· Private foundation
Fisa 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $903k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $546k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISABILITY LEAD | $125,000 |
| GWEN'S GIRLS INC | $75,000 |
| KEYSTONE PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND | $66,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY (POWER) | $60,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $60,000 |
| EDUCATION LAW CENTER | $60,000 |
| ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA | $50,000 |
| AUTISM CONNECTION OF PA | $46,350 |
| RYAN SHAZIER FUND FOR SPINAL REHABILITATION | $45,000 |
| 412 JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $40,000 |
| CASA SAN JOSE | $40,000 |
| EAST SUBURBAN CITIZEN ADVOCACY | $35,000 |
| WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT | $35,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 10% of those 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
101 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- POPENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY7× · 2019–2025 · $361k · revenue +112%
Education Law Center - PA7× · 2018–2025 · $360k · revenue +199%- EEEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY6× · 2018–2024 · $355k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- PPPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -10%
- ACALLEGHENY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $50k
- WLWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT - WESTERN PA OFFICEone grant, 2018 · $40k
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 provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.
The organization advocates with, empowers, and supports people with disabilities and their families throughout their lives.
Vibrant pittsburgh's mission is to accelerate the business community toward equitable, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, creating a future-forward region.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the
To use our collective power and legal mandate to develop and secure public policies that ensure civil rights and expand options for all people with disabilities in all aspects of life.
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.
An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.
Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Aac Institute Fka International. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
144 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. 144 of the 185 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 THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds Gwens Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LEAD ↗
- Who funds AUTISM CONNECTION OF PA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SISTERS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds East Suburban Citizen Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BLACKBURN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds AUTISM URBAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONAL PATHS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds Consumer Health Coalition ↗
- Who funds THE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Pittsburghers for Public Transit ↗
- Who funds HELLO NEIGHBOR ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION - LIVING STONES 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 · The Heinz Endowments · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Upmc Group · Jefferson Regional Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Buhl 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 Fisa 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.