· Public charity
Jefferson Regional Foundation
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k20 grants · $503k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH | $200,000 |
| ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK | $140,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH | $125,000 |
| WOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT | $125,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIP FOR AGING | $125,000 |
| THE MON VALLEY INITIATIVE | $125,000 |
| LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER | $115,000 |
| SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS DBA THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $100,000 |
| LITERACY PITTSBURGH | $100,000 |
| CASA SAN JOSE | $100,000 |
| ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK | $100,000 |
| BHUTANESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | $80,000 |
| MAPLE UNIFIED STUDENT ACADEMY INC | $80,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Jefferson Regional Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $817k 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
- SHSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES5× · 2017–2025 · $790k · revenue +105%
- MPMELTING POT MINISTRIES6× · 2017–2024 · $725k · revenue +224% · 47% of their budget
- LPLITERACY PITTSBURGH7× · 2018–2025 · $677k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- CLCarnegie Library of Homesteadone grant, 2020 · $260k · revenue +13%
- PCPrimary Care Health Services Incone grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue +3%
- TBTHE BLESSING BOARDone grant, 2022 · $200k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Victims and the most unlike its peers is Anna Middleton Waite Learning Center. 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 22 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 180 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 MON VALLEY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MELTING POT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BHUTANESE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE BLESSING BOARD ↗
- Who funds Footbridge for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGON'S DEN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIP FOR AGING ↗
- Who funds THE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURE OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS BREAKFAST CLUB ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Best of the Batch Foundation ↗
- Who funds Allegheny County Library Association ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds Gwens Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Library of Homestead ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LINKS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Primary Care Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SISTERS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & DEAF SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION POINT PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SOLUTIONS PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRYING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY'S PGH ↗
- Who funds Maple Unified Student Academy 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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Upmc Group · Fisa Foundation · McElhattan 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 Jefferson Regional 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.
- Side Project 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.