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W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char

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.

$64k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,765
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,345
Organizations funded a year
23 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving23$64k0%
FY202424$58k4%
FY202323$62k0%
FY202223$69k0%
FY202123$55k13%
FY202023$57k0%
FY201923$63k4%
FY201824$57k4%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$191kHealth$111kYouth Development$52kReligion$43kAnimals$29kPublic Benefit$29kPhilanthropy$23kEducation$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
MO
MD
TN
OK
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$113,8769n/a
Animal Friends Inc$28,97690%
Glade Run Lutheran Services$28,97690%
Family Guidance Inc$28,97691%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$28,97590%
Presbyterian Seniorcare Foundation$23,39290%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$23,39290%
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation$23,39292%
Knights Templar Eye Foundation$23,39291%
Demolay Foundation Inc$23,38091%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$18,55370%
Mars Home for Youth Foundation$12,19790%
Glenshaw Public Library$12,1979n/a
American Bible Society$12,19790%
Dutilh United Methodist Church$12,1979n/a
The Lighthouse Foundation$12,19790%
Supreme Council Education & Charity$7,06651%
Presbyterian Lay Committee Inc$2,46610%
Pittsburgh Athletic Association$1631n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $28,976 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGlade Run Lutheran Services: $28,976 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Guidance Inc: $28,976 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $28,975 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Seniorcare Foundation: $23,392 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $23,392 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation: $23,392 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetKnights Templar Eye Foundation: $23,392 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetDemolay Foundation Inc: $23,380 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $18,553 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMars Home for Youth Foundation: $12,197 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $12,197 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lighthouse Foundation: $12,197 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSupreme Council Education & Charity: $7,066 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPresbyterian Lay Committee Inc: $2,466 over 1y, 0.5% 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 15.

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char

How much does W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char give?
W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char reported 23 grants totaling $63,845 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (20%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($114k), Animal Friends Inc ($29k), Glade Run Lutheran Services ($29k).
Does W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char 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 W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char based?
W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char 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 31 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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