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The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable

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.

$72k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2025still arriving13$72k23%
FY202412$65k25%
FY202312$65k33%
FY202210$67k10%
FY202110$75k0%
FY202010$65k10%
FY201910$65k50%
FY20188$75k13%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$395kReligion$98kHealth$62kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$23kAnimals$17kInternational$5kYouth Development$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Angels Place Inc$190,00092%
Saint Vincent College$65,00060%
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh$45,00090%
Church Alive Incorporated$40,0002n/a
The Woiner Foundation$35,000773%
South Hills Interfaith Ministries$30,00080%
University of Pittsburgh$30,00030%
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$20,00080%
Society of St Vincent Depaul of Philade of Philadelphia$17,50070%
Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc$17,00040%
Glock Foundation$10,0002n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$7,50030%
Standing In The Gap$7,00043%
Brother's Brother Foundation$5,0001n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$5,0001n/a
Amd3 Foundation$4,00020%
Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh$2,50010%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$2,50010%
Bethel Park Football Boosters Inc$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($96k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAngels Place Inc: $190,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetSaint Vincent College: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Woiner Foundation: $35,000 over 7y, 73% of budgetSouth Hills Interfaith Ministries: $30,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of St Vincent Depaul of Philade of Philadelphia: $17,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGuardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStanding In The Gap: $7,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetAmd3 Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCafe Momentum Pittsburgh: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethel Park Football Boosters Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 15.

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.

Centimark FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centimark Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable

How much does The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable give?
The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable reported 13 grants totaling $72,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Religion (16%), Health (10%).
Who are The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Angels Place Inc ($190k), Saint Vincent College ($65k), Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh ($45k).
Does The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable 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 Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Centimark Foundation, Richard King Mellon Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable based?
The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable 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 29 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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