· Private foundation
Lauren and Adam Sufrin 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
82% of Lauren and Adam Sufrin Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Pittsburgh, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Lauren and Adam Sufrin Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $290k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $252k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PITTSBURGH | $102,394 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $100,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $50,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $10,000 |
| SITKA FINE ARTS CAMP | $5,000 |
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA RACE CLUB | $5,000 |
| LAWRENCE COUNTY YOUNG GUNS | $2,500 |
| BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $2,500 |
| LAURI ANN WEST COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| NEW CENTERVILLE RURAL VFC | $1,000 |
| SOMERSET AREA AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| COOPER-SIEGEL COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME ANIMAL PROJECT | $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 (FY20–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST7× · 2018–2024 · $251k · revenue +6%
- SHSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION4× · 2018–2022 · $161k · revenue +133%
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE4× · 2020–2023 · $42k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TMTisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of NYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IAINTERLOCHEN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +51%
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.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
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…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
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.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
Bike pittsburgh is transforming our streets to make biking and walking commonplace for all pittsburghers in order to improve our quality of life and reduce the harmful effects of car dependence in our communities.
Pittsburgh center for creative reuse inspires creativity, conservation, and community engagement through reuse.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
Membership organization formed to help tech companies succeed through a proven platform of business development, talent retention, government relations, and visibility services. companies at all growth stages use the pittsburgh technology…
Phlf works within a 250-mile radius of pittsburgh, pennsylvania to: identify and save historically significant places; renew historic neighborhoods, towns, and urban areas; preserve historic farms and historically designated landscapes;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is New Centerville & Rural Volunteer Fire Company. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 58 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds SARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds STEEL CITY ROWING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA RACE CLUB ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COUNTY YOUNG GUNS ↗
- Who funds Fox Chapel Area Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest ↗
- Who funds PROUD HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET AREA AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Preservation Pittsburgh ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HIGHLANDS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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 · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Eqt Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · The Benter Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family 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 Lauren and Adam Sufrin 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.