· Private foundation
Edwin and Kathryn Clarke Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra | $10,000 |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $5,000 |
| University of Pittsburgh | $5,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $4,000 |
| 412 Food Rescue | $3,250 |
| Timeline Theatre Company | $3,000 |
| Refugee One | $2,500 |
| Sewickley Valley Community Fund | $2,000 |
| Acorn Theater | $2,000 |
| The Neighborhood Academy | $2,000 |
| Family Resources | $2,000 |
| Bethlehem Haven | $2,000 |
| Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy | $1,500 |
| Grow Pittsburgh | $1,000 |
| City Theatre | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $25k) 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- PSPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $82k · revenue +51%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +76%
- POPITTSBURGH OPERA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +151%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- RIRescue Incone grant, 2020 · $2k
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 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,…
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
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)
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…
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…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Working in partnership with low-income elderly homeowners, veterans, and individuals with disabilities, their families, volunteers and community residents, we work to preserve and revitalize houses thus providing a community impact.…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
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.
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grandanse Health & Development Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 33 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 SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Sewickley Public Library ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GRANDANSE HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SEWICKLEY CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Sewickley Valley Community Fund ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE THEATER COMPANY ↗
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 Peirce Family Foundation Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Wi Patterson Charitable Fund · Allegheny Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Jack Buncher 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 Edwin and Kathryn Clarke 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.
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.