· Private foundation
Wabtec Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k225 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $380k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $362k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA | $135,568 |
| 100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA | $85,000 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND | $71,080 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $70,000 |
| CRUZ ROJA ESPANOLA (SPANISH RED CROSS) | $32,100 |
| THE ADVANCED LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (TALI) | $30,000 |
| VETERAN COMMUNITY PROJECT | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PIEDMONT | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE | $25,000 |
| ASSOCIATION MOVIMENTO UNIAO BR | $20,000 |
| NORTHWEST ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LINKED BY PINK | $16,500 |
| PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $15,000 |
| UNION CITY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $11,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Wabtec Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
175 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 129 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k 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
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +21%- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +41%
- PSPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -7%
- MOMARCH OF DIMES - WESTERN PAone grant, 2021 · $15k
- LPLEADERSHIP PITTSBURGHone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +15%
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.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Bit Coding Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
455 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. 455 of the 687 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Advanced Leadership Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS ↗
- Who funds Linked by Pink ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds Northwest ISD Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY'S PGH ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPLACES ↗
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: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · United Way of Erie County · Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Hamot Health Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charles a Dailey Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · John M & Gertrude E Petersen 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 Wabtec Foundation 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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