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Elizabeth Shiras Tw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$180kYouth Development$141kHuman Services$116kReligion$45kArts & Culture$31kCommunity Improvement$30kCrime & Legal$25kScience & Tech$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS$23,983
CARRIAGE HOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER$15,000
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY$15,000
SERVANT STAGE COMPANY$10,000
PEOPLE AND STORIES - GENTE Y CUENTOS INC$8,209
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RUBYE'S KIDS INC: $3k → 7%CASA SAN JOSE: $20k → 11%CHRISTIAN LAYMANS CORPS: $8k → 10%WAYPOINT YOUTH AND COMMUNITY: $13k → 10%MOMMY'S IMAGINATION STATION INC: $15k → 11%WAYPOINT YOUTH AND COMMUNITY: $9k → 10%CARRIAGE HOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 11%MOMMY'S IMAGINATION STATION INC: $10k → 11%METHODIST UNION OF SOCIAL AGENCIES: $8k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $12k → 11%INDEPENDENT FAMILY RESOURCE GROUP: $10k → 11%OUTREACH TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$168k · 6 repeat orgs$461k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +272% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
29

Total granted

$168k
$413k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+272%
+23%

Still filing today

67%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementReligionPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
    2× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +272%
  • TC
    THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2022 · $28k · revenue +99%
  • MI
    MOMMYS IMAGINATION STATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +168%

Funded once

  • YS
    YESHIVA SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • AC
    ALLEGHENY COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • TK
    THE KISKI SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +27%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter

A charter school for k-5 whose mission is to help every child find a pathway to a successful adult life in the city and beyond.

Education
2
Community Day School

At community day school, we are committed to raising proud jews, confident leaders, and accomplished learners who value excellence and prioritize community. as educators, administrators, and staff, we hold ourselves to the highest ethical…

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3
Urban Pathways 6-12 Charter School

Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.

Education
4
Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania Charter School

To establish a unique, proactive alternative to traditional public education which provides an ideal international environment for the intellectual & social development of its students

Education
5
The Waldorf School of Pittsburgh

Waldorf school of pittsburgh fosters each child's capacity to become an independent thinking, compassionate, courageous, and purposeful human being.

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6
Angels Place Inc

The mission of Angels Place, Inc. is to provide exceptional family support and quality early childhood education to help parents in need and their children become lifelong learners and create a brighter future.

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7
Western Pennsylvania Montessori School

To provide a safe, secure, and nurturing atmosphere in which each child may develop and grow emotionally, socially, intellectually, and physically by receiving a well-rounded experience based on montessori philosophy.

Education
8
Young Scholars of Greater Allegheny Charter School

To establish a unique, proactive alternative to traditional public education which provides an ideal environment for the intellectual & social development of its students

Education
9
Kennett Square Preschool Cooperative

Preschool education for 3, 4 and 5 year old children in the kennett square, pennsylvania area

Education
10
Park Slope Schoolhouse Child Care Center Inc

Striving to create a caring, diverse, nurturing and stimulating child care environment that provides children the opportunity to grow at their own individual pace.

Human Services
11
Saint James School

St. james school is a faith-based philadelphia middle school in the episcopal tradition, committed to educating students from an under-resourced neighborhood within a nurturing environment. the school is a community that provides a…

Education
12
Shady Side Academy

Shady side academy offers an exceptional pre-k through twelfth grade academic and balanced educational experience by challenging each student to realize his or her potential in a stimulating and nurturing environment.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Impact Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sister Thea Bowman Black Catholic Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · OtherYESHIVA SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGHALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH SUPPORT: $42,500 · OtherALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH SUPPORTTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $27,838 · OtherTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATIONALLEGHENY COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS: $25,000 · OtherALLEGHENY COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEASPITTSBURGH CHAPTER NATIONAL TOOLING: $19,879 · OtherPITTSBURGH CHAPTER NATIONAL TOOLINGALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP: $17,500 · OtherALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIPBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE: $15,000 · OtherBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPEPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherPOINT PARK UNIVERSITYWESTMORELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12,800 · OtherANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $10,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN: $10,000 · OtherSISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $12,720 · OtherMOMMYS IMAGINATION STATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMOMMYS IMAGINATION STATION IN…WAYPOINT YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $21,046 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT YOUTH AND COMMUNITY …CASA SAN JOSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesCASA SAN JOSEURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATIONOutreach Teen and Family Services Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesOutreach Teen and Family Serv…CARRIAGE HOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCARRIAGE HOUSE CHILDREN'S CEN…NEW SUN RISING: $11,527 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISINGINDEPENDENT FAMILY RESOURCE GROUP: $10,000 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENT FAMILY RESOURCE G…THE CHRISTIAN LAYMANS CORPS: $8,495 · Human ServicesMaple Unified Student Academy Inc: $8,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $31,483 · EducationSTOREHOUSE FOR…THE KISKI SCHOOL: $22,884 · EducationTHE KISKI SCHO…Schools That Can: $15,000 · EducationSchools That C…HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationHOPE PARTNERSH…CONNECTING CHAMPIONS: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentTICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPittsburgh Botanic Garden: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION: $14,384 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION: $12,500 · Community ImprovementNATRONA COMES TOGETHER: $4,463 · Community ImprovementLAURELVILLE MENNONITE CHURCH CENTER: $15,000 · ReligionSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $12,807 · ReligionSERVANT STAGE COMPANY: $10,000 · Public BenefitPEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOS: $8,209 · Arts & Culture
Other$268,737Human Services$162,068Education$79,367Youth Development$41,000Community Improvement$31,347Religion$27,807Public Benefit$10,000Arts & Culture$8,209

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $31,483 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $27,838 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMOMMYS IMAGINATION STATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetTHE KISKI SCHOOL: $22,884 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAYPOINT YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $21,046 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOutreach Teen and Family Services Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSchools That Can: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCARRIAGE HOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAURELVILLE MENNONITE CHURCH CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION: $14,384 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $12,807 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12,800 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION: $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW SUN RISING: $11,527 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPittsburgh Botanic Garden: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDEPENDENT FAMILY RESOURCE GROUP: $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN LAYMANS CORPS: $8,495 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOS: $8,209 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMaple Unified Student Academy Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGlen Montessori School: $7,720 over 1y, 0.3% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF WESTERN PA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNATRONA COMES TOGETHER: $4,463 over 1y, 27% of budgetRUBYE'S KIDS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…The Grable FoundationThe Heinz EndowmentsRichard King Mellon F…The United Way of Sou…Staunton Farm Foundat…Hillman Family Founda…The Jack Buncher Foun…Eqt FoundationMcCune Foundation Pnc…McElhattan FoundationJewish Federation of …
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA50.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Eqt Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · McElhattan Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elizabeth Shiras Tw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Shiras Tw. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • People and Stories Gente Y Cuentos: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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