· Public charity
Dietrich Foundation
The primary mission of the DIETRICH FOUNDATION (the "foundation") is to benefit higher education, primarily in the greater pittsburgh, pennsylvania area, by providing ongoing and increasing financial support to carnegie mellon university, the university of pittsburgh, thiel college, princeton university, duquesne university, and chatham…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $24,307,999 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $11,358,878 |
| THIEL COLLEGE | $2,271,776 |
| THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND | $1,647,038 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $1,363,065 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY | $1,135,888 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $624,738 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $454,355 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTE | $454,355 |
| PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC | $454,355 |
| CHATHAM UNIVERSITY | $454,355 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA LAUREL HIGHLANDS COUNCIL | $454,355 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $454,355 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CMCarnegie Mellon University8× · 2017–2024 · $147M · revenue +15%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH8× · 2017–2024 · $69M · revenue +44%- TCTHIEL COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +140%
Funded once
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…
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 provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Chatham University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THIEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HIGHLANDS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Dietrich 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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.