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Hillman Family Foundations
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 $10k187 grants · $561k
- $10k–50k366 grants · $6.9M
- $50k–250k189 grants · $19M
- $250k+72 grants · $62M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTETHE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM | $5,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE | $3,000,000 |
| EYE & EAR FOUNDATION INC | $3,000,000 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTETHE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM | $3,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $2,000,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND | $2,000,000 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTECARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $2,000,000 |
| CARLOW UNIVERSITY | $2,000,000 |
| RIDC REGIONAL GROWTH FUND | $2,000,000 |
| THE PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES | $2,000,000 |
| INNOVATEPGH PARTNERSHIP | $1,750,000 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTETHE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM | $1,500,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER | $1,500,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC | $1,400,000 |
| THREE RIVERS MOTHERS MILK BANK | $1,400,000 |
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, $36.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
778 repeat relationships — 460 still active in FY2024, 318 since wound down; 151 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.8M 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
- CMCarnegie Mellon University5× · 2020–2024 · $26M · revenue +35%
- EAEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $25M · revenue +158% · 69% of their budget
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2020–2024 · $16M · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CLCINNAIRE LENDING CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +52% · 39% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTEDBA UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $3.0M
- RORIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue +73% · 47% of their budget
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.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
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…
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.
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Christophers Kitchen. 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 29 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 3% 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.
1194 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. 1194 of the 1,374 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 Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CINNAIRE LENDING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INNOVATEPGH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MON VALLEY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Primary Care Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RISING TIDE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds NEW SUN RISING ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD ↗
- Who funds The Greenwood Plan ↗
- Who funds POISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEEL CITY SQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS MOTHERS MILK BANK D/B/A MID-ATLANTIC MOTHERS' MILK BANK ↗
- Who funds Catapult Greater Pittsburgh ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE RIDC REGIONAL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH MINORITY BUSINESS ACCELERATOR ↗
- Who funds TRWIB INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP ↗
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 Heinz Endowments · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Buhl Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Fine 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 Hillman Family Foundations 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.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% 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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