How much did THE FRANK VARISCHETTI FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE FRANK VARISCHETTI 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

penndubois

2019

pennduboiscancer

2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

2023

methodist churchcatholicpresbyterian churchpittsburghdubois

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

03FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $14k
$10k–50k6 grants · $168k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

BROCKWAY VOLUNTEER HOSE COMPANY$45,093
BC3 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$30,000
ANAWIM MINISTRIES$25,000
RIDGWAY YMCA$25,000
BROCKWAY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$22,882
FLYING DOVE RANCH$20,000
GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER$4,000
RIDGWAY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$2,000
DUBOIS JEFFERSON SPECIAL OLYMPICS$1,000
ST TOBIAS CATHOLIC CHURCH$500
THE BEECHWOODS PREBYTERIAN CHURCH$500
BROCKWAY CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY ALLIANCE$500
THE SUGAR HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - RELAY FOR LIFE$500
THE BROCKWAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$500

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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.2M · 31 repeat orgs$386k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$359k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%

+39%

Still filing today

16%

18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

PH
PENN HIGHLANDS HEALTHCARE
3× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +264%
BV
BROCKWAY VOLUNTEER HOSE COMPANY
3× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +85%
GA
GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER
2× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +3%

Funded once

DC
DUBOIS CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL
one grant, 2023 · $170k
BS
BROCKWAY SCHOOL COMM ED FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $30k
UC
UPMC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH
one grant, 2023 · $25k

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.

Central Pennsylvania Clinic- a Medical

Diagnosis and treatment of, and providing primary and subspecialty care for special children and adults with genetic diseases.

Health

Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

To enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area.

Health

Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care

Education

Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Provide quality, compassionate, & effective health care going beyond the expected in all we do.

Health

Shadyside Hospital of Pittsburgh

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Highmark Health

Highmark Health's mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by making healthcare more easily accessible, understandable and affordable.

Health

Children's Home of Bradford Pa

Journey health system provides organizational management, advocacy, financial and administrative shelter to its family of affiliated health care providers so that they may focus on what (continued on schedule o)

Human Services

Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Inc

We enrich lives to create healthy communities through accessible, affordable, compassionate health care.

Health

Upmc Carlisle

Upmc carlisle is a community hospital that provides compassionate and safe medical services of the highest quality.

Health

Susquehanna Physician Services

Susquehanna physician services is a subsidiary of the exempt entity upmc suquehanna. our vision is to create an integrated community health system that delivers world class care. our values are to carefully place our patients and their…

Health

Hocking Valley Community Hospital

To benefit the hocking valley community hospital

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Monroe Township Volunteer Fire Dept

To fight fires, maintain fire fighting equipment, and otherwise provide fire protection and fire prevention services.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dubois Area Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

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)

9/10

Grantees still filing

6/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,363,809Health$1,203,500Youth Development$34,358Human Services$11,000Education$1,900

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.

Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable TrustPA18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Glenn & Ruth Mengle Found Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · 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 FRANK VARISCHETTI 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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: FLYING DOVE RANCH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 204773956 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 FLYING DOVE RANCH, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Frank Varischetti 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 FRANK VARISCHETTI 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

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Frank Varischetti Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE FRANK VARISCHETTI 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

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Frank Varischetti Foundation?

More from the funding graph