How much did J & M DIDONATO FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of J & M DIDONATO FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

generalgeneralchildrenswomens

2019

chicagochildrens

2020

childrenscatholic

2021

catholic

2022

catholic

2023

catholic

2024

catholic

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $47k
$10k–50k5 grants · $71k
$50k–250k1 grant · $205k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

DRY BONES MINISTRIES$205,463
ST AIDEN CATHOLIC PARISH$31,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
TULSA REGIONAL STEM ALLIANCE$10,000
LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION$10,000
AQUINAS ACADEMY$10,000
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH$8,000
CHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES$5,000
GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH$5,000
SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELSIST$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH$5,000
JUBILEE ASSOCIATION$5,000
PEYTON WALTERS FOUNDATION$5,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.7M · 40 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+100%

Still filing today

33%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyReligionRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

DB
DRY BONES MINISTRIES
4× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +139%
GP
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +65%
USTA FOUNDATION
2× · 2019–2020 · $52k · revenue +60%

Funded once

P
PREAMBULA
one grant, 2021 · $10k
F
FOCUS
one grant, 2022 · $8k
PW
PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1038%

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.

Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services

Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio

Provides educational guidance and medical services in the area of family planning.

Health

Pregnancy Justice Inc

Pregnancy justice fights to protect pregnant people's rights by defending those who have been criminalized or who face other rights violations because of pregnancy, focusing on those most likely to be targeted for state control based on…

Civil Rights

The Human Choice of Iowa

Provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education.

Human Services

The Parent-Infant Center

Support parenting by enabling children to grow & learn in a safe, stimulating, loving environment.

Human Services

Catapult Greater Pittsburgh

Catapult engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer to peer support, wealth building, trauma informed financial counseling & policy advocacy to ensure that communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice & lead…

Community Improvement

Pediatric Physician Services Inc

Provide healthcare services by pediatric specialty physicians

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Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh

The organization provides a balanced education that emphasizes both academic achievement and spiritual growth within the context of authentic jewish values.

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The Philadelphia School

See schedule o the philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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Human Life Services Inc

Human Life Services is a life affirming Christ-centered pregnancy care organization serving York through medical services, peer counseling, education and community referrals.

Civil Rights

Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

To provide health care system management and support

Health

Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc

To enable all marylanders to have access to a wide range of affordable reproductive healthcare

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House and the most unlike its peers is Dry Bones Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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%0/22

the rest of the field

12%

5,024/42,478

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.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/18

Grantees still filing

15/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,104,525Religion$245,463Food & Nutrition$190,000Human Services$119,000Recreation & Sports$51,875Health$30,000Education$23,000Philanthropy$6,000

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.

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern · Usher Family Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Eqt Foundation · Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment 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 organisation J & M DIDONATO FAMILY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DRY BONES MINISTRIES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833114929 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DRY BONES MINISTRIES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to J & M Didonato Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to J & M Didonato Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

J & M DIDONATO FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to J & M Didonato Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

J & M DIDONATO FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to J & M Didonato Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph