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J Samuel & Rose y Cox Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$489kHuman Services$218kPhilanthropy$68kEducation$52kArts & Culture$44kCommunity Improvement$11kCivil Rights$8kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$264k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PITTSBURGH$100,000
BLIND AND VISION REHABILITATION$20,000
THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH$9,346
SCIACCESS INC$7,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL: $20k → 7%REDSTON PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $15k → 10%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $19k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%REDSTON PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $15k → 10%SMALL SEEDS DEVELOPMENT INC: $10k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $23k → 11%RUTH'S WAY INC: $11k → 11%LOCALLY GROWN: $15k → 11%LOCALLY GROWN: $15k → 11%BLIND AND VISION REHABILITATION: $20k → 11%BLIND AND VISION REHABILITATION: $20k → 11%RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $15k → 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.

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$514k · 5 repeat orgs$576k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
34

Total granted

$514k
$459k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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 ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • EA
    EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $387k · revenue +326%
  • V
    VISABILITY
    2× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +43%
  • RP
    REDSTONE PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE
    2× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • SS
    SOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • DP
    DREAM PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +6%
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION
    one grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue -57%

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
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
2
Vision for Equality Inc

Vision for equality works each day to serve, support and empower individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families bringing to them the information and tools they need to create the life of meaning they want and to successfully…

Health
3
Mercy Life Center Corporation

We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…

Health
4
Mainstay Life Services

Individuals with developmental disabilities will live within a community that sustains them and benefits from their participation. mainstay life services will be regarded as the region's provider of choice for individuals and families…

Housing & Shelter
5
The Children's Institute Parent Company

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
6
Wesley Spectrum Services

To empower children, adults and families by providing transformational quality whole person care .

Human Services
7
United Cerebral Palsy of Central Pennsylvania

Ucp of central pennsylvania empowers people of diverse abilities to live meaningful life through innovative support and services.

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8
Vision Resources of Central Pennsylvania

Assist individuals who are blind and visually impaired to flourish within our communities and prevent blindness.

Health
9
Merakey Idd Philadelphia

The organization was formed to serve all functioning levels of individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities who reside primarily in the philadelphia metropolitan area. services provided include residential, outpatient and adult…

—
10
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
11
Dr Gertrude a Barber Center Inc

We "make dreams come true." we provide children and adults with autism, intellectual/developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges and their families the education, services and resources needed to be self-reliant,…

Human Services
12
Milestone Centers Inc

Milestone provides quality, life-enhancing services that promote wellness and the development of human potential to people with behavioral health and intellectual challenges. each year milestone serves approximately 3,500 residents of…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pressley Ridge and the most unlike its peers is Small Seeds Development Inc. 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 backsteadyCharitable Trusts and Found…Youth Development ProgramsProfessional & Collegiate A…Senior Affordable HousingSenior Supportive HousingHealth Systems and Medical …Christian Outreach ServicesYouth Sports LeaguesBehavioral Health & Recover…
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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr20%38%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%1%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr20%25%20–35yr16%45%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
8%
834/10,951

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

37 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. 37 of the 44 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION — $386,910 · HealthEYE AND EAR FOUNDATIONCANCER BRIDGES — $17,500 · Health+7 more — $84,500 · Health+7 moreLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF PITTSBURGH — $100,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR …ASBURY FOUNDATION — $27,500 · OtherASBURY FOUNDATIONUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION — $23,744 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNI…PRESSLEY RIDGE — $15,000 · OtherPRESSLEY RIDGEFAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherFAITH UNITED METHODIST CHUR…Pittsburgh Soccer in the Community — $14,600 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC — $12,500 · OtherCHABAD HOUSE ON CAMPUS INC — $10,373 · OtherPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL — $10,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY AT HOLY FAMILY MANOR — $10,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS — $10,000 · Other+5 more — $27,500 · Other+5 moreVISABILITY — $40,000 · Human ServicesVISABILITYREDSTONE PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE — $30,000 · Human ServicesREDSTONE PRESBYTERIAN…LOCALLY GROWN — $30,000 · Human ServicesLOCALLY GROWNTHE WATSON INSTITUTE — $22,500 · Human ServicesTHE WATSON INSTITUTECHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES I…MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL — $20,000 · Human ServicesMERAKEY ALLEGHENY VAL…THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $18,724 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE…RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesRANKIN CHRISTIAN CENT…RUTHS WAY INC — $11,016 · Human ServicesSmall Seeds Development Inc — $10,496 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $37,733 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $30,000 · PhilanthropyDREAM PARTNERSHIP — $30,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $9,346 · EducationPhase 4 Learning Center Inc — $7,802 · EducationAllegheny County Library Association — $5,000 · EducationSOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC — $14,063 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION — $11,000 · Community Improvement
Health$488,910Other$276,217Human Services$217,736Philanthropy$67,733Education$52,148Arts & Culture$44,063Community Improvement$11,000

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 budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION — $386,910 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetVISABILITY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $37,733 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDSTONE PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLDIERS & SAILORS MEMORIAL HALL — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLOCALLY GROWN — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDREAM PARTNERSHIP — $30,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetASBURY FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION — $23,744 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE — $22,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $18,724 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES — $17,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHAIR PEACE CHARITIES — $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESSLEY RIDGE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC — $14,063 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMISSION VISION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC — $12,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRUTHS WAY INC — $11,016 over 1y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION — $11,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSmall Seeds Development Inc — $10,496 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFACE2FACE HEALING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY AT HOLY FAMILY MANOR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHorses With Hope Inc — $9,500 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $9,346 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhase 4 Learning Center Inc — $7,802 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHosanna Industries Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…The United Way of Sou…The Grable FoundationThe H Glenn Sample Jr…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…Pittsburgh Penguins F…Staunton Farm Foundat…Richard King Mellon F…Eqt FoundationUpmc Group
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA49.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · The H Glenn Sample Jr Md Memorial Fund · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Upmc Group

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 J Samuel & Rose y Cox 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 44 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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