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Thomas Barletta Schl

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Education$61kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$900
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,801
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$3,100
INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,250
SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY$900
INTEGRATIVE BODYWORKS SCHOOL$550
GENEVA COLLEGE$550
BUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE$350
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 (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $2k → 10%BUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT GREENSBURG: $2k → 10%GENEVA COLLEGE: $550 → 10%TRIANGLE TECH: $2k → 11%Pennsylvania College of Technology: $2k → 12%WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%Indiana University of Pennsylvania: $8k → 14%INTEGRATIVE BODYWORKS SCHOOL: $550 → 16%SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%BUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 9%Indiana University of Pennsylvania: $4k → 14%Penn State University: $5k → 16%MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE: $3k → 16%BUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $350 → 9%Indiana University of Pennsylvania: $3k → 14%Penn State University: $4k → 16%MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE: $2k → 16%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 14%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 14%Penn State University: $2k → 16%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $900 → 9%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 5 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$48k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-1%

Still filing today

20%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

  • IU
    Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    5× · 2019–2023 · $17k
  • PS
    Penn State University
    5× · 2019–2023 · $16k
  • SR
    SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT GREENSBURG
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +22%
  • WU
    WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -1%
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: $16,850 · OtherIndiana University of PennsylvaniaPenn State University: $15,900 · OtherPenn State UniversitySLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $5,900 · OtherSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITYBUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4,150 · OtherBUTLER CO COMMUNITY COLLEGETHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,801 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT GREENSBURG: $2,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · Other+2 more: $2,350 · OtherMOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationMOUNT ALOYSIUS C…WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationWAYNESBURG UNIVE…SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationSAINT FRANCIS UN…GENEVA COLLEGE: $550 · EducationGENEVA COLLEGE
Other$56,951Education$9,550

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA COLLEGE: $550 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 MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA COLLEGE ↗

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.

Brudnock Mem Sch FdPA16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brudnock Mem Sch Fd · Grace Davis Ed Fd · Irvin R Eugene Tw Educ · Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation · Mary Ann Irvin Schsp · The Bruno & Lena Degol Family Found · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Thomas Barletta Schl funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Barletta Schl. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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