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Ganassi Foundation at a glance

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Ganassi Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$160kHealth$132kArts & Culture$95kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kAnimals$17kEnvironment$10kRecreation & Sports$5kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY$20,000
ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK$10,000
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM$5,000
INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM$5,000
MAYO CLINIC$5,000
PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUN$5,000
MOTORSPORTS HALL OF FAME OF AMERICA$5,000
PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM$5,000
VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $5k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $10k → 9%PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE: $5k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA: $12k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%PETERSON AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MOTORSPORTS HALL OF FAME OF AMERICA: $5k → 12%INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM: $5k → 16%MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $5k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $10k → 9%CHESTNUT RIDGE COMMUNITY VFD: $5k → 10%FOX CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA: $10k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET CTY: $2k → 14%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MORTORSPORTS HALL OF FAME OF AMERIC: $5k → 12%INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM: $5k → 16%MAYO CLINIC DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 9%FOX CHAPEL AREA LAND TRUST: $10k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $10k → 9%MAYO CLINIC: $5k → 9%MAYO CLINIC: $5k → 9%ACTION FOR ANIMALS: $2k → 10%THE BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 11%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%BOROUGH OF LIGONIER: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES FREE HEALTH: $10k → 11%PITTSBURGH CIVIC LIGHT OPERA: $2k → 11%PITTSBURGH CIVIC LIGHT OPERA: $2k → 11%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTS & LETTERS: $5k → 11%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTS & LETTERS: $5k → 11%ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $10k → 11%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 10%PITTSBURGH HISTORY AND: $10k → 11%PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARK FOUND: $10k → 11%PITTSBURGH HISTORY AND: $7k → 11%PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUN: $5k → 11%PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FD: $5k → 11%PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUN: $5k → 11%PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUN: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Ganassi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 72%.

Ganassi Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$325k · 21 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
29

Total granted

$325k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+44%

Still filing today

48%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DU
    DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • PA
    PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +215%
  • FC
    Fox Chapel Area Land Trust
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -96%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

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,…

Animals
2
Humane Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
3
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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4
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

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.

Animals
5
Carnegie Institute

To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.

Arts & Culture
6
Humane Pennsylvania

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.

Animals
7
Association for Public Art

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Lancaster General Health Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
9
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

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.

Health
10
University of Pittsburgh

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…

Education
11
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
12
Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Health Care Center Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $32,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYVariety the Childrens Charity: $30,000 · OtherVariety the Childrens CharityFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA: $22,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIAALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $21,000 · OtherALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORKIndividual grant recipient: $18,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTS AND LETTERS: $10,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH CIVIC LIGHT OPERA: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherFox Chapel Area Land Trust: $10,000 · Other+29 more: $51,000 · Other+29 moreDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $100,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF T…GANNON UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthPITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH HI…PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTO…MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL INSTR…PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH BA…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureACTION FOR ANIMALS INC: $8,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $4,000 · AnimalsAnimal Friends Inc: $2,000 · AnimalsChestnut Ridge Community VFD: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$224,500Education$104,000Health$71,000Arts & Culture$56,000Animals$14,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity: $30,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFox Chapel Area Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetACTION FOR ANIMALS INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChestnut Ridge Community VFD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLATROBE ART CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUTUAL AID AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Fox Chapel Area Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds ACTION FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Chestnut Ridge Community VFD ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LATROBE ART CENTER INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…The United Way of Sou…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA24.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ganassi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ganassi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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