· Private foundation
John and Helen Timo Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARPATHO RUSYN RESEARCH CENTER | $58,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $22,000 |
| 25 CARRICK AVE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| KENWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| CARPATHO RUSYN SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| CARPATHO RUSYN RESEARCH CENTER | $6,000 |
| POSTNATURAL | $5,000 |
| CARPATHO RUSYN SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $1,500 |
| 25 CARRICK AVE PROJECT | $1,500 |
| NEW SUN RISING | $1,500 |
| SISTERS OF THE ORDER OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT | $1,500 |
| CZECHOSLOVAK GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL IN | $1,000 |
| SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| TACONIC MUSIC INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- CRCARPATHO RUSYN SOCIETY5× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +65%
- NSNEW SUN RISING5× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +70%
- TWTAMARACK WILDLIFE CENTER3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +203%
Funded once
- TATHE ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INCone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -8%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- GSGLOBAL SLOVAKIAone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
GlobalPittsburgh is a nonprofit organization with a mission to forge cultural, educational, and business relationships between Western Pennsylvania and the global community through citizen diplomacy.
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
The mission of carnegie library of pittsburgh is to foster literacy, enable exploration, and create connections with all our neighbors. see full description in schedule o.
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
To create a transformative educational experience for students focused on deep disciplinary knowledge; problem solving; leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; and personal health and well-being. to cultivate a transformative…
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 54 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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CARPATHO RUSYN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds 25 CARRICK AVE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SUN RISING ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CZECHOSLOVAK GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds BULGARIAN-MACEDONIAN NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND CUL ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CREATING LANDSCAPES LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Monroeville Public Library Fund ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MAIDAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MCKEES ROCKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TACONIC MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION 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 · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Opportunity Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · McKinney Charitable Foundation · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · McElhattan Foundation · Poise Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · The Heinz Endowments
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 John and Helen Timo 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.
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.
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