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The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANGEL'S PLACE$20,000
SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$10,000
GLOCK FOUNDATION$5,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH$5,000
BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION$5,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$2,500
SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MOVEMENT$2,500
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$2,500
OPERATION WALK PITTSBURGH$2,000
STANDING IN THE GAP$1,500
RESURRECTION PARISH$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 16%STANDING IN THE GAP: $3k → 11%STANDING IN THE GAP: $2k → 11%STANDING IN THE GAP: $2k → 11%STANDING IN THE GAP: $2k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$595k · 19 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
7

Total granted

$595k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+25%

Still filing today

58%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AP
    Angels Place Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +110%
  • SV
    SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +19%
  • CL
    CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SV
    SAINT VINCENT'S SEMINARY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • NF
    NORTHSIDE FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • CM
    CAFE MOMENTUM PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +25%
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.

1
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
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
3
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation

The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.

Philanthropy
6
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
7
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
8
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation

Children's hospital of pittsburgh foundation is the sole fundraising arm of upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh.the foundation exists to provide financial support for the hospital's mission of improving the health and well-being of…

Health
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Standing in the Gap. 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

17 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. 17 of the 29 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Angels Place Inc: $190,000 · OtherAngels Place IncUNIV PGH SWANSON ENGINEERING SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherUNIV PGH SWANSON ENGINEERING SCHOOLCHURCH ALIVE INCORPORATED: $40,000 · OtherCHURCH ALIVE INCORPORATEDTHE WOINER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherTHE WOINER FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $20,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF PHILADE OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,500 · Other+11 more: $49,000 · Other+11 moreSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COLLEGECARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $45,000 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSB…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $30,000 · ReligionGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesStanding In The Gap: $7,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $7,500 · HealthAMD3 FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,500 · HealthBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · International
Other$391,500Education$145,000Religion$30,000Human Services$24,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Health$14,000International$5,000

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

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
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 Angels Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE WOINER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF PHILADE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Standing In The Gap ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMD3 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds Bethel Park Football Boosters Inc ↗

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 FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wilson J & Karen a Farmerie Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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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