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The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
HealthEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving7$101k57%
FY20248$105k38%
FY20237$100k57%
FY20228$95k63%
FY20216$88k83%
FY20206$79k83%
FY20198$93k88%
FY20186$91k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$565kEducation$121kHuman Services$35kInternational$35kYouth Development$20kHousing & Shelter$15kCommunity Improvement$12kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Show all 39 grantees
All grantees of The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Pittsburgh$88,36440%
Connecting Champions$77,50035%
Cancer Bridges$31,00022%
Lending Hearts$30,9152n/a
Prostate Cancer Foundation$30,00030%
Eye and Ear Foundation$25,99711%
American Cancer Society Inc$25,00020%
Brother's Brother Foundation$25,00010%
LuMind IDSC Foundation$20,84210%
Wills Eye Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Nsabp Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Allies for Health Wellbeing$20,00010%
Maple Tree Cancer Alliance$20,00021%
Cr Jrs Chip$20,00011%
Visiting Nurses Association of Butler County Inc$16,56820%
Chrysalis Initiative$15,00021%
At Jacobs Well Inc$15,00013%
Westmoreland County Blind Association$15,00010%
Dream Partnership$15,00014%
Burger King Cancer Caring Center$14,35713%
Ayudate Incorporated$12,50016%
Young Adult Survivors United$12,00013%
Bloomfield Development Corporation$12,00017%
Pittsburgh Warriors Hockey$11,2901n/a
Global Links$10,00010%
The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents$10,00010%
For Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation$10,00010%
Gateway Maryland Inc$10,00010%
Catholic Charities Health Care Center Inc$9,10212%
South Hills Interfaith Ministries$7,50010%
Johns Hopkins University$7,50010%
Samaritan Center$7,50010%
American Heart Association Inc$5,73910%
Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund$5,00011%
Faith & Gratitude Inc$5,000111%
412 Thrive$5,00011%
Hair Peace Charities$4,68513%
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation$3,51810%
The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation$2,20510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $88,364 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConnecting Champions: $77,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCancer Bridges: $31,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEye and Ear Foundation: $25,997 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrother's Brother Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation: $20,842 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWills Eye Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNsabp Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAllies for Health Wellbeing: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMaple Tree Cancer Alliance: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCr Jrs Chip: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVisiting Nurses Association of Butler County Inc: $16,568 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChrysalis Initiative: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAt Jacobs Well Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWestmoreland County Blind Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDream Partnership: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBurger King Cancer Caring Center: $14,357 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAyudate Incorporated: $12,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetYoung Adult Survivors United: $12,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBloomfield Development Corporation: $12,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetGlobal Links: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFor Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGateway Maryland Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities Health Care Center Inc: $9,102 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSouth Hills Interfaith Ministries: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Center: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,739 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFaith & Gratitude Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budget412 Thrive: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHair Peace Charities: $4,685 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation: $3,518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $2,205 over 1y, 0.2% 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 37.

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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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA35.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust

How much does The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust give?
The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust reported 7 grants totaling $101,471 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (68%), Education (15%), Human Services (4%).
Who are The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Pittsburgh ($88k), Connecting Champions ($78k), Cancer Bridges ($31k).
Does The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Upmc Group, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Where is The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust based?
The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust 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 45 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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