How much does Kittenbrink Family Foundation give?

Kittenbrink Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $247,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Kittenbrink Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (78%), Religion (9%), Philanthropy (5%).

Who are Kittenbrink Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pittsburgh Behavioral Services Inc ($1.5M), Kingdom Bound Project Inc ($65k), Allegheny Center Christian and Missionary Alliance Church ($35k).

Does Kittenbrink Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kittenbrink Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kittenbrink Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Kittenbrink Family Foundation based?

Kittenbrink Family Foundation is based in PA.

Kittenbrink Family Foundation

Kittenbrink Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kittenbrink Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$247k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$202k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.5MReligion$183kPhilanthropy$104kEmployment$65kHuman Services$40kEducation$18kCommunity Improvement$5kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $24k
$10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$50k–250k1 grant · $202k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 15 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%

+15%

Still filing today

47%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

PB
PITTSBURGH BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +371%
MM
MCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +42%
US
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE MCGUIRE MEMORIAL HOME
2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +11%

Funded once

CO
CHURCH OF ASSUMPTION
one grant, 2017 · $15k
SE
SOUTH EAST ASIA PRAYER CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $10k
LL
LEAVING LEGACIES FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -86%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

St Mary's University

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.

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Saint Vincent College

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…

Education

Geneva College

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.

Education

Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

—

Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education

St Francis College

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.

Education

Bethany College

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.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

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)

Education

Mcauley Ministries

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…

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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

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…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knights of Columbus Charities Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

16/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$1,518,677Other$320,175Philanthropy$69,020Religion$19,000Education$16,000Human Services$13,110Crime & Legal$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kittenbrink Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kittenbrink Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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