· Private foundation
Wittmer Zoerb Foundation
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF NURSING | $70,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| ST PAUL'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOMERSET | $55,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY | $55,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART | $35,000 |
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY | $35,000 |
| PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY | $35,000 |
| LAUREL ARTS OF SOMERSET | $30,000 |
| SIXTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF PITTSBURGH | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE PITTSBURGH | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE OF PITTSBURGH | $15,000 |
| ANIMAL FRIENDS | $15,000 |
| SOMERSET HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| SOMERSET COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $14,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your 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.
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 zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The mission of pittsburgh opera, inc. is to enrich pittsburgh and the tri-state area culturally and to draw national and international attention to the region. this commitment is comprised of four goals: creating opera productions which…
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
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,…
Presenting diverse, quality performing & visual art; managing arts facilities; advancing arts education; and creating & developing pittsburgh's cultural district as a destination for entertainment, business, and urban living, thus…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels of Somerset County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER OF CAMBRIA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
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 Fine Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Wittmer Zoerb 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.