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The Tomahawk Hill 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.

$65k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Tomahawk Hill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving10$65k30%
FY20238$68k25%
FY20227$60k14%
FY202110$101k30%
FY20208$63k13%
FY20199$77k22%
FY20189$111k0%
FY201710$119kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$248kHuman Services$186kHealth$117kEducation$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kHousing & Shelter$14kYouth Development$9kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tomahawk Hill Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLoyalhanna Watershed Association Inc: $181,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetLigonier Valley Young Mens Christia Association: $125,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetShadyside Hospital Foundation: $89,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLight of Life Ministries Inc: $42,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMagee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLigonier Valley Fire Companies: $22,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetValley Youth Network: $9,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLigonier Valley Library Association: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLigonier Valley Historical Society: $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWestmoreland County Food Bank Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLigonier Valley Meals on Wheels: $3,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 12.

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.

Rk Mellon Family FoundationPA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rk Mellon Family Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Laurel Ridge Foundation Inc · Summit Foundation · The Dorothy Babcock Family Charitable Foundation · Frances H & Harold E Gordon Charitable Foundation · Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Richard King Mellon 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.

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About The Tomahawk Hill Foundation

How much does The Tomahawk Hill Foundation give?
The Tomahawk Hill Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Tomahawk Hill Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (38%), Human Services (28%), Health (18%).
Who are The Tomahawk Hill Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Loyalhanna Watershed Association Inc ($181k), Ligonier Valley Young Mens Christia Association ($125k), Shadyside Hospital Foundation ($89k).
Does The Tomahawk Hill Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Tomahawk Hill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Tomahawk Hill Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rk Mellon Family Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Laurel Ridge Foundation Inc.
Where is The Tomahawk Hill Foundation based?
The Tomahawk Hill Foundation 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 22 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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