· Private foundation
The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of THE MURIEL E AND EDWARD C WACHTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY POINTS FAMILY YMCA | $9,000 |
| PEOPLE'S LIBRARY OF NEW KENSINGTON & LOWER BURRELL | $9,000 |
| OAKMONT CARNEGIE LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| PLUM COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| BRAEBURN COMMUNITY CHURCH | $6,000 |
| RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY NEW KENSINGTON CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| BURTNER HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTORS ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY LIBRARY OF ALLEGHENY VALLEY | $4,000 |
| HARMARVILLE CEMETERY ASSOC - HENDERSON CEMETERY | $4,000 |
| FUN & FREEDOM YOUTH SPORTS | $4,000 |
| ALLEGHENY KISKI VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| ALLEGHENY KISKI VALLEY SENIOR CENTER | $4,000 |
| PLUM CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- PBPLUM BOROUGH COMMUNITY LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +19%
- CLCommunity Library of Allegheny Valley9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +27%
- AVALLE-KISKI VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- DUDILLARD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -75%
- AVAILE-KISKI VALLEY CENTER FOR ACTIVE ADULTSone grant, 2024 · $4k
- PSPresbyterian Seniorcare Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +29%
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.
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community
Public lending library
Bridgeville Public Library operates as a public library that provides books, videos, periodicals and other educational materials for area residents to use and borrow.
Public lending library
Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania
Operation of a public library which provides books, videos, periodicals and other eductional materials for area residents to use an borrow.
UVCHS in a not for profit organization that provides medical dental behavioral heath and pharmacy services. Our goal is to make quality care available to everyone regardless of demographic or economic status. We accept all major insurances…
Bethel Park Public Library provides services to inform, enrich, and inspire the community through the lending of materials, programs, classes, and services such as free computer access, homebound delivery of materials, and outreach…
To ensure the preservation and transmission of society's knowledge, history and culture, and to provide the people of Millvale with free and open access to information for education, recreation and reference.
The mission of the Sewickley Public Library is to provide lifelong learning oppurtunities to the children and adults of the greater Quaker Valley Community.
General reading and lending library offering 24,000 titles, videos, audio books, newspapers, magazines, as well as, various programs to 3,000 residents of Dorset and smaller towns.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Points Family Young Men's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Alle-Kiski Valley Senior Citizens Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 73 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 PLUM BOROUGH COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Community Library of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds VALLEY POINTS FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALLE-KISKI VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GENEVA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPARK COMMUNITY CENTER 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: 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
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 Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable 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.
- The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Muriel E and Edward C Wachter Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.