· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of W MORELAND & RUTH U ERNST CHAR’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $13,345 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $3,416 |
| ANIMAL FRIENDS INC | $3,416 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE INC | $3,416 |
| GLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES | $3,416 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,771 |
| MASONIC CHARITIES FUNDS | $2,771 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,771 |
| SHERWOOD OAKS SUBSIDY FUND | $2,771 |
| KNIGHTS TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION | $2,771 |
| PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE FDN | $2,771 |
| DEMOLAY FOUNDATION | $2,765 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $2,765 |
| AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY | $1,468 |
| DUTILH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,468 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -100% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AFAnimal Friends Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +58%
- GRGLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +51%
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- PLPresbyterian Lay Committee Incone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -100%
- RPREFORMATION PRESS INCone grant, 2018 · $2k
- PAPittsburgh Athletic Associationone grant, 2017 · $163
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
To provide proactive administrative and professionals support services that advance the mission or our affiliated organizations.
In response to god's love in jesus christ, diakon lutheran fund will demonstrate god's command to love the neighbor through acts of service.
Pathlight partners with people with disabilities and their families to create opportunities to build relationships throughout their lives.
Incorporated in 1945, the pennsylvania builders association is a nonprofit professional trade organization representing approximately 4,066 members from across the commonwealth. pba members include contractors, builders, and remodelers,…
The purpose of this grand chapter, and the subordinate chapters constituted by and under its authority, is to promote the practice of charity and fraternity, exclusively within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code…
To improve occupational opportunity and public perception of legally blind arkansans through community engagement, work skills enhancement and the production of quality goods and services.
The mission of presbyterian homes housing & assisted living, inc. is to honor god by enriching the lives and touching the hearts of older adults.
The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…
The geneva foundation transforms lives by enriching presbyterian living and westminster place communities through generous and responsible philanthropy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lighthouse Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Bible Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds GLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Seniorcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA CHARITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMOLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUPREME COUNCIL EDUCATION & CHARITY ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Lay Committee Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Char funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.