Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Touchstone Cares
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.
- $237k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $207,425
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $125k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations Touchstone Cares funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $237k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $519k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $377k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $344k | 73% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $143k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $202k | 91% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami University Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dry Bones Ministries | $22,846 | 2 | 1% |
| Crossroads United Methodist Church | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $13,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Bremerton Services Association | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Eternal Word Television Network Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tash Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Lighthouse Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| South Kitsap Helpline | $9,500 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Touchstone Cares supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Touchstone Cares
- How much does Touchstone Cares give?
- Touchstone Cares reported 9 grants totaling $237,338 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Touchstone Cares fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Human Services (26%), International (19%).
- Who are Touchstone Cares's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Miami University Foundation ($75k), University of Pittsburgh ($50k), Dry Bones Ministries ($23k).
- Does Touchstone Cares fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Touchstone Cares 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 Touchstone Cares?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Touchstone Cares based?
- Touchstone Cares is based in PA.
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