· Private foundation
Leaving Legacies 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WOUNDED WARRIORS | $96,652 |
| SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $30,000 |
| SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $14,000 |
| SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $12,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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
NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $408k · revenue +3%- ACANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +13%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- TTTHE TUG MCGRAW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $191k · revenue -59% · 78% of their budget
- TGTHE GUY FIERI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $166k · revenue +121% · 50% of their budget
- AGA GLIMMER OF HOPE INCone grant, 2019 · $111k · revenue -5% · 28% of their budget
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.
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…
Fund awareness and research for sarcoma
The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…
To raise awareness of the prevention of melanoma
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
To assist and empower all post 9/11 veterans and their families from the tri-state area, regardless if they have been wounded or have been deployed, with our various programs thus, leading them to a successful and enriched life.
The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.
The mission of the medical & health sciences foundation is to integrate private fundraising for the entire academic medical center which comprises the six health sciences schools of the university of pittsburgh, upmc, upmc hillman cancer…
At the phillips-amick foundation for cancer research, we envision a future where medical breakthroughs are commonplace and accessible to all. we strive to make a positive impact on the lives of patients and their families through our work…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dying Defiantly Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 47 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 NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TUG MCGRAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GUY FIERI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A GLIMMER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CADEN INGRAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMERON HEYWARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DYING DEFIANTLY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT K9 HERO ↗
- Who funds TIKVA CORP ↗
- Who funds Soldier's Wish ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds With God All Things Are Possible ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWP INC dba SHADOW WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds MCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Best of the Batch Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WE WILL NEVER FORGET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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 United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · Steelers Charities · Centimark Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Leaving Legacies 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.
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% 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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