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Leigh Tison Charitable Trust

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.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Youth Development$67kEducation$61kHuman Services$54kReligion$34kHealth$25kHousing & Shelter$22kEnvironment$18kCommunity Improvement$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$321k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER PGH COUNCIL BSA$2,000
WESTERN PA SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$2,000
YMCA$2,000
UNITED WAY OF SWPA$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
YWCA$2,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMNTY FOOD BANK$2,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN PA$2,000
THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE$1,500
BETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$1,000
LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER$1,000
HOMELESS CHILDRENS EDUCATION FUND$1,000
RONALD McDONALD HOUSE$1,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$1,000
BETHLEHEM HAVEN$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $28k) 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.

area typical 9%CASA SAN JOSE: $500 → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $500 → 11%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%CASA SAN JOSE: $500 → 11%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $500 → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%BLESSING BOARD: $500 → 11%BLESSING BOARD: $500 → 11%BLESSING BOARD: $500 → 11%BETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%YMCA: $2k → 11%YMCA: $2k → 11%YMCA: $2k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $1k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $1k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $1k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $1k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $1k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $1k → 11%FOCUS PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%FOCUS PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%FOCUS PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $500 → 11%FOCUS PITTSBURGH: $500 → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $300 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$329k · 55 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
2

Total granted

$329k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

53%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TP
    THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +37%
  • TC
    THE CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +73%
  • TP
    The Pittsburgh Project
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PS
    PA SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • JT
    Journey To Normal Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $500

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

04Your field

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.

1
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services
2
Young Women's Christian Association Greater Pittsburgh

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…

Human Services
3
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
4
Girls Inc of Greater Pittsburgh

Girls inc of greater pittsburgh empowers girls to imagine a broader future through a curriculum grounded on female role models delivered by college women mentors, who are themselves mentored by professional women.

Human Services
5
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

8
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

9
The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…

Human Services
10
Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance

Gpca's mission is to break the cycle of generational proverty by ensuring equitable distribution of the resources for vulnerable children, families, and communities. our vision is to be philadelphia's catalyst for community empowerment and…

Human Services
11
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
12
Community Justice Project

To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr20%30%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr20%30%20–35yr16%31%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
8%
764/9,872

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.

04the grantee network

33 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 62 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MENTORING PARTNERSHIP — $22,278 · OtherMENTORING PARTNERSHIPWESTERN PA CONSERVANCY — $18,000 · OtherWESTERN PA CONSERVANCYGREATER PGH COUNCIL BSA — $15,804 · OtherGREATER PGH COUNCIL BSAUNITED WAY OF SWPA — $11,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN PA — $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $9,500 · OtherUPMC — $9,500 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL — $8,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $8,000 · OtherWOMENS CENTER SHELTER — $8,000 · OtherSERVING SENIORS SAN DIEGO — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA — $8,000 · Other+27 more — $76,418 · Other+27 moreBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH — $6,800 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM…YMCA OF THE ROSES — $6,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF T…Larkin Street Youth Services — $4,000 · Human ServicesLarkin St…THE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE LATIN…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED W…FOCUS NORTH AMERICA — $2,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS NOR…LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE BLESSING BOARD — $1,500 · Human ServicesCASA SAN JOSE — $1,500 · Human ServicesBETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $1,000 · Human ServicesFAME — $8,000 · EducationEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $4,000 · EducationMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $2,691 · EducationPACE SCHOOL — $2,418 · EducationTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $17,500 · PhilanthropyHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND — $4,500 · PhilanthropyThe Pittsburgh Project — $13,500 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION — $3,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT — $2,500 · Community ImprovementTHE CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC — $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDSVOICE — $8,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$221,000Human Services$28,300Education$25,109Philanthropy$22,000Community Improvement$19,000Youth Development$14,000Crime & Legal$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC — $14,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Pittsburgh Project — $13,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetKIDSVOICE — $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFAME — $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH — $6,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND — $4,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRYING TOGETHER — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $2,691 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACE SCHOOL — $2,418 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS NORTH AMERICA — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR — $1,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE BLESSING BOARD — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJourney To Normal Inc — $500 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
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 THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds The Pittsburgh Project
  • Who funds KIDSVOICE
  • Who funds FAME
  • Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES
  • Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND
  • Who funds TRYING TOGETHER
  • Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services
  • Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC
  • Who funds NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION
  • Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT
  • Who funds PACE SCHOOL

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA38.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Massey Charitable Trust · McElhattan Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Centimark Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Pittsburgh Child Guidance 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 Leigh Tison Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America21% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Leigh Tison Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Leigh Tison Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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