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Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$432k
Granted FY2023
51
Grants FY2023
10
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$423kEducation$211kReligion$210kFood & Nutrition$200kHuman Services$193kArts & Culture$184kInternational$71kRecreation & Sports$64kOther$0
02FY2023 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k39 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMMAUS SOUP KITCHENEMMAUS MINISTRIES$60,000
INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSE$50,000
SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA$45,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$30,000
MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN$25,000
PHSC FOUNDATION INC$20,000
FEEDING AMERICA$20,000
ERIE CITY MISSION$20,000
VISION FOR THE POOR$15,000
COMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$15,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$10,000
F W HIRT EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND$10,000
CAMP NOTRE DAME$9,000
COMMUNITY OF CARING$7,000
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$7,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $171k) 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%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $200 → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%BEACON HOUSE ADOPTION SERVICES INC: $3k → 19%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $100 → 6%BEACON HOUSE ADOPTION SERVICES INC: $3k → 19%BEACON HOUSE ADOPTION SERVICES INC: $3k → 19%BEACON HOUSE ADOPTION SERVICES INC: $3k → 19%SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $45k → 15%SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $45k → 15%SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $40k → 15%SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $26k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OH
PA
CA
VA
KS
TN
LA
GA
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 54 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+49%

Still filing today

69%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • TS
    THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $156k · revenue +67%
  • MC
    MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +75%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • 1S
    1PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • E
    EHCA
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CC
    CINCINNATI CENTER FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc; the most unlike its peers is Anna Foundation Inc Assoc for Needy and Neglected Animals. 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

40 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. 40 of the 61 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
32/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMMAUS SOUP KITCHENEMMAUS MINISTRIES: $210,000 · OtherEMMAUS SOUP KITCHENEMMAUS MINISTRIESINNER CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSE: $160,000 · OtherINNER CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ART HOUSESECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $120,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $85,000 · OtherMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INCPHSC FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · OtherPHSC FOUNDATION INCFEEDING AMERICA: $80,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICACOMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE: $60,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $38,900 · Other+26 more: $230,500 · Other+26 moreTHE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $156,268 · Human ServicesTHE SIGHT CEN…F W HIRT EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND: $20,000 · Human ServicesF W HIRT EMPL…BEACON HOUSE ADOPTION SERVICES INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesBEACON HOUSE …+2 more: $2,300 · Human ServicesCommunity of Caring Inc: $37,000 · HealthCommunity …PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $24,000 · HealthPANCREATIC…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 · HealthBLOOD CANC…DR GERTRUDE A BARBER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthDR GERTRUD…ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $20,000 · HealthACHIEVEMEN…ERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC: $8,000 · HealthERIE HOMES…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $8,000 · HealthTHE MICHAE…AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS: $6,500 · HealthVISION FOR THE POOR: $60,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $4,000 · InternationalIroquois School District Foundation: $20,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $4,900 · EducationJohn Carroll University: $4,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3,500 · EducationGANNON UNIVERSITY: $1,400 · Education+1 more: $700 · EducationFlagship Niagara League: $19,500 · Arts & CultureERIE CIVIC THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureErie Philharmonic Inc: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,129,400Human Services$190,568Health$143,500International$71,000Education$34,500Arts & Culture$23,500Public Safety & Disaster$18,000

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 budgetTHE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $156,268 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $85,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $65,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetVISION FOR THE POOR: $60,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity of Caring Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP NOTRE DAME INC: $36,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIroquois School District Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetF W HIRT EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetDR GERTRUDE A BARBER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlagship Niagara League: $19,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON HOUSE ADOPTION SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARTNERSHIP FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS: $6,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $4,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN ANGELS CAT SANCTUARY: $3,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST UNIVERSITY: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetERIE CIVIC THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetErie Philharmonic Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE NATURE COAST INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $300 over 2y, 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 THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VISION FOR THE POOR ↗
  • Who funds CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE ↗
  • Who funds Community of Caring Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAMP NOTRE DAME INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Iroquois School District Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds F W HIRT EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
  • Who funds DR GERTRUDE A BARBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Flagship Niagara League ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEACON HOUSE ADOPTION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds ERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS ↗

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.

Erie Community FoundationPA34× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · The Britton Family Foundation · Kern Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Erie County · John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Henry A and Mary J MacDonald Foundation · McBrier 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 Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Vorsheck Family 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.

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 61 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $468k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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