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Joella P Bane Trust #39929-3

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$66kEducation$45kHealth$20kYouth Development$16kReligion$13kCivil Rights$10kEmployment$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$13,991
Median grant
1
States reached
$373k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAZI ADOPTION AND FAMILY SERVICE$13,991
CRAWFORD COUNTY CASA INC$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%DON'T STOP DREAMIN: $8k → 9%PAULINE AUBERLE FOUNDATION: $17k → 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 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.

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The Children's Institute Parent Company

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

Education
2
Parent Education and Advocacy Leadership Center

The mission of the peal center is to educate and empower families to ensure that children, youth and young adults with disabilities and special health care needs lead rich, active lives as full members of their schools and communities.

Education
3
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
4
Pennsylvania Women Work

The mission of pennsylvania women work is to empower women to advance in their careers and achieve self-sufficiency through life-changing career development programs and mentorship.

Human Services
5
Potential Inc

Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.

Human Services
6
Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh

Cafe momentum pittsburgh transforms young lives by equipping the community's most at-risk youth with life skills, education and employment opportunities to help them achieve their full potential.

Crime & Legal
7
Corporate Alliance for Drug Education

Organization's mission: the mission of cadekids is to promote children's potential for growth through comprehensive, school-based and community-based youth development and support programs that are begun at an early age and are designed to…

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Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute

Ppi is operated solely by penn state health and is dedicated to providing exceptional clinical care, advancing diverse educational opportunities for the next generation of behavioral health specialists, fostering impactful research, and…

Health
9
The Children's Home of Pittsburgh

The children's home of pittsburgh, established in 1893, is an independent, non-profit licensed organization whose purpose is to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services which establish and strengthen the…

Health
10
Pittsburgh Pastoral Institute

To enhance the health of individuals, families, and communities through the interfaith ministry of counseling and education that integrates the resources of faith and the behavioral sciences.

Religion
11
Leadership Pittsburgh

The programs of leadership pittsburgh inc. (lpinc.) provide a continuum of civic engagement opportunities. the programs connect individuals from diverse backgrounds, professional levels, and organizations to learn about and serve the…

Community Improvement
12
The Childrens Institute Foundation

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

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crawford County Casa Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAZI ADOPTION AND FAMILY SERVICE — $13,991 · OtherMAZI ADOPTION AND FAMILY SERVICEAngels Place Inc — $10,000 · OtherAngels Place IncIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEAD PITTSBURGH — $9,704 · OtherLEAD PITTSBURGHUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN — $7,593 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERNYMCA INDIANA COUNTY PA — $5,928 · OtherYMCA INDIANA COUNTY PAWOMEN'S CARE CENTER — $2,950 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $30,753 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUT…THE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT — $4,700 · EducationTHE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS …PAULINE AUBERLE FOUNDATION — $16,835 · Human ServicesPAULINE AUBERLE …DON'T STOP DREAMIN' — $8,233 · Human ServicesDON'T STOP DREAM…PROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC — $10,000 · HealthPROGRAM T…MARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC — $5,000 · HealthMARYLAND …LAURELVILLE MENNONITE CHURCH CENTER — $12,550 · ReligionPROJECT DESTINY INC — $10,763 · Youth DevelopmentCRAWFORD COUNTY CASA INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsCommonwealth Youthchoirs Inc — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$60,166Education$35,453Human Services$25,068Health$15,000Religion$12,550Youth Development$10,763Civil Rights$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $30,753 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAULINE AUBERLE FOUNDATION — $16,835 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLAURELVILLE MENNONITE CHURCH CENTER — $12,550 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT DESTINY INC — $10,763 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAngels Place Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCRAWFORD COUNTY CASA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEAD PITTSBURGH — $9,704 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetDON'T STOP DREAMIN' — $8,233 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMARYLAND NEW DIRECTIONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommonwealth Youthchoirs Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT — $4,700 over 1y, 3.1% 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…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The United Way of Sou…Hillman Family Founda…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Hillman Family Foundations · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Joella P Bane Trust #39929-3 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.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 17 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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