· Private foundation
Cahouet Family 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $13,750 |
| IDAHO FFA FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| FEEDING THE SPIRIT | $7,000 |
| MEADOWS VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,250 |
| MCCALL ULTRA SLED DOG CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| PENN STATE DANCE MARATHON - THON | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ADAMS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE | $5,000 |
| WELLNESS HOUSE OF ANNAPOLIS | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,750 |
| BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| BURROWS HILL FOUNDATION | $3,250 |
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 (FY18–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- SVSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $190k · revenue +19%
- LOLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC3× · 2018–2020 · $63k · revenue +67%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK3× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- CCCAHOUET CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE PARKINSON'S CAREone grant, 2021 · $45k
- HFHOLY FAMILY INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +41%
- WTWINCHESTER THURSTONone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
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, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence in our communities.glacier hills is a member of the trinity senior living communities…
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
To support the charitable purposes of homeward bound, inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Family Institute 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 27 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 78 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 SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNALTERED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLIND SPOT ANIMAL SANCTUARY IN ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds FEEDING THE SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds EARTHEN VESSELS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foster Love Project ↗
- Who funds BURROWS HILL FOUNDATION TO FIGHT FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA ↗
- Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Caring Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE 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 · Tickets for Kids Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · World Vision Inc · American Gift Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving 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 Cahouet Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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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