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Highmark Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k154 grants · $695k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k74 grants · $6.0M
- $250k+14 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Allegheny Health Network | $5,000,000 |
| United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania | $700,000 |
| United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania | $650,000 |
| Project Destiny Inc | $650,000 |
| Allegheny Health Network | $600,000 |
| CAMC Health Education and Research Institute Inc | $500,000 |
| Project Destiny Inc | $500,000 |
| Allegheny Health Network | $300,000 |
| United Way of Capital Region | $300,000 |
| Allegheny Health Network | $250,000 |
| West Virginia United Health System Inc | $250,000 |
| West Virginia United Health System Inc | $250,000 |
| Allegheny Health Network | $250,000 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Inc | $250,000 |
| The Advanced Leadership Institute | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Highmark 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, 80% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 75% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
145 repeat relationships — 108 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 174 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M 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
- WVWest Virginia United Health System Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +81%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION2× · 2021–2022 · $600k · revenue +2%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $410k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- AUAHN Uncompensated Care Programone grant, 2023 · $5.0M
- AHAllegheny Health Network-Cardiac Electrophysiologyone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- AHAllegheny Health Network - First Steps Pittsburghone grant, 2021 · $500k
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 mission of ccwv is to help our communities live the healthiest lives possible by meeting their immediate and long-term healthcare needs. this mission is accomplished by providing high quality, accessible, comprehensive, culturally…
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
Rhc's health centers provide comprehensive medical and dental care to individuals throughout northeastern pennsylvania. primary care services include pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric medicine; diagnostic evaluations; treatment…
Our mission is to build health and bridge gaps by providing comprehensive, quality healthcare. river valley health is located in the center of williamsport pennsylvania with a branch in lock haven pa. we serve residents of the greater…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
To promote health and wellness within the community by providing a medical home to reduce barriers to care and ensure access to a full range of coordinated health care and wellness services.
The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Health Partners Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is The Wing 2 Wing Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
272 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. 272 of the 544 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PROJECT DESTINY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Advanced Leadership Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMC HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds West Virginia United Health System Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST LIBERTY FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADAGIO HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Project Build Em Up ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEAMSMILE INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A CALL TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Caring Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH MINORITY BUSINESS ACCELERATOR ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
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: Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Upmc Group · The Grable Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · 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 Highmark 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.
- La Red Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Westside Family Healthcare Inc — 48% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% 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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