose Company ($107k), City of Dubois ($100k).
Does The Frank Varischetti Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Frank Varischetti Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Frank Varischetti Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Glenn & Ruth Mengle Foundation Trust, Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust, Dubois Area United Way.
Where is The Frank Varischetti Foundation based?
The Frank Varischetti Foundation is based in PA.

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 55 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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