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The Sedwick Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $760k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $250,000 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE | $160,000 |
| WORLD LINK MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| PINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE | $150,000 |
| SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA | $150,000 |
| MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP | $115,000 |
| CRU (CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST) | $100,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SENECA HILLS BIBLE CAMP | $100,000 |
| PIONEERS INC | $100,000 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE INC | $75,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $75,000 |
| PATHFINDER FARMS | $65,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY | $65,000 |
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, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Sedwick Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- SNSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +48%
- PVPINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +86%
- WLWORLD LINK MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $978k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2017 · $100k
- EOELLEN O'BRIEN GAISER ADDICTION CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +71%
- SOSPECIALTY OUTREACH SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue -22%
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.
Christian psychological counseling
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
Educate children in a christian environment
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The organization exists to glorify God by evangelizing, encouraging, and equipping individuals for active ministry through Bible Adventure, leadership training, and camping programs.
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
Christian life academy supports christian families by providing a biblically based education that develops individual academic excellence. we seek to form young men and women who will know and serve the lord jesus christ with all their…
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To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Life Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Bible Society. 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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 67 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 SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PINE VALLEY BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds WORLD LINK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GPA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Christ For All Peoples Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD G SNYDER YMCA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Jay & Linda Sedwick Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Butler County Bar Association Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · World Vision Inc · Usher Family Foundation · Concordia Lutheran Ministriesfoundation · Armstrong County Community Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
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 Sedwick 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.
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.
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