· Private foundation
Catherine and Mark H Loevner Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of CATHERINE AND MARK H LOEVNER FAMILY FOUNDATION’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 $10k42 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACIE MANSION CONSERVANCY | $11,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| FRICK MUSEUM & HISTORICAL CENTER | $6,000 |
| PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| THE LGBT NETWORK | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S COMMITTEE CARNEGIE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY | $4,000 |
| RODEF SHALOM CONGREGATION | $3,810 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART | $3,395 |
| AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| RALPH HEINS NY PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| HEINZ HISTORY CENTER | $2,750 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $2,510 |
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE | $2,500 |
| LADIES HOSPITAL AID SOCIETY | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 24 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +174%
- HSHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +181%
- PSPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- TFTHE FRICK PITTSBURGH SUPPORT FOR EXHIBITIONone grant, 2023 · $6k
- NSNORTON SCULPTURE GARDENone grant, 2021 · $2k
- EAEYE AND EAR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +158%
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.
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,…
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
Phlf works within a 250-mile radius of pittsburgh, pennsylvania to: identify and save historically significant places; renew historic neighborhoods, towns, and urban areas; preserve historic farms and historically designated landscapes;…
The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
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…
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
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…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Cultural Trust 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 10% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 140 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 CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GRACIE MANSION CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CINDERELLA WOMENS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds AUTUMN HOUSE PRESS ↗
- Who funds EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds Garden Club of Allegheny County ↗
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 · The Fine Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · David S Shapira Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Richard and Dana Green Philanthropic Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Grable 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 Catherine and Mark H Loevner 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.