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The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$303k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Philanthropy$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$905kInternational$467kPublic Benefit$100kCommunity Improvement$95kEducation$83kReligion$20kOther$1.4M
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $452k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $572k
  • $250k+1 grant · $303k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$303,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$230,000
T OF L INC DBA TREE OF LIFE INC$115,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$77,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$50,000
COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL$50,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE$45,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$35,000
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH$30,000
QUANTUM THEATER$30,000
FILM PITTSBURGH$30,000
FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS$30,000
REPAIR THE WORLD PITTSBURGH$30,000
HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $905k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $230k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $130k → 11%THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $50k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: $45k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: $40k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: $40k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: $40k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $30k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $25k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $20k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $15k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%OFF THE FLOOR PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $30k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $30k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 34 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -1% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
7

Total granted

$3.8M
$267k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
-34%

Still filing today

76%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationReligionPublic BenefitOther

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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $360k · revenue +11%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $302k · revenue +27%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $262k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • EH
    ERADICATE HATE GLOBAL SUMMITgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +81%
  • JA
    JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -34%
  • PI
    PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL CLASSIC THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -62%

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.

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Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
2
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Western Pennsylvania Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Inc

The western pennsylvania jewish sports hall of fame ("wpjshf") educates jewish youth as to their heritage vis-a-vis jewish men and women who have made significant contributions to society through sports and likewise educates the general…

Philanthropy
5
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
6
Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington Dc Inc

Guided by jewish values and heritage, the edlavitch dc jewish community center (edcjcc) engages individuals and families through its cultural, recreational, educational, and social justice programs by welcoming people of all backgrounds to…

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7
Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas

As the voice of the jewish community, to protect jewish interests & promote jewish ideals.

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8
Philadelphia Film Society

The philadelphia film society (pfs) is the region's home for classic and contemporary film presentation, education, entertainment, and community building. a nonprofit, community-supported organization, pfs produces the acclaimed…

Arts & Culture
9
San Diego Center for Jewish Culture

San diego center for jewish culture ("cjc") is a california 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that was incorporated in january 1999. cjc is housed at lawrence family jewish community centers of san diego county. cjc provides a wide…

Arts & Culture
10
The Friends of the Pittsburgh Institutions
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11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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12
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Eradicate Hate Global Summit. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth & Family Community Ce…Arts & Cultural Organizatio…Regional Health SystemsEducation Support Organizat…Faith-Based K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%6%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr20%28%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%7%<5yr12%1%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr20%20%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr16%51%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
8%
764/9,869

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
16/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Carnegie Mellon University — $302,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityJEWISH CEMETERY & BURIAL ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · OtherJEWISH CEMETERY & BURIAL ASSOC…REPAIR THE WORLD PITTSBURGH — $125,000 · OtherREPAIR THE WORLD PITTSBURGHThe Working Group — $100,000 · OtherThe Working GroupCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOLSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRY — $80,000 · OtherSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTR…VIOLINS OF HOPE FUND GREATER PITTSBURGH — $80,000 · OtherVIOLINS OF HOPE FUND GREATER P…HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER — $75,000 · OtherALEPH INSTITUTE INC — $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $53,000 · Other+10 more — $269,000 · Other+10 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,314,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATE…T OF L INC — $230,000 · Arts & CultureT OF L INCCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $180,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTEQUANTUM THEATRE INC — $160,000 · Arts & CultureQUANTUM THEATRE INCThe City Theatre Company Inc — $130,000 · Arts & CultureThe City Theatre Compan…FILM PITTSBURGH — $115,000 · Arts & CultureFILM PITTSBURGHFRONT PORCH THEATRICALS — $85,000 · Arts & CultureFRONT PORCH THEATRICALSALUMNI THEATER COMPANY — $75,000 · Arts & CultureALUMNI THEATER COMPANYPRIME STAGE — $57,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL CLASSIC THEATRE — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $40,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT — $360,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN AND WOME…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $165,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND …THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $155,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIR…CENTER OF LIFE — $90,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF LIFEEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $70,000 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATI…JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING — $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ASSOCIATION…+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $261,500 · InternationalFRIENDS O…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $140,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $40,000 · InternationalJUNIOR AC…+2 more — $25,000 · International+2 moreERADICATE HATE GLOBAL SUMMIT — $100,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION — $95,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,459,000Philanthropy$1,314,000Arts & Culture$1,112,000Human Services$905,000International$466,500Public Benefit$100,000Community Improvement$95,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,314,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT — $360,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $302,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $261,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetT OF L INC — $230,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $165,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetQUANTUM THEATRE INC — $160,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $155,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe City Theatre Company Inc — $130,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFILM PITTSBURGH — $115,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetThe Working Group — $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION — $95,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCENTER OF LIFE — $90,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFRONT PORCH THEATRICALS — $85,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER — $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetALUMNI THEATER COMPANY — $75,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPRIME STAGE — $57,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC — $53,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ISRAEL CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY LTD — $45,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL CLASSIC THEATRE — $40,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND — $30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHOSANNA HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOFF THE FLOOR PITTSBURGH — $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGE 62 — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budget
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.

The Fine FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…The Pittsburgh Founda…Jewish Federation of …The Heinz EndowmentsThe Grable FoundationHillman Family Founda…Opportunity FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Staunton Farm Foundat…David S Shapira Found…Giant Eagle Foundation
The Fine FoundationPA49.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fine Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Opportunity Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · David S Shapira Foundation · Giant Eagle 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 Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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