· Public charity
Highmark Health
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, Highmark Health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 48 grants below total $2,640,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,817,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $177,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k36 grants · $540k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $695k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY | $500,000 |
| ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK | $385,000 |
| THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION | $270,000 |
| COUNTY OF CATTARAUGUS | $250,000 |
| AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION OF ORLEANS & GENESEE | $125,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| JDRF INTERNATIONAL | $55,000 |
| TREE OF LIFE CONGREGATION | $50,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER | $45,000 |
| WILL ALLEN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 11 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $615k 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
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +62%- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +50%
- SCSTEELWORKERS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION3× · 2020–2022 · $210k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- ECERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER CORPone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
- BCBuffalo Center For Health EquityIncone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INCone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -36%
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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.
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Medical Oncology Associates Prescription Assistance Fund. 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 41 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
161 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. 161 of the 190 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 THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Center For Health EquityInc ↗
- Who funds THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEELWORKERS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLEAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds CARSON SCHOLARS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH CARE MGMT RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds TROCAIRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds South End Childrens Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF ORLEANS AND GENESEE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
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 · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Upmc Group · Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · Poise Foundation · The Grable Foundation · McAuley Ministries · Eqt Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Pittsburgh Penguins 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 Health 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.
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% 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.