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Honkus-Zollinger Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $12,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB | $6,000 |
| PEDIATRIC VICTORY FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| PARENTIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| THE KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $4,000 |
| PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| DIOCESE OF GREENSBURG | $3,000 |
| PINE RICHLAND UNIFIED BOOSTER ORGANIZATION | $3,000 |
| PHIPPS CONSERVATORY | $3,000 |
| FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP FIRE COMPANY | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
47 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 14 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- HAHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +37%
- PCPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +14%
- LVLIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIA ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- SSSVG SPORTS BROADCASTING FUNDone grant, 2019 · $6k
- CCCOCKTAILS & COUTURE FOR A CAUSE PITTSBURGHone grant, 2019 · $5k
- COCITY OF LOWER BURRELLone grant, 2021 · $4k
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…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The pittsburgh venture capital association was founded in 1982 to catalyze venture investment and entrepreneurialism in western pennsylvania. since then it has become the leading voice of private equity investors in the region.through a…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The historical society of western pennsylvania is an educational institution that engages and inspires a large and inclusive audience with links to the past, understanding in the present, and guidance for the future by preserving regional…
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
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…
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 Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the most unlike its peers is Kiskiminetas Water Shed Asso. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 85 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 HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC VICTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds QUAKER VALLEY WRESTLING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PARENTIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KISKIMINETAS WATER SHED ASSO ↗
- Who funds SVG SPORTS BROADCASTING FUND ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds Sigel Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds OLD JOE CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
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.
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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 Honkus-Zollinger Charitable 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% 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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