· Private foundation
Kittenbrink Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $202k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSBURGH BEHAVORIAL SERVICES | $201,500 |
| KINGDOM BOUND MINISTRIES INC | $12,000 |
| ERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHENY COUNTY ALLIANCE CHURCH | $8,000 |
| EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| MANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SEAPC | $1,000 |
| EAST UNION PRES CHURCH | $500 |
| NEST | $500 |
| SHALER LIBRARY | $500 |
| BREAD OF LIFE FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
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 (FY21–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- PBPITTSBURGH BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +371%
- MMMCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +42%
- USUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE MCGUIRE MEMORIAL HOME2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF ASSUMPTIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- SESOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- LLLEAVING LEGACIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -86%
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Saint vincent college is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the catholic faith, the heritage of benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning. its mission is to…
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Teaching and learning from the mission of bethany college. central to this is providing a liberal arts education for students, including the preperation of professionals, in an atmosphere of study, work, and service.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
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. mcauley ministries is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knights of Columbus Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leaving Legacies Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 55 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 PITTSBURGH BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM BOUND PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM BOUND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE MCGUIRE MEMORIAL HOME ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEAVING LEGACIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTINA SPIRITUAL RENEWAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Pebble Beach Company Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
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 · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Kittenbrink Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% 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.
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