· Private foundation
Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $158k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DICKINSON CENTER INC | $205,000 |
| ELK REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| PENN HIGHLANDS HEALTHCARE | $150,000 |
| ELK COUNTY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM | $132,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| DUBOIS AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOL INC | $98,000 |
| FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DUBOIS | $70,000 |
| BUHL PARK CORPORATION | $65,000 |
| SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK | $57,200 |
| URBAN IMPACT | $50,000 |
| THE LUTHERAN HOME AT KANE | $50,000 |
| MHY FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL | $48,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
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 +8% for the ones you funded once.
128 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 38 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $837k 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
- DCDICKINSON CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +94%
- ERElk Regional Health Center5× · 2018–2024 · $950k · revenue +8%
- SVSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE5× · 2018–2024 · $455k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- SMST MARYS AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -8%
- CNCommunity Nurses Incone grant, 2018 · $98k · revenue -271%
- BCBOYS CLUB HOLDING CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $85k · 77% of their budget
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.
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…
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
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.
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…
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…
Provides supports to people with intellectual/developmental disability across the lifespan that encourages growth and meaningful life choices while assisting persons in finding home, health, friends, work, and presence in their…
To provide a continuum of care for homeless individuals that leads toward self-sufficiency.
The mission of penn state health holy spirit medical center is to nurture the healing ministry of the church, supported by education and research. fidelity to the gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we create…
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. (fhccp) is to build and support community-based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.
We, trinity health pace and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.life st. mary is a member of trinity health pace and trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickinson Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
147 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. 147 of the 222 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 DICKINSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Elk Regional Health Center ↗
- Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DUBOIS INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MHY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHRIST THE KING MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRADLEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUHL PARK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds DuBois Regional Medical Center ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER 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 · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · James Frances McCandless Trust · Eqt Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Centimark Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Upmc Group
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 Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Options Inc — 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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