· Private foundation
Ganassi 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $5,000 |
| MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY | $5,000 |
| MOTORSPORTS HALL OF FAME OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUN | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Ganassi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 72% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 91% 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
- DUDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +20%
- CTCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +10%
- PAPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +215%
- FCFox Chapel Area Land Trustone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -96%
- CRChestnut Ridge Community VFDone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -46%
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.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
We strive to provide all aspects of care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals; reunite lost pets with their caregivers or seek new families for them; educate the community on humane care and interactions with all animals with the…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
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.
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
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.
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
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…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
The central pennsylvania blood bank (cpbb) is a community based blood program committed to providing a quality blood supply, responsive to community needs, in a cost effective manner. cpbb works to promote, secure, and coordinate 100% of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Health Care Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Birmingham Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 53 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 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fox Chapel Area Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Ridge Community VFD ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM 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 · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ganassi 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.