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The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2025
37
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,000
Organizations funded a year
37 to 41
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2025still arriving40$101k15%
FY202437$99k14%
FY202341$103k20%
FY202240$110k5%
FY202139$99k13%
FY202037$98k8%
FY201939$105k10%
FY201837$106k11%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$202kEducation$157kReligion$124kArts & Culture$118kAnimals$48kRecreation & Sports$48kFood & Nutrition$43kEnvironment$38kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Plum Borough Community Library$49,00092%
Rachel Carson Homestead Assocation Inc$37,0009n/a
Community Library of Allegheny Valley$31,00091%
Valley Points Family Young Men's Christian Association$27,00030%
Alle-Kiski Valley Senior Citizens Center Inc$24,00061%
A Little Bit of Snuggles Dog Rescue Inc$18,0007n/a
Harmarville Cemetery Association$13,5006n/a
Unity Volunteer Fire Department$13,00091%
Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc$12,00090%
Dillard University$10,00010%
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Plum Borough Community Library$49,00092%
Rachel Carson Homestead Assocation Inc$37,0009n/a
Community Library of Allegheny Valley$31,00091%
Valley Points Family Young Men's Christian Association$27,00030%
Alle-Kiski Valley Senior Citizens Center Inc$24,00061%
A Little Bit of Snuggles Dog Rescue Inc$18,0007n/a
Harmarville Cemetery Association$13,5006n/a
Unity Volunteer Fire Department$13,00091%
Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc$12,00090%
Dillard University$10,00010%
Geneva College$8,00080%
Spark Community Center Inc$4,50091%
Headrest Inc$4,00080%
Veterans Home Assn VFW Post 92$3,50070%
Lower Burrell Meals on Wheels$3,00031%
Presbyterian Seniorcare Foundation$2,50010%
Upper Valley Haven$1,50030%
Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc$1,50030%
Burrell Baseball Association$1,05031%
North Hills Community Outreach Inc$50010%
Tri-City Life Center Inc$50010%
Montshire Museum of Science Inc$50010%
Skyview Radio Society$2501n/a
The Family Place Inc$25010%
Howe Library Corporation$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($651k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlum Borough Community Library: $49,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetCommunity Library of Allegheny Valley: $31,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetValley Points Family Young Men's Christian Association: $27,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAlle-Kiski Valley Senior Citizens Center Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUnity Volunteer Fire Department: $13,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetWestmoreland County Food Bank Inc: $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDillard University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeneva College: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSpark Community Center Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetHeadrest Inc: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Home Assn VFW Post 92: $3,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLower Burrell Meals on Wheels: $3,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPresbyterian Seniorcare Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Valley Haven: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGood Neighbor Health Clinic Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBurrell Baseball Association: $1,050 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Hills Community Outreach Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTri-City Life Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontshire Museum of Science Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHowe Library Corporation: $250 over 1y, 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 21.

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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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Couch Family Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · John M Shapiro Charitable Trust · The Help for People Foundation · Schon Family Foundation · Frank and Brinna Sands Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America 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.

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About The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation

How much does The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation give?
The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $100,655 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (17%), Religion (13%).
Who are The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Plum Borough Community Library ($49k), Rachel Carson Homestead Assocation Inc ($37k), Community Library of Allegheny Valley ($31k).
Does The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Emily Landecker Foundation Inc, The Couch Family Foundation.
Where is The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation based?
The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable 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 73 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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