· Private foundation
Fred J and Shirley H Jordan Foundation
Its FY2026 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $638k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY LIVING AND SUPPORT | $60,000 |
| AUTISM URBAN CONNECTIONS INC | $55,000 |
| WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| AUDOBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA | $50,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE OF PITTSBURGH | $50,000 |
| LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER | $45,000 |
| KINDRED SPIRITS RESCUE RANCH | $40,000 |
| NEXTSTEP PITTSBURGH | $35,000 |
| CASA SAN JOSE | $35,000 |
| PRESSLEY RIDGE | $32,500 |
| WESTERN PA DIAPER BANK | $30,000 |
| GRAY PAWS SANCTUARY | $30,000 |
| LEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| 412 FOOD RESCUE | $30,000 |
| EVOLVE COACHING | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2026, 22 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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
- HAHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE9× · 2018–2026 · $765k · revenue +32%
412 FOOD RESCUE INC6× · 2018–2026 · $455k · revenue +103%- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK3× · 2018–2020 · $400k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- ARANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PAone grant, 2017 · $275k
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2017 · $150k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.
To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.
To recruit and train community members to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.
Provide programs to help individuals and/or families achieve self-sufficiency.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
To provide services to homeless animals
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
The spca of pittsylvania county is committed to rescuing adoptable animals from impoundment and euthanasia, so they can be placed in proper homes. this is acheived primarily through vetting, fostering, and placing the animals in their…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Kindred Spirits Rescue Ranch. 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 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 1% 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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 74 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 AUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds VISABILITY ↗
- Who funds AUTISM URBAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds THE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS ACROSS PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GRAY PAWS SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR VICTIMS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds MACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & DEAF SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Kindred Spirits Rescue Ranch ↗
- Who funds Gwens Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STONEYBROOK FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation · Fisa Foundation · Jefferson Regional Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm 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 Fred J and Shirley H Jordan 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.