· Community foundation
Washington County Community Foundation
To improve the quality of life in washington county by promoting and facilitating philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 139 grants below total $3,912,686 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,341,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $428,614 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $339k
- $10k–50k72 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $332k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON CITY MISSION | $331,982 |
| AMITY METHODIST CHURCH | $155,000 |
| LOWER TEN MILE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $155,000 |
| SETON-LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL | $152,810 |
| CASA FOR KIDS | $110,621 |
| HERITAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $107,325 |
| WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $103,000 |
| NATIONAL DUNCAN GLASS SOCIETY | $100,159 |
| SOUTHWESTERN PA HUMAN SERVICES | $100,000 |
| WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE | $82,232 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $80,600 |
| FOOD HELPERS | $73,080 |
| LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER | $66,954 |
| THE BROWNSON HOUSE | $62,283 |
| MONONGAHELA AREA LIBRARY | $61,522 |
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, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
164 repeat relationships — 107 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $655k 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
- WCWASHINGTON CITY MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +51%
- TWTHE WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +262% · 25% of their budget
- CFCASA FOR KIDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +218% · 96% of their budget
Funded once
- DFDRESS FOR SUCCESSone grant, 2018 · $36k
- WSWORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +47%
- HHHIGHMARK HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
Public lending library
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.
The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
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…
Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.
The mission of the warren library association is to provide all citizens in its service area access to library materials and information services which address the needs and expand the aspirations of the community for formal and lifelong…
Public Library providing educational, recreational and public services to approximately 6,000 Sewickley Township and Westmoreland County residents.
To promote and advance the interest of the washington county business community.
The mission of the pennsylvania rural water association is to work cooperatively within the industry to support not only its members but all the water and wastewater utilities throughout the commonwealth with professional technical…
The mission of the western allegheny community library is to provide a safe, inclusive and accessible community-centered library that is free to the public and empowers its residents personal, educational and professional growth through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connect Inc and the most unlike its peers is Washington Community Theatre. 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
184 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. 184 of the 278 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 WASHINGTON CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD HELPERS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DUNCAN GLASS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania Elks Major Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds MON VALLEY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS THE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds The Presbyterian Medical Center of Washington Pennsylvania Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWNSON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Symphonic Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Angel Ridge Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINTS ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Little Lake Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DONORA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MONONGAHELA AREA LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Calvary Chapel of Brownsville ↗
- Who funds Low Cost Spay Neuter Washington County 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: Eqt Foundation · United Way of Washington County · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Washington Financial Charitable Foundation · Core Cares Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency · Centimark Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Equitrans Midstream Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations
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 Washington County Community 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.
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.