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Magovern Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$290kEducation$160kRecreation & Sports$135kReligion$105kEmployment$100kInternational$50kEnvironment$25kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK$25,000
SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL$25,000
IGNATIAN SOLIDARITY NETWORK$20,000
COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH$15,000
STEEL CITY SQUASH$10,000
DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE$10,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$10,000
AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GROUNDED STRATEGIES: $25k → 11%DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE: $10k → 10%AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10k → 17%IGNATIAN SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $20k → 17%THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $15k → 11%DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE: $10k → 10%AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10k → 17%THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $10k → 11%DOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE: $25k → 10%AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10k → 17%THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $10k → 11%DOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE: $25k → 10%AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10k → 17%ELLIS MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10k → 11%DOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE: $25k → 10%AMERICAN FDN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10k → 17%ASPINWALL RIVERFRONT PARK: $25k → 11%DOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE: $10k → 10%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 17%ASPINWALL RIVERFRONT PARK: $25k → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10k → 17%SURGICORPS INTL: $25k → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE: $10k → 17%ASPINWALL RIVERFRONT PARK: $25k → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10k → 17%SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 11%CUREPSP: $10k → 17%ASPINWALL RIVERFRONT PARK: $25k → 11%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $25k → 11%ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $10k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$820k · 11 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$820k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+37%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • CK
    COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH
    7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • AR
    Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +69%
  • EM
    EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • GS
    GROUNDED STRATEGIESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +37%
  • CC
    CHOW CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • EM
    ELLIS MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
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…

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2
Sustainable Pittsburgh

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.

Environment
3
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation

The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.

Philanthropy
6
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
7
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
8
Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh

The spectroscopy society of pittsburgh is organizaed to promote the increase in knowledge of spectroscopy, to promote the dissemination of such knowledge, and to promote the cooperation of workers in the field of spectroscopy.

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9
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
10
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Global Solutions Pittsburgh

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steel City Squash Inc; the most unlike its peers is Curepsp 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 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK: $200,000 · OtherALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORKDOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE: $85,000 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPEDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE: $20,000 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE+3 more: $30,000 · Other+3 moreEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUN…STEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $35,000 · EducationSTEEL CITY SQUASH INCTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $35,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMYDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $30,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF TH…Ignatian Solidarity Network: $20,000 · EducationIgnatian Solidarity Netwo…COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $100,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY KIT…GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsAspinwall Ri…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $80,000 · HealthAMERICAN FO…CUREPSP INC: $10,000 · HealthCUREPSP INCSURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · InternationalGROUNDED STRATEGIES: $25,000 · Environment
Other$335,000Education$205,000Food & Nutrition$105,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Health$90,000International$50,000Environment$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $100,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDED STRATEGIES: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetIgnatian Solidarity Network: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCUREPSP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
  • Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
  • Who funds SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds STEEL CITY SQUASH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDED STRATEGIES ↗
  • Who funds Ignatian Solidarity Network ↗
  • Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗

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…Richard King Mellon F…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Magovern Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Magovern Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 18 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-PF 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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