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J & M Didonato Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

J & M Didonato Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$597kHealth$237kFood & Nutrition$230kHuman Services$203kEducation$124kHousing & Shelter$108kYouth Development$88kRecreation & Sports$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRY BONES MINISTRIES$52,037
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN NEW YORK$5,025
ALL STARS PROJECT OF CHICAGO$5,000
ANN AND ROBERT LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,500
ST AIDEN CATHOLIC PARISH$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PA$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY GUIDANCE: $5k → 9%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $15k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $5k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $5k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $5k → 11%FAMILYLINKS INC: $1k → 11%FAMILYLINKS INC: $1k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%THE WOODLAND FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%THE WOODLAND FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%THE WOODLAND FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%THE WOODLAND FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%BIRTHRIGHT OF PITTSBURGH INC: $4k → 11%BIRTHRIGHT OF PITTSBURGH INC: $2k → 11%BIRTHRIGHT OF PITTSBURGH INC: $2k → 11%WOMENS CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%WOMENS CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CT
CO
VA
SC
OK
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 40 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
23

Total granted

$1.8M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+32%

Still filing today

55%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    5× · 2019–2025 · $298k · revenue +139%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +91%
  • LO
    LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • P
    PREAMBULA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • VV
    VAN VICKLES FIGHT WITH CANCER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
3
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
5
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
6
Save the Children Federation Inc

Save the children is an international nonprofit children's relief and development organization. our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

International
7
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
8
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
9
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
10
The Wichita Children's Home

To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…

Human Services
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation

Children's hospital of pittsburgh foundation is the sole fundraising arm of upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh.the foundation exists to provide financial support for the hospital's mission of improving the health and well-being of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Familylinks Inc; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST AIDEN CATHOLIC PARISH: $120,300 · OtherST AIDEN CATHOLIC PARISHAQUINAS ACADEMY: $114,500 · OtherAQUINAS ACADEMYCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $84,800 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESIndividual grant recipient: $77,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $66,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POORVISION FOR LIFE: $50,000 · OtherVISION FOR LIFEST ANTHONY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherTHE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Other+33 more: $219,250 · Other+33 moreDRY BONES MINISTRIES: $297,500 · ReligionDRY BONES MINISTRI…LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE M…GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS OF PITT…JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE ASSOCIA…WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesWOODLANDS FOUND…FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY GUIDANCE…WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $19,000 · Human Services+4 moreGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $215,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTS…PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS DBA NETWORK OF LIFE: $60,000 · HealthPREGNANCY…Dawn M Gideon Foundation: $35,000 · HealthDawn M Gi…CHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES: $30,000 · HealthCHOICES P…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $22,500 · HealthAMERICAN …+3 more: $12,500 · Health+3 moreUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $51,875 · Recreation & SportsTulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc: $15,000 · EducationIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $2,000 · EducationHFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS: $1,000 · Education
Other$862,050Religion$297,500Human Services$256,500Food & Nutrition$215,000Health$160,000Recreation & Sports$51,875Education$23,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDRY BONES MINISTRIES: $297,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $215,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $66,000 over 8y, 93% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTERS DBA NETWORK OF LIFE: $60,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $51,875 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGENESIS OF PITTSBURGH INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetJUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetDawn M Gideon Foundation: $35,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetCHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTULSA CHARITY FIGHT NIGHT INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF PITTSBURGH: $8,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $6,075 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK: $5,025 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HONORABLE TINA BROZMAN FDTN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILYLINKS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEKIMA PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds DRY BONES MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS DBA NETWORK OF LIFE ↗
  • Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Dawn M Gideon Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TULSA CHARITY FIGHT NIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The United Way of Sou…The Pittsburgh Founda…Eqt FoundationUsher Family Foundati…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…The Jack Buncher Foun…Upmc GroupAllegheny FoundationHillman Family Founda…Peter C Dozzi Family …Clapp G H Decd Char a…
The United Way of Southwestern PennsylvaniaPA31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Usher Family Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Upmc Group · Allegheny Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation Aka Eugene Dozzi Charitable Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J & M Didonato Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J & M Didonato Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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