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The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.4MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$925kEducation$485kInternational$452kScience & Tech$320kReligion$220kCivil Rights$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FILM PITTSBURGH$30,000
REPAIR THE WORLD PITTSBURGH$30,000
FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS$30,000
QUANTUM THEATER$30,000
HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -34% for those 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

+6%
-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
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.

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%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh; 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.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
17/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetALUMNI THEATER COMPANY: $75,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% 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 budgetJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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