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Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pa at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pa

To deliver support with compassion for the educational, financial, and health needs of our diverse communities.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.3MHuman Services$72kFood & Nutrition$40kYouth Development$22kReligion$10kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $58,026, the rows itemized in this filing. The $374,776 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $316,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$58,026
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPMC Presbyterian - Cardiology$58,026
02The need
03

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 (FY22–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Jewish Association on Aging: $20k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 6%JEWISH COMMUNITY CTR OF GREATER PGH: $15k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $15k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $12k → 11%The Friendship Circle: $12k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$370k · 6 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$370k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+28%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • U
    UPMC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $185k
  • U
    UPMC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $88k · revenue -37%
  • JA
    JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue -2%

Funded once

  • U
    UPMC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • EA
    EYE AND EAR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +126%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENTgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +46%
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.

1
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Our vision is a flourishing jewish community where everyone feels included, supported and inspired. in order to accomplish this vision we cultivate resources, connect people and collaborate across the community to live and fulfill jewish…

Philanthropy
3
Pittsburgh Kollel Bais Yitzchok

Advanced rabbinical training in talmud, jewish philosophy, outreach to the community.

—
4
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
5
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

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

Education
6
The Friends of the Pittsburgh Institutions
—
7
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

—
8
Shadyside Hospital of Pittsburgh
—
9
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

—
10
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
11
Jewish Family Service of Greater Harrisburg Inc

To help individuals and families meet life's challenges. jewish family service is a forward-thinking mental health and social service agency dedicated to helping people achieve their full potential while honoring choice, diversity, and…

Health
12
Pittsburgh Jewish Women's League for Taharath Hamishpocho (Family Purity)

To maintain and foster the jewish traditions of family purity through the operation of a ritularium.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Association On Aging; the most unlike its peers is The Friendship Circle 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 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. 12 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPMC: $1,000,000 · OtherUPMCUPMC: $184,676 · OtherUPMC+4 more: $43,760 · OtherUPMC: $88,026 · HealthUPMCEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthEYE AND EAR…ALLIES FOR HEALTH WELLBEING: $7,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesOUR GIVING KITCHEN PITTSBURGH INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionLIFE MALE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 · EducationTHE DRAGON'S DEN: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,228,436Health$150,026Human Services$84,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$10,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUPMC: $88,026 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetOUR GIVING KITCHEN PITTSBURGH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFE MALE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DRAGON'S DEN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALLIES FOR HEALTH WELLBEING: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPittsburgh Action Against Rape: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 Founda…The United Way of Sou…The Fine FoundationJewish Federation of …Upmc GroupThe Philip Chosky Cha…Giant Eagle FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Staunton Farm Foundat…Opportunity FoundationMarstine Family Found…The Sheila Reicher Fi…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Fine Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Upmc Group · The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Marstine Family Foundation · The Sheila Reicher Fine 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 Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pa. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pa?

    Find your warmest path to Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pa through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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