· Private foundation
Federated Investors Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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: 70% of Federated Investors Foundation Inc’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.
The 59 grants below total $625,650 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $685,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Southwest Pennsylvania | $103,400 |
| Allegheny Conference on Community Development | $100,000 |
| Americans United for Life | $45,000 |
| Oakland Catholic High School | $35,000 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Pittsburgh | $25,000 |
| The Becket Fund | $25,000 |
| St. Vincent College (Benedictine Society of Westmoreland) | $25,000 |
| Historical Society of W. PA - Heinz History Center | $20,000 |
| CCAC Workforce Development Facility | $20,000 |
| Pittsburgh Opera | $20,000 |
| Family House | $10,500 |
| World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh | $10,000 |
| Allegheny Health Network | $10,000 |
| University of Pgh- (Pittsburgh's Tomorrow Project) | $10,000 |
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (PGH Trust for Cultural Resources) | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) 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.
36 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 23 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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
- AUAmericans United for Life Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +10%
- TBThe Becket Fund2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +2%
- POPITTSBURGH OPERA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ACAllegheny Conference on Coione grant, 2023 · $163k
- PPPittsburgh Public Theatreone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AAAlzheimer's Association - Greater Pgh. Chapterone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 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…
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.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The mission of the pa aap is to promote the equitable health and well-being of all pennsylvania children. as experts in pediatric healthcare, we are committed to fostering collaboration among pediatricians, families, and community partners…
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mentoring Partnership of Sw Pa and the most unlike its peers is Delaware County Detachment Marine Corps League 288. 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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 75 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 ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Americans United for Life Inc ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT COMMUNICATIONINC ↗
- Who funds CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA ↗
- Who funds THE NAPA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY BRASS BAND INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISABILITY ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC YOUTH ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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 United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Upmc Group · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · Hillman Family Foundations · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Buhl 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 Federated Investors Foundation Inc 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.