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Allegheny County Bar Foundation
The mission of the ALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION is to be a driving force in promoting justice for all and to improve the community through public service law-related programs as the charitable arm of the allegheny county bar association.
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 20 grants below total $190,312 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $366,812 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $176,500 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 $10k11 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN MINISTERIUM WALK IN MINISTY | $22,162 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $16,854 |
| NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $15,812 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES | $11,091 |
| ANSAR OF PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| ARISE IMMIGRATION SERVICES | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER | $10,000 |
| HUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT | $10,000 |
| JUST HARVEST | $9,299 |
| ALLIES FOR HEALTH & WELL BEING | $9,299 |
| HUNGER SERVICES URBAN LEAGUE OF PITTSBURGH | $8,137 |
| SQUIRREL HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $6,974 |
| JUBILEE KITCHEN | $5,812 |
| EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY | $5,812 |
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, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- NLNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +132%
- WCWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +35%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK4× · 2022–2025 · $72k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- 1G18 GREATER PGH COMM FOOD BANKSone grant, 2017 · $109k
- 1M1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -7%
- ACALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +23%
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.
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To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
The pittsburgh metropolitan area hispanic chamber of commerce is the principal regional advocate for the hispanic business community's civic and economic interests. it is our mission to develop, promote, and advocate on behalf of hispanic…
Ajapo's mission is to provide a continuum of care which empowers refugees and immigrants to become self-sufficient and integrated into the greater pittsburgh community in allegheny county. ajapo is a refugee resettlement agency providing…
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
The public justice center (pjc) pursues systemic change to build a just society. (see schedule o)the pjc uses legal advocacy tools to pursue social justice, economic and race equity, and fundamental human rights for people who are…
To solve civil legal problems and empower vulnerable populations through professional legal representation, advocacy, and education.
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 is to build a just and stable housing ecosystem for allegheny county tenants by ensuring residents can easily access high quality eviction prevention and supportive services, rental assistance programs and resource navigation…
The juvenile justice center of philadelphia is a non-profit, multi-service agency that serves the needs of disadvantaged children, youth and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Ansar of Pittsburgh Corp. 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 50 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% 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 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.
25 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. 25 of the 30 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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds Just Harvest-A Center For Action Against Hunger ↗
- Who funds ANSAR OF PITTSBURGH CORP ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERSECTION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVA ↗
- Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds KIDSVOICE ↗
- Who funds 1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES OF MCKEESPORT INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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 Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Fisa Foundation · Centimark Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Jefferson Regional 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 Allegheny County Bar 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.
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