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The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
90
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0158% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MScience & Tech$260kArts & Culture$60kHealth$11kYouth Development$7kEnvironment$7kInternational$3kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k86 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$500
Median grant
19
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$40,000
BLACK HAWK COLLEGE$10,000
UNIV OF HEALTH SCIENCES & PHARMACY$10,000
JUNIATA COLLEGE$10,000
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY$9,996
TRUSTEES OF TRINITY COLLEGE$9,857
ST FRANCIS COLLEGE$6,150
ST VINCENT COLLEGE$6,000
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY$5,000
EASTERN UNIVERSITY$5,000
EASTERN UNIVERSITY$4,858
ACS DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY$4,150
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA$3,400
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH$3,400
MAD SCIENCE OF PITTSBURGH$3,400
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSTIY: $10k → 11%JUNIATA COLLEGE: $10k → 13%KEYSTONE COLLEGE: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE: $40k → 11%UARP: $10k → 15%HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $10k → 10%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%ACS DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: $28k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $40k → 14%UARP: $10k → 10%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 21%DEPT OF CHEMISTRY ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%UNIV OF HEALTH SCIENCES & PHARMACY: $10k → 21%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WI: $10k → 7%MARIAN UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $10k → 9%NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $10k → 13%REGIS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%FORT LEWIS COLLEGE: $10k → 12%VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%OBERLIN COLLEGE: $10k → 13%MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE: $10k → 7%BLACK HAWK COLLEGE: $10k → 15%MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $10k → 8%ST MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $10k → 10%ACS DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: $28k → 12%AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%AVILA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 11%ACS-DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: $14k → 12%DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%ST VINCENT COLLEGE: $10k → 10%WEST LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%PENN STATE BEAVER: $10k → 10%RIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE COPORATION: $10k → 11%CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER: $12k → 11%CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER: $12k → 11%CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER: $12k → 11%SSP: $62k → 11%SPECTROSCOPY SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $13k → 11%LAROCHE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $40k → 11%WQED PITTSBURGH: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$748k · 67 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

67 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 67 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
718

Total granted

$748k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+17%

Still filing today

30%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureScience & TechYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +57%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +44%
  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • S
    SSP
    one grant, 2017 · $62k
  • WS
    WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $60k
  • MU
    MIAMI UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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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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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2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
8
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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11
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gettysburg College; the most unlike its peers is Pasco Schiavo Charitable Foundation Tr. 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

81 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. 81 of the 853 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
51/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $63,599 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSSP: $61,844 · OtherSSPWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYMIAMI UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $40,000 · Other+137 more: $602,013 · Other+137 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $78,597 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $54,300 · EducationSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITYSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $46,300 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COLLEGEDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $42,550 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRI…+43 more: $348,548 · Education+43 moreCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $84,500 · Arts & CultureWQED MULTIMEDIA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $7,400 · Arts & CultureAssemble Inc: $4,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $81,150 · Science & TechAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Science & Tech+1 more: $2,500 · Science & TechGIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,900 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA: $3,400 · International
Other$957,456Education$570,295Arts & Culture$105,900Science & Tech$93,650Youth Development$5,900International$3,400

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $84,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $81,150 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $78,597 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $54,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $46,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $42,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTROSCOPY SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $19,870 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $16,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $13,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $11,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Central College: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $10,573 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA ROCHE UNIVERSITY: $10,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOberlin College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVILA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $9,996 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $9,858 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $9,857 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLaGrange College: $9,490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PARK UNIVERSITY: $9,144 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $7,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS COLLEGE: $6,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNO COLLEGE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION: $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds SPECTROSCOPY SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds North Central College ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LA ROCHE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JUNIATA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
  • Who funds Oberlin College ↗
  • Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds REGIS UNIVERSITY ↗

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 Founda…Spectroscopy Society …Folds of Honor Founda…Council of Independen…Ibm International Fou…Eqt FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Staunton Farm Foundat…American Chemical Soc…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Heinz Endowments
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA26.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh · Folds of Honor Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Ibm International Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · American Chemical Society · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments

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 Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College: 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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Find your warmest path to The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh 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 853 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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