· Private foundation
Dollar Bank Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $214k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $829k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROHEALTH FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA | $100,000 |
| THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB | $50,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $48,655 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH | $38,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $35,000 |
| GIFTS UNDER THE CORPORATE MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM | $34,332 |
| HAMPTON ROADS WORKFORCE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $28,200 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ALLEGANY COUNTY | $28,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORP | $25,000 |
| CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VILLAGE CAPITAL CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| ALLEGHENY COUNTY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $553k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
158 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 37 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k 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
- TMTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +8%
- VCVILLAGE CAPITAL CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +94%
- ACALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT3× · 2020–2023 · $134k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- PEPittsburgh Economic and Industrial Development Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +42% · 30% of their budget
- TMThe Musical Arts Associationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue +39%
- LMLIFE MALE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue ×14
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.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Vibrant pittsburgh's mission is to accelerate the business community toward equitable, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, creating a future-forward region.
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
The mission of the urban league is to empower disadvantaged, underresourced and marginalized communities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is The Greenwood Plan. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
254 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. 254 of the 349 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE CAPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Economic and Industrial Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds LOCUS IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds Allegheny County Library Association ↗
- Who funds DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds JOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment G ↗
- Who funds Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH GATEWAYS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAST AKRON NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS WORKFORCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE PROMISE CENTER OF HOMEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds The Greenwood Plan ↗
- Who funds MOTHER SETON HOUSE 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: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · Upmc Group · The George Gund Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Eqt 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 Dollar Bank 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.
- Maryland Casa Association Inc — 60% of income from government
- Casa of Western Maryland Inc — 51% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- 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.