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Highmark Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19M
Granted FY2024still arriving
313
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$37MPhilanthropy$5.1MEducation$4.5MYouth Development$3.5MFood & Nutrition$2.0MHuman Services$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.4MEmployment$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 313 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k154 grants · $695k
  • $10k–50k71 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k74 grants · $6.0M
  • $250k+14 grants · $10M
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$101M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Project Destiny Inc$500,000
CAMC Health Education and Research Institute 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
Allegheny Health Network$250,000
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Inc$250,000
West Virginia United Health System Inc$250,000
The Advanced Leadership Institute$200,000
02The need
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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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOM-n-PA: $98k → 8%Mission of Mercy Inc: $55k → 9%Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley: $50k → 11%Casa San Jose: $50k → 11%Buffalo Urban League Inc: $60k → 13%Raleigh County Community Action Association Inc: $75k → 20%Mission of Mercy Inc: $30k → 6%MOM-n-PA: $75k → 8%Mission of Mercy: $15k → 9%Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley: $50k → 11%One Voice Inc: $50k → 25%Mission of Mercy Inc: $30k → 6%MOM-n-PA: $50k → 8%Family Life Center: $59k → 10%Raleigh County Community Action Association: $45k → 20%Virginia Dental Association Foundation: $38k → 9%MOM-n-PA: $50k → 8%Water Street Ministries: $30k → 9%Florence Crittenton Programs Inc: $50k → 15%United Way of the Greenbrier Valley: $3k → 18%Virginia Dental Association Foundation: $35k → 9%MOM-n-PA: $25k → 8%Golden Girl Group Home: $45k → 18%United Way of the Greenbrier Valley: $3k → 18%Virginia Dental Association Foundation: $35k → 9%PA Coalition for Oral Health: $15k → 10%United Way of the Greenbrier Valley: $3k → 18%West Virginia 211 Inc: $50k → 18%Latino Connection Foundation LLC: $70k → 12%Childrens Home Society of WV: $26k → 18%Faith in Action Caregivers Inc: $10k → 15%Pennsylvania Coalition for Oral Health: $10k → 8%The Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh Inc: $100k → 11%Employment Opportunity Training Center of NEPA: $50k → 13%A GIFT OF SMILES: $10k → 12%The Sight Center of Northwest Pennsylvania: $40k → 15%Pittsburgh Minority Business Accelerator: $40k → 11%MAYA Organization: $50k → 11%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Inc: $250k → 11%Women Empowereed for Entrepreneurial Excellence: $50k → 11%Pittsburgh Minority Business Accelerator: $160k → 11%The Bradley Center: $10k → 11%Bethany Community Ministries: $78k → 11%Bethany Community Ministries: $50k → 11%Mt Ararat Community Activity Center: $25k → 11%Mt Ararat Community Activity Center: $25k → 11%Latino Community Center: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MT
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Highmark Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 75%.

Highmark Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 145 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145
221

Total granted

$35M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+10%

Still filing today

81%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • WV
    West Virginia United Health System Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +81%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $600k · revenue +2%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $410k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AU
    AHN Uncompensated Care Program
    one grant, 2023 · $5.0M
  • AH
    Allegheny Health Network-Cardiac Electrophysiology
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • AH
    Allegheny Health Network - First Steps Pittsburgh
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
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
Community Care of West Virginia Inc

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…

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2
Valley Comprehensive Community Health Center Inc

Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.

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3
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

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.

Health
4
Rural Health Corporation of Northeastern Pennsylvania

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…

Health
5
River Valley Health

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…

Health
6
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

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.

Health
7
Upmc Williamsport

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…

Health
8
Mountaineer Community Health Center

To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.

Health
9
Pocono Health System

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.

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10
Shenandoah Valley Medical System I

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.

Health
11
Newark Community Health Centers Inc

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…

Health
12
Muskingum Valley Health Center

To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Health Partners Community Health Center; 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.
05the grantee network

272 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. 272 of the 544 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.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
265/272
Grantees still filing
167/272
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Allegheny Health Network: $13,517,000 · OtherAllegheny Health NetworkAHN Uncompensated Care Program: $5,000,000 · OtherAHN Uncompensated Care ProgramSchool Grants - Western & Central PA & WV: $1,277,410 · Other+82 more: $11,343,847 · Other+82 moreWest Virginia United Health System Inc: $1,050,000 · HealthWest Virginia United…American Heart Association Inc: $410,000 · HealthEAST LIBERTY FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $400,000 · HealthADAGIO HEALTH INC: $343,000 · Health+67 more: $7,531,946 · Health+67 moreTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $2,800,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $600,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $364,500 · PhilanthropyPROJECT DESTINY INC: $3,100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $200,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMC HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,100,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH: $200,000 · EducationNew York University: $167,700 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $150,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · Education+4 more: $225,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $298,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $250,000 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH MINORITY BUSINESS ACCELERATOR: $200,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OF MERCY INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesBETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $127,500 · Human ServicesRALEIGH COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $107,500 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesLATINO CONNECTION FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human Services+10 more: $518,750 · Human ServicesThe Advanced Leadership Institute Inc: $1,400,000 · Public BenefitMANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION: $250,000 · Public Benefit
Other$31,138,257Health$9,734,946Philanthropy$3,764,500Youth Development$3,350,000Education$2,692,700Human Services$2,021,750Public Benefit$1,650,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetPROJECT DESTINY INC: $3,100,000 over 5y, 51% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $2,800,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetThe Advanced Leadership Institute Inc: $1,400,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetCAMC HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,100,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWest Virginia United Health System Inc: $1,050,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $600,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $410,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST LIBERTY FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $400,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetADAGIO HEALTH INC: $343,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetProject Build Em Up: $333,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetTEAMSMILE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $298,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetA CALL TO CARE INC: $277,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $275,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCaring Foundation: $250,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION: $250,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREE CLINIC ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA: $222,700 over 2y, 72% of budgetUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION: $204,393 over 4y, 12% of budgetPITTSBURGH MINORITY BUSINESS ACCELERATOR: $200,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH: $200,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC: $200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPrimary Care Health Services Inc: $195,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH SIDE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $190,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION: $185,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetCENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $184,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetFACE2FACE HEALING INC: $181,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetNew York University: $167,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC: $165,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetLILY'S PLACE INC: $163,306 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLGBT CENTER OF GREATER READING: $160,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $156,960 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC: $155,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA GIVING HEART: $150,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDS HEALTH: $150,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL: $146,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT: $142,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA BREAST HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $140,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOVP HEALTH CARE INC: $130,000 over 1y, 6.7% 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.

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.

Delta Dental Communit…Bernard McDonough Fou…The United Way of Sou…The Pittsburgh Founda…Claude Worthington Be…Firstenergy FoundationEncova Foundation of …Richard King Mellon F…Upmc GroupThe Grable FoundationTruist West Virginia …Staunton Farm Foundat…
Delta Dental Community Care FoundationCA55.6× affinity33 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Highmark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Highmark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
71report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Highmark Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Highmark Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 544 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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