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Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting wellness in our communities, one person at a time.

$573k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$2.8MCommunity Improvement$506kArts & Culture$369kEducation$212kPublic Benefit$197kHousing & Shelter$190kHuman Services$82kPhilanthropy$72kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $233,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $573,278 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $340,028 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

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$62,500
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC$30,000
ERIE REGIONAL CHAMBER AND GROWTH PARTNERSHIP$30,000
VETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF WPA INC$25,500
GOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PA$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$15,000
A GLIMMER OF HOPE INC$15,000
GROVE CITY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$9,750
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$8,000
CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC$6,000
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC$6,000
GROVE CITY COLLEGE$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Open Door Inc: $110k → 11%The Open Door: $55k → 11%Center that CARES: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 49 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
37

Total granted

$3.2M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+46%

Still filing today

92%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $391k · revenue +33%
  • BS
    BIKE SHARE PITTSBURGH INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $271k · revenue +56%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    6× · 2017–2022 · $238k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • HH
    HIGHMARK HEALTH
    one grant, 2017 · $696k
  • CU
    CARLOW UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +65%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
    one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue +21%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Pittsburgh Business Group On Health

An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.

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2
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
3
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
4
Allegheny Conference On Community Development

See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…

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5
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
6
Point Park University

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…

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7
Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce

The greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (gpcc) is the advocacy affiliate of the allegheny conference on community development (accd). (continued on sch o) the chamber works to improve the competitiveness of the pittsburgh region for…

Community Improvement
8
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

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…

Health
9
World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.

International
10
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…

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11
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.

Health
12
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

Phrma's mission is to conduct effective advocacy for public policies that encourage the discovery of important, new medicines for patients by biopharmaceutical research companies.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African American Chamber Foundation of Western Pa and the most unlike its peers is Cultures Arts Festivals and Events of Erie. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisease Research FoundationsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Classical Music EnsemblesSupportive Housing & Servic…Charitable Trusts and Found…Professional Membership Ass…Pittsburgh Community Develo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr12%35%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/90
the rest of the field
12%
5,236/42,290

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.

04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
49/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

American Heart Association Inc — $390,750 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $237,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DPREVENTION POINT PITTSBURGH — $160,000 · HealthPREVENTION POINT PITTSBURGHAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $113,250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $85,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $82,500 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $79,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $77,500 · Health+19 more — $509,310 · Health+19 moreHIGHMARK HEALTH — $695,714 · OtherHIGHMARK HEALTHCITY OF PITTSBURGH — $197,000 · OtherCITY OF PITTSBURGH+37 more — $909,144 · Other+37 moreBIKE SHARE PITTSBURGH INC — $270,833 · Community ImprovementERIE REGIONAL CHAMBER AND GROWTH PARTNERSHIP — $30,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $17,500 · Community ImprovementCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCultures Arts Festivals and Events of Erie — $75,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC — $36,000 · Arts & CultureBEMUS BAY POPS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $27,500 · Arts & CultureFlagship Niagara League — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe Open Door Inc — $165,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER THAT CARES — $25,000 · Human ServicesWESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyMonroeville Foundation Inc — $51,500 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $7,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $7,240 · PhilanthropyCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $11,000 · EducationEDINBORO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PA — $10,000 · EducationMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · EducationEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Education
Health$1,735,310Other$1,801,858Community Improvement$318,333Arts & Culture$308,500Human Services$190,000Philanthropy$166,240Education$146,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $390,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIKE SHARE PITTSBURGH INC — $270,833 over 2y, 13% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $237,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $113,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $82,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $79,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $77,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCultures Arts Festivals and Events of Erie — $75,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $52,544 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDR GERTRUDE A BARBER FOUNDATION INC — $50,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $50,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVER ALLIANCE — $47,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC — $46,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA — $46,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $42,600 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH THREE RIVERS MARATHON INC — $42,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetA GLIMMER OF HOPE INC — $41,250 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $40,760 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH NORTH REGIONAL CHAMBER INC — $38,050 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC — $36,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALEXIS JOY D'ACHILLE FOUNDATION FOR POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION — $30,500 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetBEMUS BAY POPS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetERIE REGIONAL CHAMBER AND GROWTH PARTNERSHIP — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $26,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER THAT CARES — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGROVE CITY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $25,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetASBURY WOODS PARTNERSHIP INC — $21,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN ADDICTION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPRESQUE ISLE PARTNERSHIP INC — $20,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlagship Niagara League — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDELTA FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY DISTRICT 7300 FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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.

Upmc GroupThe Pittsburgh Founda…Erie Community Founda…Wabtec FoundationThe United Way of Sou…Richard King Mellon F…The Heinz EndowmentsM J Surgala TrHighmark HealthFirstenergy FoundationPittsburgh Penguins F…Staunton Farm Foundat…
Upmc GroupPA55.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Upmc Group · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · M J Surgala Tr · Highmark Health · Firstenergy Foundation · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · 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 Health Group 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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