· Private foundation
William F & Lynn D Gauss Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of WILLIAM F & LYNN D GAUSS FDN’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 $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Duke University Health System | $45,500 |
| WATTS CHAPEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST | $30,000 |
| DIVINE GRACE PARISH | $29,950 |
| ST ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| UPMC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - WPA CHAP | $20,000 |
| SHEPHERDS TABLE SOUP KITCHEN | $19,950 |
| Mars United Presbyterian Church | $15,000 |
| THE ALS ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN | $15,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| ELFINWILD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FND | $5,000 |
| Northland Public Library Foundation | $5,000 |
| SHALER NORTH HILLS LIBRARY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
32 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH6× · 2017–2022 · $185k · revenue +61%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $130k · revenue +5%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE MUSEUM ON THE MOVEone grant, 2017 · $15k
- NCNOPRTH CAROLINA VET MED FDNone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
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…
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
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.
Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.
It is the mission of wayne memorial hospital to provide quality healthcare with compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service; to promote wellness in our community; and to be proactive in responding to our community's needs.
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
Good samaritan physician services' mission is improving the health of patients and our communities as a multi-specialty group, built on a foundation of primary care and prevention, and coordinated within a comprehensive system of care to…
Charles cole memorial hospital's (upmc cole) mission is to serve the surrounding rural communities by providing quality patient care and improving the quality of life for all patients.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Hills Community Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 61 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 44 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CORAOPOLIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUSCARORA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAITI ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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 · Eqt Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Equitrans Midstream Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Baird Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc
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 William F & Lynn D Gauss Fdn 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.
- 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.