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First Forty-Four Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
80% of First Forty-Four Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Pittsburgh, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year First Forty-Four Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $16k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| PERSAD CENTER | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| ALLIES FOR HEALTH & WELLBEING | $700 |
| YAD ELIEZER WAR RELIEF FUND | $575 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $500 |
| JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND | $500 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $360 |
| MIRIAM SCHOOL | $250 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 11% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- PAPA Alliance Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +118%
- PCPERSAD CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +56%
- JRJEWISH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC3× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FPFILM PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +30%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- HFHEBREW FREE LOANone grant, 2022 · $529
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.
To respond, educate, and advocate to end sexual violence.
To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…
To maintain and foster the jewish traditions of family purity through the operation of a ritularium.
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 world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
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)
Pittsburgh regional healthcare initiative's goal is to provide clinicians and institutions with the training and tools to dramatically improve patient safety, healthcare quality and the cost reimbursement system through reductions in…
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
To help individuals and families meet life's challenges. jewish family service is a forward-thinking mental health and social service agency dedicated to helping people achieve their full potential while honoring choice, diversity, and…
Strengthening families by restoring the traditional, foundational principles and values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc and the most unlike its peers is All Faiths Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PA Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds PERSAD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds FILM PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION ↗
- Who funds ALLIES FOR HEALTH WELLBEING ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Allegheny County ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds LIVING IN LIBERTY ↗
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 Fine Foundation · David S Shapira Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Hillman Family Foundations · Fourteen Ten Foundation · Richard and Dana Green Philanthropic Foundation · Cooper E Etal Ttees C-S Fam Fdn-Agy · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Opportunity 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 First Forty-Four 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.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% 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.
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