· Private foundation
Laura and Jason Rock Family 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $518
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| East Liberty Development Inc | $23,000 |
| Serenity Living Transitional Home | $20,000 |
| Action Housing | $15,000 |
| Pittsburgh Action Against Rape | $518 |
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 (FY18–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518 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
- ELEast Liberty Development Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $89k · revenue -73%
- SLSERENITY LIVING TRANSITIONAL HOME5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue -52% · 94% of their budget
- ACALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- GGGwens Girls Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +99%
- TOThe Opportunity Fundone grant, 2020 · $15k
- UCUJAMAA COLLECTIVEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +324%
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.
PCRG is a coalition of community leaders working for economic justice, equitable investment practices and sufficient financial resources to revitalize communities throughout Allegheny County, PA
To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
Catapult engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer to peer support, wealth building, trauma informed financial counseling & policy advocacy to ensure that communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice & lead…
The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the
The global switchboard stewards a diverse network of people and organizations to promote equitable global engagement in the pittsburgh region. we strive to build a region where all people value diversity, practice empathy, and work…
Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.
To initiate, plan, finance, develop and manage housing development in the City of Pittsburgh, and upon request, in other municipalities with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on such development in low to moderate income census…
By sharing resources and fostering meaningful relationships that strengthen the region's creative community, the greater pittsburgh arts council builds a more resourced, connected, and informed arts sector, empowering artists and arts…
To recruit and train community members to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.
Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Allies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Serenity Living Transitional Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 East Liberty Development Inc ↗
- Who funds SERENITY LIVING TRANSITIONAL HOME ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds Gwens Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds 1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds POISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MELANIN MOMMIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOR GOOD PGH ↗
- Who funds Assemble Inc ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Action Against Rape ↗
- Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR VICTIMS ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
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 · Opportunity Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · Poise Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Fisa Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · McAuley Ministries · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc
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 Laura and Jason Rock 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 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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