· Private foundation
The Frank Varischetti Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROCKWAY VOLUNTEER HOSE COMPANY | $45,093 |
| BC3 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ANAWIM MINISTRIES | $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 |
| MOORHEAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - RELAY FOR LIFE | $500 |
| ST TOBIAS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $500 |
| BROCKWAY CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY ALLIANCE | $500 |
| MUNDERF UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $500 |
| THE BEECHWOODS PREBYTERIAN CHURCH | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PHPenn Highlands Healthcare Inc3× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +562%
- BEBC3 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $224k
- UOUNIVERSTIY OF PITTSBURGH2× · 2022–2023 · $200k
Funded once
- DCDUBOIS CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $170k
- BSBROCKWAY SCHOOL COMM ED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k
- UCUPMC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGHone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services
Fire, rescue and ems services
To provide you with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. our vision is to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality service and outcomes. value…
Diagnosis and treatment of, and providing primary and subspecialty care for special children and adults with genetic diseases.
To provide township fire protection.
Protecting hopewell from fires.
Community ambulance service serving residents in the greater bloomsburg, pennsylvania area
The protection, preservation of life and property during emergencies as may occur in the Borough of Clearfield and surrounding communities.
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…
To provide the patient with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. it's the vision of the system to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality, service…
The Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department provides both fire and ambulance response services in the area of Tidioute, Pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Care for Kids and the most unlike its peers is Mengle Memorial Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds Brockway Volunteer Hose Company ↗
- Who funds FLYING DOVE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DUBOIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds DUBOIS AREA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WE CARE FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds Mengle Memorial Library ↗
- Who funds BROCKWAY OLD FASHIONED 4TH OF JULY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
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 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.