· Private foundation
The Washington Financial Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE WASHINGTON FINANCIAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $182,216 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $281,966 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k34 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Washington Health Systems Foundation | $25,000 |
| WCCF | $25,000 |
| United Way of Washington County | $14,321 |
| John F. Kennedy Catholic School | $12,000 |
| Trinity Area School District | $10,000 |
| Trinity Area School District | $10,000 |
| Dress For Success Pittsburgh | $10,000 |
| Blueprints | $10,000 |
| PA Trolley Museum | $10,000 |
| Avella | $8,250 |
| Blueprints | $5,000 |
| Washington Business District Authority | $5,000 |
| Mon Valley Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| Main Street Farmers Market Inc. | $4,670 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Ptts | $4,000 |
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 +60% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- BBLUEPRINTS2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +17%
- DFDRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +71%
- WAWASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- PSPresbyterian SeniorCaregraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +32%
- WHWashington Health System Foundationone grant, 2020 · $25k
- WCWASHINGTON CITY MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +33%
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.
To provide policy guidance, technical assistance, and program oversight for the city of pittsburgh and allegheny county, and to assist in the economic development of southwestern pa region.
Vna home health services provides part-time, skilled, intermittent home health services that have been ordered by a physician and are medically necessary to the treatment of an illness or injury. vna home health services offers a wide…
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
An esteemed short-stay & long-term skilled nursing facility with rehabilitation, dementia & hospice services that serves persons of all incomes & is committed to excellence & person-centered care.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
To plan and coordinate systems of services which help older americans, those with disabilities regardless of age and caregivers, maintain their independence through a variety of programs. these programs include, but are not limited to,…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
An esteemed short-stay & long-term skilled nursing facility with rehabilitation, dementia & hospice services that serves persons of all incomes & is committed to excellence & person-centered care.
To enrich the quality of life for persons who have experienced problems related to the use or abuse of alcohol and other drugs. this organization will ensure that clients receive the appropriate level of drug/alcohol treatment, while…
Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connect Inc and the most unlike its peers is Burgettstown Area Community Development Corp. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 81 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 Presbyterian SeniorCare ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds ARC HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER IN THE WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Angels Place Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN PA ↗
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: Washington County Community Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Eqt Foundation · Centimark Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · United Way of Washington County · Salvitti Family Foundation Ima · Cnx 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.
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