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Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$870k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
54
Grants FY2024
55
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
53 to 61
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$20M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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 arriving54$870k9%
FY202355$802k24%
FY202253$853k21%
FY202161$918k23%
FY202058$903k24%
FY201960$827kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.0MReligion$968kHuman Services$642kHealth$380kRecreation & Sports$264kPhilanthropy$264kArts & Culture$218kCommunity Improvement$144kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Prince of Peace Center$490,000612%
St Michael School$300,0006n/a
Buhl Park Corporation$220,75062%
Willow Womens Center$135,000619%
Saint John Xxiii Home$125,00060%
Hope Center for Arts and Technology Inc$70,00026%
Church of the Good Shepherd$69,0006n/a
Church of the Beloved Disciple$69,0006n/a
Comprehensive Learning Center Inc$60,00060%
Society of the Holy Child Jesus$57,7442n/a
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All grantees of Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Prince of Peace Center$490,000612%
St Michael School$300,0006n/a
Buhl Park Corporation$220,75062%
Willow Womens Center$135,000619%
Saint John Xxiii Home$125,00060%
Hope Center for Arts and Technology Inc$70,00026%
Church of the Good Shepherd$69,0006n/a
Church of the Beloved Disciple$69,0006n/a
Comprehensive Learning Center Inc$60,00060%
Society of the Holy Child Jesus$57,7442n/a
St Josephs Church$47,0004n/a
Joshuas Haven$33,0006n/a
University of the Cumberlands Inc$30,00060%
Children's Center of Mercer County$30,00061%
Buhl Community Recreation Center$28,00060%
St Eulalia Catholic Church$25,0002n/a
Keystone Blind Association$15,00030%
The Arc of Mercer County$15,000313%
Shenango Valley Childrens Transplant Fund Inc$15,0003n/a
St Bartholomews Church$15,0002n/a
Heavenly Gaits Therapeutic Riding Center Inc$13,00058%
Delaware Valley University$10,00020%
Sharon Historical Society$10,0002n/a
Slippery Rock University Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Shenango River Watchers Inc$9,00042%
United Way of Mercer County$9,00030%
Shenango Valley YMCA$9,00031%
Shenango Valley Chorale$7,00065%
St Paul Homes$5,00010%
The Ohio State Universtiy$5,0001n/a
Coudersport Volunteer Fire Dep$4,00021%
Fredonia Volunteer Fire Department$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPrince of Peace Center: $490,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetBuhl Park Corporation: $220,750 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWillow Womens Center: $135,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetSaint John Xxiii Home: $125,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHope Center for Arts and Technology Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetComprehensive Learning Center Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of the Cumberlands Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Center of Mercer County: $30,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBuhl Community Recreation Center: $28,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKeystone Blind Association: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Mercer County: $15,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetHeavenly Gaits Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetDelaware Valley University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSlippery Rock University Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShenango River Watchers Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Way of Mercer County: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetShenango Valley YMCA: $9,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetShenango Valley Chorale: $7,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetSt Paul Homes: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoudersport Volunteer Fire Dep: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFredonia Volunteer Fire Department: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 21.

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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.

Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern OhioPA33.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Edward J Kavanagh Foundation · James Frances McCandless Trust · United Way of Mercer County · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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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How do I get to Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc

How much does Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc give?
Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc reported 54 grants totaling $870,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 61 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Religion (19%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Prince of Peace Center ($490k), St Michael School ($300k), Buhl Park Corporation ($221k).
Does Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, Buhl Regional Health Foundation, Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust.
Where is Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc based?
Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc 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 117 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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