· Private foundation
Byham Charitable Foundation Attn Helen Spalaris Foundation Manager
Its FY2024 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: 51% of BYHAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ATTN HELEN SPALARIS FOUNDATION MANAGER’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $30,000 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PA | $30,000 |
| PITTSBURGH TOMORROW | $25,000 |
| WQED | $18,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $10,750 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WPA | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $5,500 |
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE | $5,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CLO | $4,500 |
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, $20k) 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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- PBPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC5× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +31%
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST7× · 2018–2024 · $117k · revenue +6%
- WMWQED MULTIMEDIA7× · 2018–2024 · $69k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- PIPGH INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES (GREENAMYRE RESEARCH)one grant, 2023 · $20k
- PIPGH INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES (PARKINSONS RESEARCH)one grant, 2022 · $20k
- CMCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART (CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL)one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (gpcc) is the advocacy affiliate of the allegheny conference on community development (accd). (continued on sch o) the chamber works to improve the competitiveness of the pittsburgh region for…
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…
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 90 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 PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREATING PITTSBURGH TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WOMEN BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
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: Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Fine Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · 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 Byham Charitable Foundation Attn Helen Spalaris Foundation Manager 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.
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% 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.